Perhaps you have already heard us mention terms like MONO or mobile youth work or inviting youth work? This is quite likely, because in addition to open youth work, our focus for two years has been precisely inviting youth work, which is part of mobile youth work! The goal of inviting youth work is to introduce youth work opportunities to young people and to reach young people who would not otherwise come to the centers. You can read more about it here.
On November 24, the final seminar of the Erasmus+ project "Street Youth Work ABC," organized by the Tartu Youth Work Center and the Baltic Regional Fund, took place at the Tartu Comb Factory. Participants from both Estonia and Latvia discussed topics such as communicating with young people, reflection, preparation, and interventions in street youth work.
The meeting also presented videos created within the Erasmus+ project, as well as street work methods and theoretical materials. Social workers and youth workers from Latvia were also present at the conference, gaining insight into Estonian practices and introducing their own. Together with them, the Lille youth center was also explored.
The seminar was the final meeting of the "ABC of Street Work" project. As part of the same project, the following took place during the year Job shadowing at the Tartu Youth Work Center, where our southern neighbors came to learn about our work; a video camp in Latvia, during which four videos on street youth work were produced in collaboration between Estonians and Latvians; and several training courses and supervisions, which helped to develop the skills of youth workers and thereby promote street-based youth work in Tartu, Estonia more broadly, and Latvia.
The project is supported by the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps agency through the Erasmus+ program.
