<< Objectives >>By implementing this project, we aim to achieve several objectives. Firstly, we want to improve the capacity of organizations and youth workers to create a more inclusive environment for young people with ADHD. This will be achieved through the development of a comprehensive Toolkit Material and subsequent Training and Capacity Building activities. Secondly, we want to provide a resource for youth with ADHD in the form of an activity book. Thirdly, we want to raise awareness about ADHD.<< Implementation >>The project activities are designed to improve the capacity of organizations and youth workers in creating an inclusive environment for young people with ADHD. These activities include the Research & Development of Toolkit Material for Youth Workers with a subsequent Training and Capacity Building activity, the development of an activity book for youth with ADHD, a campaign to raise awareness during ADHD awareness month, and communication and dissemination of project results. << Results >>The results of this project will be:1. Development of a comprehensive Toolkit Material for youth workers about young people with ADHD (YOU FOCUS Toolkit)2. Training and Capacity Building for youth workers in order to enhance their skills when working with youth belonging to this disadvantaged group. The training will be led by 2 experts and will be based on the Toolkit Material.3. Creation of an activity book for youth with ADHD4. Raise awareness during ADHD awareness month (October 2024)

"""Keeping youth safe from cyberbullying"" CB project created a positive impact on the persons directly or indirectly involved in proposed activities, resulting in the development and implementation of innovative practices at organizational, local, regional, national and European levels, regarding innovative approaches for addressing vulnerable youth, by providing improved practices in fighting against cyber bullying in online environments. In terms of priorities, CB project developed innovative outputs (O1, O2) and engaged into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities (E1-E5) of existing and newly produced products. As horizontal priority CB project addressed inclusive education, training and youth, actions combating discrimination and segregation by tackling cyber bullying.The second priority of the CB project was promoting high-quality youth work, namely supporting youth workers in developing and sharing effective methods in reaching out to marginalizes young people and in preventing racism and intolerance and any other kind of harmful activities that are known as cyber bullying among youth mainly in online environments. Bullying in schools has been around since schools were created and is a phenomenon of human behavior that is sadly familiar even as administrators, teachers and parents strive to eliminate it. The advent of social media has brought with it a new form of bullying, commonly referred to as cyberbullying or ""electronic aggression"", phenomenon that it is proving to be insidious, damaging and can result in irrevocable tragedies, which is why schools and other educational environments are scrambling to find solutions. Incidents of cyberbullying have increased because the use of social networking sites by youth is virtually universal. Cyberbullying causes deep and lasting damage, the exposure of victims is limitless and thus far more damaging. According to psychologists, the damage inflicted by cyberbullying can last into adulthood causing lifelong issues with low self-esteem, risk for addiction and other problems. Many of these incidents are the result of unchecked cyberbullying attacks on vulnerable students.Thus, CB Project aimed to deeper understand the dynamics of cyber bullying in online environments among youth, develop educational resources for professionals involved in youth activities in order to prevent CB type behaviors, develop youth skills to protect themselves from CB and disseminate findings among educational professionals.Specifically, CB project focused on: promoting positive ways of using technology for social interaction, raise youths’ awareness that they have the right and responsibilities to seek help to resolve cyber-bullying incidents, develop the skills required of them to manage youths’ cyber-bullying behaviour, encourage and help youth to positively use technology for social interaction and participate in cyber-bullying professional development opportunities.CB project results were integrative materials addressed to practitioners for preventing and dealing with this type of behaviors, mostly focused on youth population with “less opportunities”: migrants, refugees (Turkey), persons living with intellectual disabilities and cognitive disorders (Romania), persons suffering from some disorders as personality disorders, eating disorders (Belgium), persons at risk of being marginalized, poverty (Spain). These results will be the used as dissemination materials in 4 multiplier events dedicated to 120 youth, one learning activity dedicated to 40 professional staff and an International Conference addressing 80 teachers, educators, youth workers, counsellors, parents and other people interested in this phenomenon.Results were widely made available over the long term on projects page and group. Open access were given to resources we have developed to stakeholders, youth and everybody interested in the field. All partners ensured that projects innovations become integrated into the practice of own organizations and other relevant stakeholders."

As stated in the application, this project was created to better understand how hate narratives spread through traditional and social media, among other channels; and to design strategies to resist them. In the world of instant communication, we found the need to educate ourselves further as youth workers so we could create a fitting environment for our youth to be able to identify and act against hate narratives.Though we faced many challengues due to the COVID 19 pandemic, our work ethic, our flexibility and our experience with digital youth work allowed us to overcome the problems and create a meaningful and succesful project. We were able to meet all of our goals and a number of extra, high quality outcomes were produced within this projectThe objectives set for this projects were:-To improve the competences of youth workers on the topic of radicalisation, inclusion and empowerment-To promote empowerment of young people with fewer opportunities throughout carrying researches to create needs and interest based empowerment models for youth workers to practice related to hate narratives and radicalisation-To raise awareness on youth workers about hate narratives, radicalisation and empowerment and its implications in youth work-To create innovative empowerment models for the inclusion of young people and create educational material and theoretical framework on social, economical and cultural empowerment-To understand the challenges on inclusion in participating countries and address those challenges through upskilling youth workers on empowerment with the goal of combatting hate narrative and ability to make informed decisions-To qualify youth workers as multipliers and trainers in the field of youth to develop new empowerment models and implement trainings to empower the young peopleThe beneficiaries of this project have been both youth workers and young people. In this project we involved youth professionals and educators from youth organisations as well as formal and non formal education entities, moreover, due to the partner organisations profile, we were able to reach a large number of youth workers from a variety of fields: we've had participants with experience working with migrants, NEETS, refugees, minorities and youngsters with fewer opportunities.As the project developed, several actions and activities were planned and executed involving young people from our local communities. Since the pandemic we've observed a particularly worrying rise of hate speech, not only online (where it grew exponentially), but also in the traditional media, signalling how deep the hate narratives have implanted themselves in our day to day; and as a result of this, several actions were put in motion, such as the Let's Talk project, a dialogue based activity open to youngsters from all around the world interested in sharing opinions and ideas about intercultural awareness, mental health, communication an media, and more. This project was created as a space to allow youngsters to connect during the hardest months of the confinement and find common ground.Our digital magazine, Youth Work Today, our network for youth workers, the Education Umbrella Network; as well as our two Cross-Sectoral Transnational Exchange Projects CSTEPs (view results section in the Beneficiary Project Details page); are also examples of initiatives that have been heavily influenced by this project. We are now more aware than ever that, to be able to put up a fight against hate speech, we need to be able to learn from each other, focus on our similarities and have a space to share ideas and create common goals.Indirectly, we planned to reach the local communities of the partner organisations, as well as local media, institutions and entrepreneurs. Due to the pandemic, we weren't able to have a physical presence in each community, however, because we had to move our actions online, we took advantage of the possibility to widen our reach and allow our influence to move beyond our partnership and all across Europe.Through this project we've established meaningful and lasting relationships with other youth workers, we are now more aware of hate narratives and have a variety of tools, materials and experiences to withstand its growing tendency.

Skills development and improvement of professional qualifications represent a major public health and education challenge. Since the main psychiatric reforms, the reduction of hospital beds, and the development of neuroleptic drugs, patients and users are now able to live alone or with their relatives, far from psychiatric hospitals. They can expect an autonomous life made of social and professional activities, close to the life of any other citizen. The global action plan of the World Health Organization between 2013 and 2020 recommends “the empowerment of users”. The project is based on the improvement of professional practices of social workers who accompany vulnerable groups in their own professional integration. At European level, their qualifications must be adapted to the new economic climate.Besides technical knowledge, this audience must acquire psychosocial skills in order to access and maintain employment on the real labor market instead of being placed in sheltered workshops. Social workers usually haven’t received adequate training for professional integration of people with mental disorder. To adapt the training to the economical environment, we must take into consideration the reality that is faced by companies and create a close partnership with a strong network of managers and well-trained team leaders on the issue of mental health.Furthermore, for those professionals, currently there are not a traced path or guide of good practices in order to cope with an increasingly demanding labour market. The training cursus of social workers could become obsolete in the current labor market conditions, if a upgrading is not included in their training (initial or continuous training).Our project aims to improve qualifications, because the stakes are high for both users with mental disorder, and social structures, which support their employability. Today, the economic context and the labour market are strangled: there are strong challenge to bring closer users, socials workers and companies. Although the users have mental disorder, they are often graduated and qualified. They must have access to employment like any other citizens.The project is built on the expertise of network competent partners from five different countries: Romania, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. It consists of psychosocial structures specialized in employment, of training centers in mental health issues and of research centers and universities, specialized in those matters.The general purposes of this project are:- Identify what has already been done in these five countries.- Analyze the needs of the triptych of the 150 major players “users, social workers and companies” to develop employability in the real labour market for people with mental disorder. - Build with all partners, validated skill reference, following the needs and analyses of each of the five country’s experts, social workers and team managers from various companies. - Create and develop five training seminars involving 15 participants per country. 75 professionals from 5 countries will have therefore benefited from the pilot training.- Make recommendations at a European level that could be transferable and accessible at a macro political level as well as at a micro structural level (training organizations, universities…). In a participatory approach, our project will produce methodological tools of scientific support to:- Analysis (interview grid, auditions and focus groups containing items and criteria for need assessment)- Development of a common referential training: founding and federative tools.- Development of tested training modules in the five countries: Goals, content, teaching methods, speakers, etc. - A negotiated participatory evaluation of the pilot trainings: working together on implementing quantitative and qualitative tools. Those tools will be downloaded from an Internet site for distance learning and remote information.To conclude, this innovative project attempts to measure the quality and set various benchmarks of the pilot trainings in each country in order to submit a recommendations report.Intended to inform the European Commission and the World Health Organization as well as the Ministries of Research, Educational and Public Health Authorities of each partner country, this report will ensure the sustainability of the project by implementing an European university degree which will respond to the training needs of social workers to develop employability for people with mental disorder.