TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Katerina Kimovska
“Strengthening competencies of youth workers for reducing unemployment” was training course designed that participants with active and practical methods will be dynamically engaged in the learning process, where they will have the opportunity to enhance skill and gain the competencies necessary to guide and develop activities for increasing the employment competences among the young people with fewer opportunities in their community.
The objectives of the TC are:
To learn how to recognize values and interests, assessing attributes and skills, identifying learning styles and learning strategies, goal setting, planning and tracking progress.
To transfer knowledge for identifying and practicing workplace behaviors most often required by local employers.
Empower young people to work in a team, learn from each other, giving and receiving feedback.
To learn about the local labor markets, educate how to write an effective CV, prepare a clear letter of application, interviewing skills and job search basics.
To lead and educate young people in budgeting, savings, planning skills that can help young people manage their income and expenses.
Promote YiA Programme, providing mobility and volunteering opportunities for young people where they can develop their competencies.
32 youth workers, youth leaders, teachers, educators, facilitators actively involved in youth work from Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Non-formal education methods. In the training was used Work Readiness Ciriculum, which was developed by EDC Macedonia project Youth Employability Project.
The project aims were achieved, the participants got significant knowledge and skills to deal with unemployment in their local realities and to support youth in their daily life.
In this training I was working as a co-trainer, I was supporting main trainer work.