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3.2. Youth information and counselling
All children and young people living in Styria have sufficient access to information and know
how to evaluate and handle information. This gives them the ability, depending on age, to make
decisions self-determinedly and self-responsibly to plan their future according to their interests
and needs.
Principles and Contents
- The possibility of information transfer to persons who are interested will be optimized.
Therefore, intern (mainly personal) knowledge about institutions and offers concerning
children and youth work in Styria will be made available to all assistants
- Young people and children will be questioned about their preferences concerning
accesses to information (internet, flyer,…) and consequently the offers will be perfected
according to this results. In addition, a process will be created which makes it possible to
continually observe changes in the needs.
- A major focus will be put on the creation of access to offers for children and young
people in specific circumstances. There is paid particular attention to specific conditions
in the fields of mobility, language and availability of media/internet.
- A wide-ranged basic offer for the initial contact of children and young people is ensured
and deepening offers for specific annual focus areas are created
Target groups
- Young people, independent of their level of education, social environment, regional origin
etc.
Regionality
- Regional youth managers will collect data concerning the needs of children and young people.
These results will be taken into consideration in the creation of regional information and
consulting services
Quality and eligibility criteria
- Besides the generally applied eligibility criteria in the context of the law for youth
promotion, action-specific quality criteria will be worked out and transparently
presented.
- Qualitatively examined and uniform information folders on specific topics will be created
together with the providers
- There will be conducted training sessions for actors in the field of action on information
competence and the annual focal areas
Cooperation and networking
- Cooperation with multipliers in the field of parental training, family counselling, schools,
shelters and municipalities will be established
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This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co -financed by the ERDF