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1-Set up telephone counselling as an immediate mental health support offer

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Maintaining, reclaiming and investing in more public spaces available for young people

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Maintaining, reclaiming and investing in more public spaces available for young people

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4- The pandemic showed that public spaces are safer for people to gather together. Therefore we want to make them more accessable to young people, engagine public administration locally extending to the European level.

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3-Implement support to youth work(ers) as soon as possible

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8-Retain Youth Workers and bring newcomers by developing a setting that highlights the elements of fun and professionalism of the sector.

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3-With a horizontal approach, current and upcoming policy processes and YW linked outcomes get to develop a part that builds on experiences and learning outcomes of YW and Educators (i.e. EYWA, YW platform, CoE recommendation on YW-2017)

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Reflect on participatory approaches during times of crisis

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Reflect on participatory approaches during times of crisis

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7/D-What would need to happen during times of crisis to maintain participatory approaches even during such times?

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Developing and preserving the Neighborhood 

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Developing and preserving the Neighborhood 

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4- The pandemic made young people (re)discover their neighborhoods hence this should be additionally supported (developing/reviving municipalism?)

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8- How volunteering becomes a reality in moments of crisis and how it boosts solidarity and social empowerment.

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Resources and material co-sharing online spaces 

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Resources and material co-sharing online spaces 

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10- Resources Map

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Comes from almost all groups – here using the example of Group 10

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6- Include Recovery as a pillar of the platform

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- Which stories can we tell that highlight the importance of this action?
- Which narratives are pandemic/crisis specific?
- What would happen if this action was not adapted?
- What would be the best case scenario if this action was adapted?
- What would be the positive ripple effects that can be described?

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1-Set up national and European Resilience Funds for Youth Work

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Provide digital and technical infrastructure

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Provide digital and technical infrastructure

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9-Digital transformation needs infrastructure and experts' support. We assume that everyone can follow the digital era, but this is not the case for all people.

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The telephone counselling helps many young people to go through their crisis and to develop resilience.
prevention of development of mental disorders including addictions and obesity
young people who overcome the crisis would start to be role models and to help others in similar situations

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If this action would be adapted, the value of volunteering can be shown to people in times of individualisation. It has a lot of benefits for future life and career paths of the volunteers, like developing skills and competencies, getting to know themselves, making connections (local and international) and gaining experience. Of course with more volunteers more work can be done on the important topics like climate change, work with people in need of help, spending quality time and other constructive activities. It also breaks stigma and stereotypes, since it can be a group of a lot of different people.

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We are talking about gaining competences, building a network, making friends... but first and foremost it's all about having fun. It is the start for all other things. If there's no fun, the rest isn't there either.  It's like in school: if children don't like coming, they won't learn. Having fun is not just about parties (although there should be), fun is in many things: making policy together, contributing and seeing that it works, celebrating successes, putting together a game and seeing that children are completely absorbed in it, doing what you love to do (while you may not even be good at it...). No fun, no volunteers, no youthwork

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the importance of volunteers for themselves and for our organisation

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the importance of volunteers for themselves and for our organisation

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in our organisation (flemisch service for playgroundwork -VDS) young people experience policy at a high level.  It are these young people, volunteers, who we recruit on local playgrounds and who often participated in these playgrounds themselves as children.  (Bottom up) There is a growth path and there are learning opportunities for young people to develop competences.  But it is also a place to make friends, having fun, a safe haven from which to make mistakes.  (we have 300 volunteers in VDS, more than 20,000 on the local playgrounds throughout Flanders and Brussels). We can see young people grow up and develop through volunteering.

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See example of treasure chest in Iceland.

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Exchanging competentes it is a way to improve the quality of youth work;
Active agents of inclusion in order to fight discrimination, reaching marginalised young people;
Recovery actions providing support by sharing the best practices;
Online youth work giving acess to online courses (MOOC);

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What to do - Good examples and stories to highlight

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What to do - Good examples and stories to highlight

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- youth workers burn out, are not motivated and cannot continue their work any longer.
- youth workers are not trained and not capable to overcome the new challenges they face: digitalization, drug use, mental health issues, school dropout, youth unemployment
- lack of training (physical and mental) to a lack of capabilities and social competences
- valued of youth work is not recognized
- youth health and youth workers heath are interconnected, if one is bad it influences the other. If youth workers are not healthy, they cannot help young people and the quality of the services decreases. If young people are not healthy it stresses youth workers.
- the added value of youth work is not recognized and not sufficiently supported, youth work is neglected and prevented from having possible effects on education, employment, wellbeing, social skills and various other capacities of young people.

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What would happen if this action was not adapted

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What would happen if this action was not adapted

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Youth not finding out about possibilites of volunteering would result in missed opportunities for them as well as for the organizations. Not promoting volunteering would waste potential enrichment for both parts.
Especially because the pandemic young people are not informed about possibilites of volunteering abroad (European Solidarity Corps).

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Youth workers need to be flexible, resilient and adaptive to new situations. That requires different forms of support: emotional, practical, financial, organizational. Keeping youth workers and training them is the essence. Youth workers were often the first contact for young people, by not supporting them, the quality of services for prevention etc declines. Youth workers are not mental health professionals but need different forms of support to build up their own resilience .

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✅ Defining youth work in 2022, can be sometimes frustrating. It is important to work to establish an act/law so it is clearly defined.
✅ A common path to become a youth worker and to be recognized as a professional.
✅ EU Youth Strategy 2019-27 should link with country National Youth Policy.
✅ CoE 2017 already had outlined legal and political support, sustainable funding, cross-sectoral cooperation, framework and training...so why in 2022 we are still talking about the same things❓
✅ Start asking WHY youth work and not what is youth work.
✅ Pre-pandemic needs vs post-pandemic needs
✅ Ukraine effects

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Less burning out youth workers.
Better support for young people in difficult situations (drug, mental health etc)
Stronger resilience of youth workers and youth work in general.
prevent school dropout, drug use, etc from youngsters.
Recognition, development and visibility of youth work.
Field of youth work will be more attractive for new professionals because they know they’re not left alone and have different supportive instruments and structures.

The ripple effects depend heavily on what actual support measures are implemented.

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- support youth workers in adapting to new situations, methods, environments as was necessary during the pandemic (continue the shift to the digital world after the pandemic)
- increase the personal capabilities to use social media to reach more people and digital tools in General
- Provide technical Infrastructure to youth workers
- Build up the personal resilience to cope with stress, crises, etc: resilience Trainings to youth workers and youngsters to prevent them from burning out
- youth work was forgotten in the pandemic: increase visibility and recognition now
- allow youth workers to work in teams to support each other, share the work, Prevent mental stress, motivate each other and share experiences
- youth workers are not psychologists: they can provide a first contact and delegate young people to the right services, but they need networking and support structure to tackle mental health issues of young people together (contact person or structure 24/7)
- mentoring for newcomers to share experiences and contacts and knowledge
- Professional supervision for youth workers to support them (practical support and emotional support)
- give youth workers the possibility to go in the dialogue with policy makers on all levels to allow them to express their interests and needs and allow them to lobby for that
- recognition: saying, showing, stable funding, formalizing and institutionalizing youth work in laws
- proving new opportunities (also crosssectional, opportunities of training on the field etc) to enter the field in order to prevent a lack of newcomers

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Motivated youth workers, capable of doin what is expected from them.
Provision of safe spaces to do youth work.
Have approachable youth workers that are healthy, can cope with new situations and have the right mindset.
Youth work can be provided face to face and will not be restricted again in the pandemic as its added value is recognized. Direct work is essential to emotional and mental and social wellbeing.
Basic conditions for providing your work need to be met first.
Recognition of the value of youth work as a frontline service increases.
Lessons from the pandemic will be learned.
Young people will be reached again and through youth work, included in society and supported in their development.

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WHY youth work❓
✅ Less youth unemployment rate ➡️ Equip young people with the necessary skills and ensure a smooth transition through specific programs.
✅ More and different well-being support in different contexts i.e. schools, youth cafes, youth centres, religious organisations, scouts etc... ➡️ Introduce youth work in different and/or new contexts.
✅ Increase in practical careers i.e. mechanics, construction etc... ➡️ Implement/increase programs enjoyed by young people related to manual work.
✅ More services = wider reach of young people = big numbers ➡️ According to the National Youth Policy, check which areas are lacking and target those.
✅ More reference persons for young people in times of crisis ➡️ Youth workers seen as mentors and introduce programs to support young people and refer them to other entities if need be.
✅ More fruitful collaborations between different professionals i.e. youth workers working hand in hand with councillors, guidance, teachers, career advisors, psychologists etc... ➡️ Links with the above point.
✅ Reach more young people considered as NEET ➡️ Implement specific programs to decrease NEET numbers.
✅ Reach certain needs better while doing detached Youth Work / street work ➡️ invest in proper Detached Youth Work.
✅ Wider list of skills developed in young people ➡️ through needs analysis and programs offered according to needs analysis.
✅ More input through projects within the community ➡️ Involve young people to take action within community ➡️ cleanups, maintain skateparks etc...

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Its important to make experience and skills gained by volunteering visible and recognized in a concrete way. For example the digital youthpass certificate which documents approved learned skills and achievements.

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Sharing stories gives recognition. People do not know what they can give and gain from volunteering. Stories touch something in people, they increase empathy, curiosity and compassion, which facts can not.
During the pandemic, volunteers found that digital volunteer training was a great way to connect and stay in touch with people.
We can see a great example of importance of volunteering in the current Ukraine crisis, in which situation the work from the volunteers was of great importance.

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ripple effect of more young people doing volunteer work

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ripple effect of more young people doing volunteer work

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There is an effect of local > national > european and and the other way around.  young people who do voluntary work at these levels always take experiences with them. Not only for themselves but also for the people where they stay, the organization in which they work. They build communities and networks, it opens blinders and creates opening minds, de-individualisation, changing beliefs about certain (social) groups, add new ideas... it ensures change individually, in teams & in society

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Putting a face on it - These kind of inspiring stories of being a volunteer: the story of zarghuna

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Putting a face on it - These kind of inspiring stories of being a volunteer: the story of zarghuna

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More stories of volunteers:
They tell what's de value of being volunteer
https://www.speelplein.net/vrijwilligerworden

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Zarghuna - anderstalige nieuwkomers in de animatorenploeg

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Youth work is essential for the well-being, development and health of young people and cannot be as neglected as during the pandemic ever again. The added value of youth work needs to be recognized on the societal and political level, by doing so, it will increase the recognition of the sector to motivate and make it attractive for newcomers and young people alike.

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- lack of services for young people
- being isolated
- unpredictable future / no perspective
- disrupted relations and structures
- paralysed by fear
- overrestriction

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The importance of not being able to be together and giving the chance to shift into the digital and online during the pandemic;
If this action was not taken the acess to the activities would not be possible compromising significantly the participation;
The Best case scenario would be to succeed during the pandemic period and having the chance to combine it afterwards.

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Our best case scenario and positive effects

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Our best case scenario and positive effects

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The Paretó-effective distribution of resources in economy :)

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young people would remain lonely and isolated
heir crisis would increase with potential risks of serious mental health issues
potentially leading young people to school dropout
fueling the situation of young with fewer opportunities and living remote

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What would happen if this action was not adapted?

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What would happen if this action was not adapted?

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If fun is not emphasized and promoted in youth work the field seems less approachable and doesn’t attract as many young people as it could. Not promoting the fun in the work is a huge missed opportunity to gain new workers who are motivated by positive experiences and a wish to be part of a community.

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The Youth work recovery conference in Helsinki is a good example of how fun can be implemented in youth work. Meeting and connecting with people (while doing constructive work) is of great importance in this field of work. It is also a great opportunity to get to know other cultures and expanding your horizons.

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Technological capacitation of the users;
Online repositorium and backup acess;
Youth with fewer opportunities will have better access to digital content, which will increase their participation.

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Lara, 17, lives in a small appartment with her parents, during the lockdown school is closed and the youth café/centre as well. She is always alone in her room. Sports was forbidden. After she spent hours online with her friends and in school lessons, more and more friends drop out and she feels she has to switch off. Her parents are working in the home office and everybody is getting on each others nerves.  Parents have no time to talk to her. She feels depressed and anxious. She is often crying for no obvious reason. There is no one to talk to, but she heard about professional help systems. It`s free of charge and it`s always available. So she dials the number of the telephone counselling. It offers her the necessary privacy and safe space ...

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The project was taken on permanently as authorities recognised its value and nature.
The project is replicated and broadend to the wider community and age brackets.
The project bridged over to other countries.

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Organize some fun activities and gatherings for potential youthwokers and simultaneously use that for sharing information about the field. Fun could be used as a ‘a hook’ for people to join the programmes, activities, groups.
Do not have fun only within the organisation but share the fun also outside of one.