Identifying needs for youth work advocacy

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Advocacy is about understanding the realities of young people and youth workers, being aware of their needs, and being ready to take action to ensure their rights are respected.Let's explore the need for advocacy in the youth work field.
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Needs vs. WantsNeeds refer to essential things, while wants are the desirable things.
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Source: 50 Needs and Wants Examples by Chris Drew (PhD)﻿
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Youth needs and rightsHuman rights are rights that everyone is entitled to, regardless of who they are or where they are born and live. They are universal in nature and cannot be taken away, which means they are inalienable. Although human rights apply to everyone, certain groups face particular barriers to accessing and enjoying their rights. 
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According to the European Youth Forum, "Young people often encounter difficulties in accessing education, quality employment, social protection and full access to civil and political rights, limiting their potential. There is a need for specific protection to tackle discrimination against young people and to remove the barriers that stop them from accessing their rights."
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Below is an overview of some rights across the leading human rights instruments at different levels. It is not exhaustive but focuses on some of the rights that European youth organisations often work on. Examples of violations are also provided on the European Youth Forum's dedicated website about youth rights.
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Source: Youth Rights Info Tool by the European Youth Forum﻿
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Youth worker needs and rightsThe European Training Strategy defines a youth worker as "someone who works with young people in various non-formal and informal learning contexts, typically focusing on their personal and social development through one-on-one relationships and group-based activities." 
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Youth work and youth workers' recognition vary across countries. While some countries include youth work and youth workers in their national youth policy and youth work service provision legislation, in other countries, such a legal framework does not exist or is in the process of being created.
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We should also be aware that people working with young people may be in a variety of roles, responsibilities and situations, for example:
Youth workers can be employed staff members (full-time, part-time, activity/project basis);
Youth workers can be volunteers;
Youth workers can be freelancers. 
Depending on their status and engagement, their needs and rights may be part of work relations regulation, volunteering legislation or freelancer affairs. Regardless of status, everyone should be entitled to human rights and needs provisions and guarantees.
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How to identify advocacy needs:Step 1. Individually fill in the Workshop "Exploring advocacy needs.".
Step 2. Team up with someone in your organisation/environment to share your vision for needed change.
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Awero organisation created this educational resource and activity for the youth worker training course on networking and advocating.
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This activity supports youth workers' competence development in the "Networking and Advocating" area. Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for youth workers to work internationally:
Knowledge of the needs of the community;
Readiness to accept compromise while guaranteeing young people’s interests and rights;
Ability to research and access relevant information;
Knowledge of how structural and systemic obstacles can limit people’s possibility to act in solidarity
Knowledge about youth rights;
Ability to identify underlying privilege and power relations and mechanisms, and to assess their consequences and potential for acts of solidarity;
Knowledge of the socio-political and economic background of the young people;
Readiness to embrace solidarity as a concept that treats people as equals.
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This badge shows that the earner understands the realities of young people and youth workers, is aware of their needs, and is ready to take action to ensure their rights are respected. The badge earner explored the fundamentals of needs and rights to identify needs for advocacy in the youth work field.
Using the Workshop "Exploring advocacy needs", youth worker explored the needs, ideas and vision for making change through an advocacy campaign.
The badge showcases learning and youth workers' competence development in the "Networking and Advocating" area. Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with the  European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for youth workers to work internationally.

Tâches

Tâche n°1

Preuve vérifiée par : un organisateur de l'activité

Get familiar with young people's and youth workers' needs and rights concepts. 
Use the workshop "Exploring advocacy needs" to explore issues and problems which advocacy campaigns can address. 
Upload a filled-in worksheet explaining your needs and motivation to launch the advocacy campaign on the subject.

Compétences

#Knowledge of the needs of the community

#Readiness to accept compromise while guaranteeing young people’s interests and rights

#Ability to research and access relevant information

#Knowledge of how structural and systemic obstacles can limit people’s possibility to act in solidarity

#Knowledge of the socio-political and economic background of the young people

#Readiness to embrace solidarity as a concept that treats people as equals

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