sábado, 8 de março de 2008

Projecto Smart Blond - detalhes:


Do you think that all homosexuals love pink color, boys do not cry and blond girl are stupid? Join our training course!

Details about the training course:

Title: „ Smart Blond“
Action: 4.3
Dates: Start of training course July 26th to August 2nd 2008 (July 26th is the day of arrival and August 2nd is the day of departure)
Place: Close to Strakonice, Czech Republic
Target group of participants: workers with youth, professionals who meet any kind of differences at work or daily live, people who are interested in this topic

Participants: max 30 participants aged: 18 – 99.

Summary of the project
The PREVENT association is providing social services in the whole South Czech region. The main focus in all projects is on drug prevention, but the methods, which we use, are very different as we are trying to cover all levels of the prevention field. We are active in the primary prevention. We run an experiential courses for school children and students, educative projects for pedagogues and workers with youth and training courses for peer activist. The second part of our programmes is providing social services for current drug users. We provide exchange programmes for them as well as services for ex-users.

Because of our work , we have a rich experience with prejudices and stereotypes. We can meet this kind of attitudes in our work every day. We discovered the way how to identify this kind of thinking and how to prevent it. We would like to share our experience.

Main Topic: Prejudices and Stereotypes
· How to work with expectation on the other nations.
· How to deal with the attitude against a new member states of EU.
· How to identify soon prejudices of social worker, teachers and others against differences (subkulures of disabled, homosexual, inhabitants of development and borders area etc. )
· The part of Youth exchange programmes in prevention of xenofoby between Youth inside the EU.

Main Aim:
Main aim of this training course is to identify the way how we percieve differences between people through experiential learning and outdoor education. We want to prevent creation of negative stereotypes and prejudices against different subcultures and nations. Participants of our training course will be educated in specific methods of identifying prejudices to use these methods and improve their work with youth. We will focus on the experiences of participants during the course and on the other hand on transmission of these experiences to theirs clients.

Methods:
This topic will be examined through real experiences of participants, outdoor activities, discussion, worshops and their feedback. Our team consist of lectors of experiencial education and learning. During this course participants will meet some members of particular subcultures which often face stigmatization and negative prejudical attitude. We will be cooperate with local comunity as well. To conclude and evaluate our cours we wil organise final exhibition with local band, international buffet and further activities conducted by participants.

Activities:
· Experiential learning and outdoor activities
· Self reflexion activities
· Group dynamic activities
· Relaxation activities
· Workshops
· Workgroups for discussion the problem
· Workshop of performance with local people
· Presentation of dishes and tradicions
· Meeting with the local authorities

Impact on participants:
Participants will be able to identify sareotypes against their potencial clients and on the other hand they will be able guide their clients to recognize and eliminate prejudices against different subcultures. Participants gain on this course specific techniques and methods how to deal with prejudices and stereotypes to improve their work with clients. Particapants will share their experiences from particular countries and organization and they will enter into a partnership between each other.

Impact on participating organization:
Thanks to taking part in this course organization gain new useful contact with similiar organization in different country. Participation on this projekt organization also support employers well-beeing and prevent burnout. Thanks to the projekt participants gain specific education technique which help improve their work.

Impact on local community:
Our project will help to make local public and young people aquintance with YOUTH program. It will help to break stereotypes a prejudice of local people gainst foreiners and participants against local public as well.

Financial Condition:
70% of international travel costs are covered by the Youth Program funds.This amount will be reimbursed, presenting original bill and original travel tickets and boarding passes.
Accommodation and diet during the course will be fully covered by hosting organisation.
Visa cost is 100% covered.


Os interessados em participar neste projecto deverão contactar-nos para: agorabracarense@gmail.com

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