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The Safe and Mindful Movement of Young Refugees and Migrants into Youth Groups.

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-3-UK01-KA205-059896
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 41,310 EUR

The Safe and Mindful Movement of Young Refugees and Migrants into Youth Groups.

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One of Europe's largest and most complex challenges in modern history is the migration of people. Whether the catalyst is war last the last one in the Ukraine, climate or economic causes, the short and long term impacts of migration on Europe's youth can be life changing mental illness or social isolation. In January 2017 the number of people residing in an EU state with citizenship of a non-member country was 21.6 million. In addition, there were 16.9 million persons living in one of the EU states being born elsewhere in the EU. Social inclusion of all young people, including those from a migrant background, is a key aim of the 2018 EU Youth Strategy. This proposed Partnership therefore reflects a significant need for the successful social inclusion of youth migrants/refugees. Mindfulness is the practice of focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. This encompasses the use of art, yoga and meditation. Youth groups have the potential to embrace these low-cost techniques to engage migrants/refugees into expressing their feelings and it gives an ability to manage one’s mental health long term post-migration. Objectives of the Partnership were to: - share knowledge of outreach to promote inclusion of young refugees and migrants into youth groups, - develop knowledge and understanding of mindfulness techniques by youth workers for the informal, holistic development of young refugees and migrants, - collaborate to create a hub of resources for youth workers for outreach and teaching mindfulness techniques. As described by the UK's National Youth Agency, youth work is an educational process that engages young people in a curriculum that deepens a young person’s understanding of themselves, their community and the world in which they live. This partnership aimed to work with four partners to share best practice in order to create a hub of resources to equip youth workers with enabling safe environments and trusting relationships with youth migrants and refugees across Europe.This is one of the focus areas for experts under the European Union Work Plan for Youth; creating diverse and tolerant societies to prevent marginalisation and radicalisation. The Partnership consisted of: the UK, Italy and Portugal. Enso Group, is an experienced non-governmental group that seeks to enhance the Erasmus +'s aims of sharing best practice internationally in order to create better youth participation opportunities and therefore greater social inclusion across Europe.HRYO is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in Palermo in 2009 with the aim to strengthen human rights at a local and global level. They have a wealth of experience of organising youth groups for migrants and refugees and use art as a medium for expression.Agrupamento de Escolas Trigal de Santa Maria is a school in Portugal and has students from the Ukraine, Cabo Verde, France and also Roma students. The school challenged with educating staff and Portuguese learners in how best to understand the issues these groups face and how mindfulness can help to cope with mental health post-migration.The first TPM at HRYO was attended by:3 participants from Portugal (teachers of Arts, PE teacher and yoga teacher)4 participants in the UK (Enso Group employees, Migrant, Mindfulness practitioner)2 participants from Italy (Youth workers) and several volunteers, Buddhist and yoga teacherIn addition, a few volunteers and immigrants from Ikenga, about 5 people.The second TPM was attended by:7 participants from Portugal (as above)4 participants in the UK ( as above)2 participants from Italy (Youth workers)The C1 was attended by:2 participants from Portugal were unable to participate due to Covid quarantine4 participants in the UK (Enso Group employees, Mindulness experts and a couch,Migrants, youth workers, volunteers)3 participants from Italy (1 Youth worker and 2 volunteers)The partnership promoted outreach material and the use and value of mindfulness in youth work. The preliminary meetings in each participating country provided the group with the context of the partners' organisations and current outreach and youth group tools in order to inform the detailed learning event in the UK. The main learning event included comprehensive mindfulness workshops, collaboration meetings and first hand experiences of outreach and mindfulness in UK based youth groups. We reached our goal of making a positive, sustainable impact through open-licensed outreach and mindfulness materials on the Enso Academy website and other EU platforms such as Salto, EPALE and Project Results Platform. Therefore, this partnership increased the social inclusion of young migrants/refugees, empowered them and increased the skills of youth workers and also the perceived value of youth groups across Europe.

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