Peer Mentors in Action – Social Inclusion through Peer Mentoring Erasmus Project

Project Title

Peer Mentors in Action – Social Inclusion through Peer Mentoring

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project “Peer mentors in Action – Social Inclusion through Peer Mentoring” aims at supporting youth in the social welfare system in their most challange transition period in overcoming social excusion and fostering positive peer relationships through developing an comprehensive guide book for peer mentoring programs. The objectives of the project involve creating conditions for quality implementation of peer mentoring for youth at risk, innovating the support for youth in the social welfare system and expanding the number of CSO’s using peer mentoring. Througout the project, staff from participating organisations – experts and youth workers with experience in this filed, will meet on the Launching meeting, discuss and enhance their mutual understanding on the topic through a short joint staff training, and then create a comprehensive guide book covering the topics of planning, implementation and evalaution of peer mentoring programs for youth in the social welfare system, including a detailed training for peer mentors. After the creation of the guide book and its online publication, two multiplier events will be organised, one in Serbia and one in Hungary, for promotion of the guide book “Peer support is the best support” to other CSO’s and youth workers. Additionally, the publication will be distributed to experts in social welfare system, and future peer mentors will be targeted through intensive promotion and visibility campaign on the social media and other media channells. Through these activites it is planned to achieve the availability of a comprehensive guide for peer mentoring programs aplicable in the local context, implementation of peer mentoring guide book by CSO’s and youth workers, raising awareness of experts in the social welfare system about the availability of peer mentoring programs for support of youth in the system and expanding the interest of youth for applying to peer mentoring programs. After the multiplier events and the implementation of the dissemination strategy, the project team will meet for the purposes of the evlauation of the project. The project will present the beginning of implementation of peer mentoring programs for youth in the social welfare system, with the idea of a longg-term goal of having peer mentoring programs a constant support service for supporting the social incusion of youth in the social welfare system in their crutial life events.

Project Website

http://cepora.org/en/peer-mentors-in-action/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 29540 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTAR ZA POZITIVAN RAZVOJ DECE I OMLADINE & Country: RS

Project Partners

• LEGJOBB VAGYOK TEHETSEGMENTORALO KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG