- How and why are volunteering projects especially useful for disadvantaged youth? 

- How do these projects help them grow?

- How can we involve and engage disadvantaged youth in volunteering projects?

- What can we do for their inclusion, how can we overcome the barriers of cultural differences, language and low self-esteem resulting from their backgrounds?

At Élményakadémia (Academy of Experience)- we have been working with disadvantaged youth with the method of volunteering based non-formal education for 12 years. Our mission is to promote personal development and social integration through developing social and personal skills and attitudes of participants by using outdoor activities and applying the methodology of experiential education. 

Join us for a crucial conversation on the involvement of the most vulnerable youth in volunteering. 

Main topics will include:

• how to reach at-risk youth with such projects; 

• what needs to be done so they can get involved; 

• how trauma informed approach has affected our work (through the work or Bruce Perry and Bessel von der Kolk)

• how we integrate the solution focused approach to help our youth grow

• our most recent experiences in involving at risk youth from different countries in international volunteering projects and mobilities through the Erasmus+ program.....

Co-funded by Erasmus+

Webinar experts:

Árpád Bárnai: Árpád is a trainer, youth worker, and one of the leaders of Academy of Experience (Élményakadémia). He has 15 years of experience as a youth worker supporting youth living in foster care and in extreme poverty. He found his professional calling as a foster home educator, and thinks of himself as a travel companion who facilitates learning and change. He trains youth workers and trainers in the areas of non-formal learning, outdoor education, coaching and mentoring, and trauma informed care. He has taken part in creating the From Us to You volunteering based learning process in 2010, and has been a member of the teams realizing and improving the program ever since.

Zsófia Gergely: Zsófi is a part-time trainer and volunteer coordinator at Academy of Experience (Élményakadémia), as well as an educator at and head of the Burattino foster home. In the past she has worked at a children’s psychiatry, was a main camp-leader at Bátor Tábor, and field consultant of the Serious Fun Children’s Network. She believes that through real connection and a trauma informed approach it is possible to create a foster home environment which meets the most basic needs of the children growing up there. She has joined the teams of the From Us to You volunteering based education program, and Youth+ in 2022.

Zoom link to join the Webinar: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84193399687?pwd=bWxEa0dXc2ZGMFB0bVRRYzVGWVp0dz09