PAPYRUS

Professional Action and Practice for Youth Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Objectives

• To raise the standards of youth work around working with migrants and refugees
• To raise and sustain quality youth work in Europe by fostering strategies to combat segregation and discrimination of displaced youth
• To create an inclusive and target group-engaged methodology which will produce innovative open learning and networking opportunity output on a dedicated web platform
• To innovate through consolidating knowledge and skills around working with these vulnerable young people

Activities

• Investigating interactive Youth Worker Context Case Studies
• Holding innovative face to face and virtual training and generate peer-to-peer networks to enable the maximum number of youth workers (all types and from all sectors in Europe) to share and learn about working with refugees
• Creating a methodology model for co-production of open resources around youth work best practice in Europe, which will provide a framework for future projects in this area
• Creating innovative tools for youth workers and practitioners to enhance their capacity to deliver high quality youth work

Results

• Analysis Report on Mapping of Comparative Youth Work Practices with Refugees
• Training kit modules:

1. Multicultural understandings and working in Multicultural Environments with Youth Refugees
2. Social inclusion of Refugee Families and Young People
3. Socioeconomic Empowerment of Youth Refugees
4. Providing Psychosocial support for Youth Refugees
5. Abuse Prevention and Safeguarding of Youth Refugees and Asylum Seekers