🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
Training course "How to be a youth mentor?" 2026
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
13-21 September 2026 | Liepāja, Latvia
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❗️What Is This Training About?
This training course is created to prepare youth mentors that can provide systematic individual support to young people with fever opportunities. Programme is based on a social service that we are providing to more than 200 young people every year.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
In the last 5 years we as an organization have created a new social service called "Youth mentoring network". Basicly it is nothing new, we just have created a guided system for anyone who wants to become a professional youth mentors and support young people with fewer opportunities individually.
This training programme is based on a programme we use to prepare mentors in 8 municipalities in Latvia and prepare mentors for the biggest mentoring programme in the schools of Latvia.
Topics we will be covering in this training:
1. Creating contact and trust
2. Screening and red flags
3. Social skills
4. Relationships
5. Daily life skills
6. Sexual orientation and gender identity
7. Emotional intelligence
8. Discipline and micro-routines
9. Addictions
10. Anxiety and depression
11. Burnout
12. Values and ethics
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 25 participants
from Bulgaria, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Volunteering mentors
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Development platform YOU+ (Youth NGO)
Development platform YOU+ is the one of the strongest and largest youth organisations in Latvia that is working with a huge spectrum of young people - starting from active and talented young people to young people with fewer opportunities.
Since the establishment of the organisation it has been working on helping local youth to implement their ideas through the non-formal education and EU provided support.
Organisation has organised more than 300 local youth trainings, more than 30 local and international projects in the last 3 years and involved more than 1000 active members that are developing the future projects and local community.
Daily activities include supporting and mentoring youth in the form of local youth mentoring network , coordinating voluntary work in Liepāja, coordinating Eurodesk information network of the west region of Latvia and organising local activities and projects. Also, the organisation is developing Erasmus+ KA3 projects, Erasmus+ Youth work Accreditation, Solidarity projects in European solidarity corps and Voluntary work and Work projects in European solidarity corps.
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Andris Kāposts
E-Mail:
Phone: +37120597141
💶 Costs
Participation fee
No fee
Accommodation and food
During the project you will be provided with 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), also 2 coffee breaks a day, free of charge.
Travel reimbursement
Lithuania - 285 EUR/per person;
Poland - 285 EUR/ per person;
Georgia - 395 EUR/ per person.
Bulgaria - 309 EUR/ per person
Latvia - 0 EUR/ per person
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/15122
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 1 September 2026
Date of selection: 2 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
⚠️ Important Notice
Youth Works Hub is not the organiser, partner, or representative of the listed projects. This listing is shared for information only, based on details from the source. Deadlines, eligible countries, dates, and other details may change or be withdrawn at any time, and all funding, reimbursements, and allowances are set by the project coordinator or National Agency. Applications go directly to the coordinator or hosting organisation through the official link. Listings may include third-party links (ESC Portal, infopacks, forms) that Youth Works Hub does not control. Always verify the details on the official project page before applying.
