16-20/06/2016 - Street Work Study Visit - Cooperation and Practice (Finland)

Street Work Study Visit will give the participants an insight to some practices that rely on encountering young people where they gather, outside the youth houses. Participants take part in the real real youth workers in real situations of their work.

Street Study Visit - Cooperation and Practice is the second part of a street work study visit that took place in Istanbul, Turkey in spring 2015.

The SSV will take a very practical approach to the youth work on the streets. It gives methods to encountering young people on the street and conflict mediation. Participants will pair up with local youth workers in real life situations and see concretely what the outreach youth work is like on two different towns - Jyväskylä and Helsinki - in Finland.

Objectives:
- learn and share good practices in outreach youth work and street work
- familiarise with methods of street mediation and safety procedures in encountering groups of young people on public areas
- reflect on their own practices in outreach youth work

The programme will give a brief presentation of Erasmus+ Youth in Action and participants can contemplate, if The Programme can be used in their work.

The study visit may lead to new partnerships and future projects, but it is not the aim of the activity. The study visit will focus on practical experience and development of skills.

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