ERASMUS PLUS

“TRAUMA HEALING AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT”

 

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Freedom Gate Greece along with other Non-Profit Organizations, with approx. 100 participants, participates as a partner in the Erasmus + KA1 program (KA105-833D9610-EN) in the project: "Trauma Healing and Community Resilience Development"). 
Project Coordinator: Feminenza International https://www.feminenza.org/

The program involves non-governmental organizations from: Greece, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Palestine, Romania, Turkey, United Kingdom
The participants, mainly youth workers, are often the first line of informal support available for many on the edge of civil society: refugees; homeless; victims of conflict, gender-based violence, sex trafficking; in poverty; living with trauma, mentally ill. In some settings, they are the only doorway to rehabilitation, warmth, and hope to such souls.
More than 64% came with first-hand experience of personal trauma or STS (Secondary Traumatic Stress). The latter, more commonly known as “compassion fatigue”, can have the same symptoms as PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder): depression, fatigue, anxiety, impulsive reactivity, outbursts of anger, sense of loss of control, desperation, incompetency, trouble sleeping.

This project prepares participants to understand STS, how to prevent it from developing as well as the self-care measures needed to step out of the stop situations that STS presents. It prepares the participants to be mindful of, and skilled with:
The role of Gender in STS and trauma
Understanding and managing fear and anxiety
The place of forgiveness and letting go of the past
Building awareness of STS in the workplace, managing STS risks, and instigating a culture that supports self-care
Reflective processes which develop resilience
Also gain the ability to recognize and monitor STS risk and acquire the tools and ability to prevent STS.
Freedom Gate Greece participates in the training with four people and also will host the live meeting that will take place in Greece.

ERASMUS+ PROGRAM “ALTERNATIVE MEASURES FOR IMPRISONMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE”

 ERASMUS+ PROGRAM “CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

 

1. ERASMUS+ PROGRAM “ALTERNATIVE MEASURES FOR IMPRISONMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE”
This project aimed to understand and analyze the different methods about probation/penal measures which do not consider imprisonment for young people but which instead have the community contribute in the sense of a rehabilitation effort made by public bodies as well as private delegation of public authorities in the matter (those who work with Community Services). Freedom Gate Greece was chosen to replace another organization which due to administrative changes was unable to participate in the project. We overtook therefore the task to train 10 participants from the Italian organization Cooperativa Sociale Progetto H in issues concerning alternative measures to prison e.g. community sanctions. There were 2 training sessions which took place 29-31/10/15 and 25-27/11/15. The content and topics of the two training courses were the same and the evaluation done by our Italian organization Cooperativa Sociale Progetto H was excellent both for the organization of the training course, as well as for its quality.

2. ERASMUS+ PROGRAM “CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP”
Freedom Gate Greece participated as a full partner in this project which involved 38 youth workers from 6 different European countries. The project’s aim and main objectives were to improve key competences and entrepreneurial skills of youth workers, to increase the quality of services provided by the consortium member organizations in order to increase self- employment of young in business and to develop creativity, initiative and transversal skills among participants.

 

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