Call for LGBTQI+, Roma, or Refugee Focused Youth Workers in Belgium, Greece, & Italy

The training is for youth workers who work with marginalized young people on LGBTQI rights, Roma Rights, and anti-racist issues more broadly; as well as supporting young people on the move refugees and asylum seekers. The seven-day-training will improve youth workers’ knowledge and capacity to tackle the intersectionality of youth’s struggles within their work and the activities of their respective organisations.

Objectives

• Objectives of the training are for the participants to:
  • Develop a better understanding of the lived experiences of youth at the intersection of their multiple marginalised identities (such as being LGBTQI+ and Romani, or a person of colour who is LGBTQI+ and a refugee, etc.)
    • Be able to identify the needs as well as the structural, systemic, social, and interpersonal barriers faced by youth who are affected by multiple forms of discrimination.
    • Become better equipped to support youth who are facing multiple discrimination.
  • Learn about the work, good practices, needs, and gaps in the work and service provision of the three lead organisations; specifically, how they respond to ’intersectional invisibility’.
  • Build an international community of youth workers, trained in: applying intersectional analysis in youth work, responding to the fragmentation that exists within youth work among and between the social justice movements focusing on the single-identity issues, and learning together how to make organisational spaces and youth work activities more affirmative and inclusive for youth with multiple marginalised identities.
  • Contribute to the professional development of youth workers working with socially marginalised youth by developing their knowledge and competencies in intersectional analysis of social injustices from a systemic, socio-ecological and critical perspective.
  • Create an opportunity for a dialogue between youth workers working with marginalised youth and guest experts working on LGBTQI+, Romani, and refugee human rights protection.
  • Raise awareness in the respective local communities on the intersectional issues faced by young people of multiple marginalised backgrounds by developing local actions after the training with other participants of the training (e.g. a local panel discussion for the public, or a workshop for other youth workers working locally; or other formats of participants’ choice: campaigns, educational activities to bring solidarity and intersectionality to practice.)

Cost Covered

• The JINT- Belgian National Agency will cover the costs for accommodation and food.
• Travel reimbursement: after being selected, the project manager will get in touch with you about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.

Eligibility Criteria

• Profile of the participants:
  • Over 18-years-old (no age limit).
  • Residing in Italy, Greece or Belgium.
  • Able to travel to Athens, Greece for the full duration of the training course (reimbursement of the travel expenses will be done only to those who attended the full training).
  • Youth workers who work directly with marginalised youth, specifically on LGBTQI+, Romani, or migration issues and their intersection in one of the target countries (Belgium, Greece, and Italy).
  • Youth workers associated with the partner organisations on this project, as well as with other organisations, associations, youth groups, and grassroots collectives working specifically with Roma and other ethnic minorities youth; migrants, especially young asylum seekers and refugees; and LGBTIQ+/Queer youth in Belgium, Greece and Italy, as they want to increase the collaboration and impact of this project beyond the participating partner organisations.
  • Committed to participating in all the activities of the project, including organising and implementing together a local action at the end of the project based on their learning (e.g. a panel discussion, a workshop, a webinar, or a campaign on the topic of the project: intersectional issues within Roma, LGBTQI+, and refugee youth work.

For more information, visit ERRC.