Training Course: "Creating Safer Spaces – Human Rights and Diversity as Foundations in Youth Work" in Finland

Training Course: "Creating Safer Spaces – Human Rights and Diversity as Foundations in Youth Work"
2-5 March 2020 | Helsinki, Finland

After completing the training cource the participants will have more knowledge and understanding on:

- the human rights system both as a set of legal obligations and a tool for change within youth work
- minority stress affecting the everyday life of minority youth
- safer spaces thinking in youth work
- exploring methods that enable youth workers to discuss human rights with young people
- how to support the equal participation of different groups (e.g. trans and non-binary youth and youth with disabilities) in youth work activities

The training will consist of presentations and panels, exercises, visits and dialogue both among the participants and with experts by experience.

The participants will have a possibility to share experiences, ideas, materials and good practices with each other. The participants are encouraged to reflect on their own practices and how they could bring human rights education into their own activities.