Safety first! - Skills and competencies for youth workers

<< Objectives >>Youth need to feel and be safe for exploring their interests, or expressing their opinions. Without safety no learning, development can happen (Maslow). Settings that do not provide safety, this basic need, will not be effective. Youth workers need to offer physically, emotionally, mentally safe environment to develop skills, to socialise with peers and adults, discover their unique identity. Youth workers need to be informed, trained to offer this. We aim to provide this via various tools<< Implementation >>We are going to share the knowledge and experience of the consortium and based on those develop outcomes useful for our organisations and other youth workers as well. Research, focus group interviews, writing recommendations, running trainings, piloting local educational activities, developing an online platform and awareness raising on social media will happen.<< Results >>Recommendations on safety in youth work (do-s and don't-s, etc.)Training curriculum for youth workers both on mental/emotional and physical safetyOnline platform supporting self-directed learning on our topic providing tools, resources, case studies, background materials, etc.Awareness raising using social media on the importance of safety in youth work and how it is more than calling 112