🇱🇻 Erasmus+ Training Course in Latvia 🧭 How to Be a Youth Mentor? 🤝

"How to be a youth mentor?" is an Erasmus+ Training Course, a crash course for youth workers designed to prepare specialists as youth mentors so they can provide individual mentoring to young people with various social and personal challenges. The training programme is based on a social service that the organisers provide to more than 200 young people in Liepāja every year. Since its establishment, 6 municipalities in Latvia have been working based on this module, and more than 300 mentors have been trained who have helped over 1000 young people.

Goal and Objectives

The goal is to prepare specialists as youth mentors so they can provide individual mentoring to young people with various social and personal challenges. The objectives are:

🧰 To give practical mentoring tools for doing individual youth work

🤝 To give practical mentoring methods that can also be used with colleagues, other specialists and yourself

💛 To prepare specialists for working with troubled youth and young people that need individual support

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Eligible Countries

This training course is open to youth workers from 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇬🇪 Georgia, and 🇧🇬 Bulgaria. The course brings together 25 participants (youth workers aged 18 and over) from these five countries.

Details, Accommodation and Free Time

Participants stay at Art Hotel Roma, a centrally located hotel in Liepāja, in double rooms, with all meals at the hotel restaurant. The hotel is a 5-minute walk from the working venue, YOUSpace. During the project, participants are provided with 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) plus 2 coffee breaks, and there is wi-fi in the centre. During the course, participants will visit the city of Liepāja, the historical military city of Karosta, and have activities at the beach. There will also be a cultural evening, so participants are encouraged to bring traditional snacks and drinks and some games.

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What Is Covered

This project is fully funded by the "Erasmus+: Youth in Action" programme. During the project, participants are provided with 3 meals a day and 2 coffee breaks. Travel is reimbursed up to a fixed ceiling per country: Lithuania 210€, Poland 275€, Georgia 395€, Bulgaria 309€, and Latvia 0€ (local). In addition, for those travelling the green way and spending a long time on the road, food and accommodation expenses can be reimbursed up to 80€ per participant (arranged personally with the coordinators in advance). Taxi and first class tickets will not be reimbursed. Participants are invited to avoid flying and to use lower-emission options such as bus, train, or carpooling (gas expenses reimbursed for a shared personal car, arranged in advance).

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How to Get There

Participants can arrive via Riga international bus or train station, then take a bus or train to Liepāja station where they will be picked up, or via Palanga bus station in Lithuania, from where they can be picked up. The project is organised by youpluss.lv, and the project coordinator is Andris Kāposts.