Description
In Estonia, there is a need to involve more children and youth at risk in activities provided by youth work organisations. The project therefore aims to increase the systematic participation of young people at risk through quality youth work provision (especially through hobby education and recreation activities). This will be reached through 4 main fields of action: 1. Organizing training and networking activities for those working with youth in hobby education to increase their competences in involving youth at risk systematically in hobby education activities; 2. (Targeted) promotion of hobby education activities to foster involvement of youth at risk in these activities (targeting wider public, parents, teachers, etc.); 3. Support to participation of young people at risk in hobby education activities; 4. Monitoring and communication to wider audience the impact of project activities to youth and those working with youth in hobby education field. The activities implemented with donor partner are job-shadowing of Estonian youth workers to Iceland and an international seminar to be held in Estonia, where partners from Iceland will participate.
Summary of project results
Project HUKK-AP aimed at to increasing the systematic participation of young people at risk through quality youth work provision (especially through hobby education and recreation activities). As a result of 28 months of strategically focused activities to youth workers, hobby education specialists, parents, decision makers and young people at risk the following results were reached: - 3231 young people at risk have taken part in hobby education activities, 1806 of them have been engaged systematically - training activities to support the development of competence for working with young people at risk for 1647 youth workers/hobby education specialists have been organized - 442 parents have been counseled - the activities of the project and the possibilities for youth at risk to engage actively in hobby activities have reached 12 counties out of 15 in Estonia; 69 new regional hobby activities have been created - a system for monitoring the results and the progress of young peoples development in hobby education activities has been created, described as a method and used to monitor the results of the project and measure it’s impact to young people and youth workers involved - the purpose and the outcomes and impact of the project has been introduced through various mediums to 1407 people. The results have been presented to the interest groups, decision makers and to the public.
Summary of bilateral results
In partnership with partners from Iceland and Norway Estonian hobby education specialists have had a chance to get to know how youth work and hobby education activities are organised in Norway and Iceland. Feedback from the participants has been very positive. Visits have given them a chance to widen their perspectives on their everyday work. The possibility to compare approaches to working with young people gave them a chance to notice qualities and possible areas of development in their everyday work. After the visit some of the participant also noted that the visit strengthened their identity as a youth worker and gave them confidence to widen their work area. Another benefit of the visits has been the concrete international cooperation ideas that participants developed during their visits or international partnership building seminar held in Tallinn.