Ohjaamo centers approach for the needs of youth with fewer opportunities

"<< Objectives >>The Ka2 project ""Ohjaamo centers approach for the needs of youth with fewer opportunities"" aims to: Create tailored multiservice center models based on Finish Ohjaamo centers for young people facing challenging situations and having difficulties entering the labor market. With this project, we want to bring the best youth service and individual intervention practices from Finland to Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, and even beyond. The project duration is 24 months, project budget is 250,000 Euro.<< Implementation >>The project consists of 3 work packages:1. Develop competencies of youth workers from LT, LV, and BG needed to work in multiservice youth centers based on the Ohjaamo model, by organizing study visits and job shadowing in Finland and training courses with Finnish experts2. Pilots multiservice youth centers based on the Ohjaamo model in LT, LV, and BG3. Organize conferences and publicity campaigns in project countries to introduce the Ohjaamo model and project results to youth work communities<< Results >>Expected results are:1. Take over the Finnish expertise and create methodologies and tools needed to pilot and later run activities of multiservice youth centers following the Ohjaamo methodology in LT, LV, and BG2. Train youth workers and other specialists on how to implement individual interventions based on the Ohjaamo model and institutionalize innovative youth work practices from Finland3. Promote the concept of multiservice youth centers in LT, LV, and BG and promote the Ohjaamo model"