Coordinator Training Programme - Multi-professional Guidance for Youth

To provide more comprehensive and coherent support for vulnerable youth, so-called one stop shops have been developed across Europe whereby multi-professional teams deliver integrated services to youth. By combining different professions and branches of the welfare system, "integrating all relevant services for young people, including social, health, family and housing services, makes support more accessible, more user-friendly, and more customer-focussed." (DG Employment 2018, Activation measures for young people in vulnerable
situations). Yet despite large-scale efforts, multi-professional services across Europe continue to encounter considerable challenges relating to forming, managing and coordinating their teams and providing truly integrated services, due to a lack of the competencies among staff to navigate and coordinate these complex structures. This was has been underlined by the ESF Youth Employment Thematic Network Sharing Paper No. 1 March 2017, wherein the need for targeted measures to form and coordinate staff from different professional
backgrounds was seen a key learning.

The project addresses the need for a new Coordinator function able to fill the competence gaps, by identifying the competencies required to work in a multi-professional environment with integrated services for youth. These are key competencies that go beyond what professional staff have learnt in their previous training - specific to working in, coordinating, and offering services to clients through multi-professional co-localized teams. This need as defined by the project partners and other organizations exists across Europe but is most
pressing in those member states that have achieved a high intensity of cross-sector collaboration and integration of services. Taken together this allows the project to develop a professional profile and concomitant curriculum responding to concrete needs and transferable across national contexts yet sensitive to local and national variations in institutional setup
and culture.

Projektet har bidraget til at:
- definere og styrke koordinatorfunktionen i multiprofessionelle vejledningscentre for unge.
- identificere nødvendige kernekompetencer for koordinatorfunktionen.
- udvikle curriculum for et træningsprogram for koordinatorer baseret på de identificerede kernekompetencer med institutionel akkreditering (15 ECTS).
- trænet 20 koordinatorer gennem dette program på tværs af partnerlande.
- delt viden om og erfaringer med træningsprogram og kompetenceprofil hos interessenter i ungdomsvejledningsfeltet på tværs af partnerlande og øvrige EU-medlemslande.