Youth Moving

<< Background >>YOUTH MOVING aimed to enhance care leavers participation in democratic life in Europe, through their empowerment as active citizens, especially addressing how to connect with, express their views and be heard by stakeholders in the alternative care field. For children and young people who have experienced living in alternative care, separated from their biological family, the process of growing up is extremely demanding because they are often left without formal support and a functional social network. The aim and activities of this project were focused on strengthening the competencies of people working with youth from alternative care, to encourage youth to actively participate in society, to overcome limitations and to provide opportunities for young people to express their opinion. All of the above empowered young people from alternative care and we advocated for the improvement of the entire alternative care system, because the voice of those who know their reality and problems the best are now heard by people who work with them and by policy-makers.<< Objectives >>1. Investigate the involvement of young people from alternative care in democratic processes in society.2. Raise awareness about the need of inclusion of young people from alternative care in democratic processes in society.3. Promote international cooperation of people working with youth from alternative care.4. Promote cross-sectoral cooperation of organizations and institutions working with youth from alternative care in representing the views of youth in the society<< Implementation >>Through the project we produced 2 project results and activities related to them:PR1) Developed curriculum of workshops to encourage young people to actively participate in society1. Conducted research on the involvement of youth from alternative care in democratic processes through desk research and interviews2. Investigated good EU practice examples for active involvment of youth from alternative care in democratic processes in the community3. Developed training materials for youth workers, based on research conducted with the aim of encouraging and teaching young people to get involved in democratic processes in the community *** after development of the material, an LTT activity was organized - training in which youth workers and young people from alternative care participated, and where developed materials were implemented4. Translation to all partner languages5. Pilot training materials on one group of young people in each partner country6. DisseminationPR2) Developed video material for raising public awareness 1. Preparation of the video production: finding suitable stories, creating scenario2. Filming of the video materials3. Editing the video materials4. Translation to all partner languages5. Dissemination<< Results >>Youth Moving project produced 2 project results:PR1) Curriculum of workshops aimed at encouraging the participation of young people from alternative care in the democratic processes of societyPR2)Video material for raising public awareness and policy makers awareness about the importance of participation of young people from alternative care in democratic processesProject benefited more than 300 people through:1. Empowering organizations involved in the project to actively advocate that views of young people from alternative care in designing the services they need and receive are taken into account2. Enabling partner and associated organizations to share knowledge, insight into good practices and design the most appropriate forms of work with young people from alternative care for their more active role in society and reduction of social isolation3. Expansion of knowledge and competencies of people working with youth from alternative care in the field of active involvement of these young people in democratic processes in society