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Community Guarantee

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-EE01-KA205-034723
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 154,420 EUR

Community Guarantee

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Need for youth surrounding community empowerment is essential in the current societal situation where risks of social exclusion, inability to find employment and sense of uselessness and idleness among young people are high. Unemployment, particularly over a long period of time, can lead to problematic political and social consequences. Without job security, young people become vulnerable to poverty and social exclusion. To take a more proactive approach, youth workers need to stay alongside young people, continuously upgrade their professional knowledge and skills, and conduct practice research in order to support young people more efficiently in overcoming the challenges of their transition to adulthood. Youth worker professionalism, supportive institutional profile and service design are essential in this process. Skilled professionals with relevant preparation and toolkit as well as multi-stakeholder partnerships at the local level are the key factors for successful results in youth work targeted to NEET youngsters. The need for multi-stakeholder partnerships brings new challenges and requirements to institutions profile. It is essential to think about what would be the profile of well-structured multi-stakeholders network and which should be the profile of a youth worker specialized to work with NEET youngsters? To improve services for NEET youngsters, the current situation should be analyzed, practitioners should evaluate themselves as youth workers and youth institutions in NEET supporting process and through this process find out an effective design of service that support NEET youngsters in the best possible way. As Youth Guarantee is a program covering the whole European Union, experiences, needs, problems, challenges can be mutually exchanged and discussed and solutions created transnationally. By sharing and comparing different experiences and practices, we can visualize the profile of a professional NEET youth specialized youth worker and profile of institution providing NEET youth service. During the Community Guarantee project the following activities were implemented: • Forming local level working groups and sustainable collaborations engaging relevant partners (e.g. different service providers, unemployment office, representatives from educational institutions, local government, representatives of employers, previous NEET youth, etc.) • 3 transnational project meetings for project partners • 4 international study visits for youth workers and specialists working with NEET youngsters• 1 international seminar in Estonia for youth workers and specialists working with NEET youngsters to discuss the collected knowledge and work on designing an efficient service model for the NEET youth • National study visits and local activities to evaluate and analyze national services • The final conference in Estonia as a multiplier event • Profile of an effective model of NEET youngsters support service completed as an Intellectual Output The aim of the project was to meet and analyze different realities and to create a functional profile of Community Guarantee – a document describing the concept of effective and multi-dimensional NEET youngster support service. Through common discussions, local and international study visits, practice sharing, collecting the best practices and noticing current weak points, researching case studies and theoretical material about NEET youngsters empowerment, profile manual was created. Different stakeholders gave their input through round tables, notes during study visits, seminars, questionnaires in order to build a practice-based and evidence-based model. The developed service model shows different aspects of one service, including behind the scenes parts of a service that make it work efficiently. The service model helps everyone to get involved in delivering professional and efficient service, as well as understand their role and ensure a coherent experience for the user. The final Intellectual Output of the project, Profile of effective support service for NEETs, is an electronic publication made available for anyone willing to provide qualitative services for NEET youngsters.

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