The organisation and practice of local youth work needs …

to stimulate and support young people to meet over all kinds of barriers and borders in order to socialise, exchange experiences and ideas, organise, learn from each other and take action.

Personal and social development is closely linked to meeting people with other backgrounds and ideas than your own. Through meeting others, you broaden your horizons and get to understand not only others, but also yourself, better. The active inclusion of different groups into youth work is therefore beneficial for everybody involved.

Do you agree on what this means in practice?
Do you agree on to what degree youth work meets this bullet point?
Here you find the questions you need to discuss to find out!

If you think that this is something you need to work on, click the “Add to development agenda” button below. You will then find your agenda on your personal page and be able to start a development process.

Please note!
If you start a development process related to this bullet point you will find the below questions also under the page “Discuss and assess”. There you will also be able to take notes.

Questions to discuss

Is local youth work reaching young people with various ideas, interests, backgrounds and living conditions?
- Is youth work making these various groups meet and take part in common activities?
What are the risks of only working with a very homogeneous group of young people?

References & tips

Embracing diversity. An introduction to diversity management in youth work.
SALTO-Youth inclusion resource center, 2017