About the project
The HeArts of Youth : Dance and Art therapy for social inclusion of migrant and refugee youth is a project aimed at building capacities for youth workers who work with youth at risk of exclusion, focusing in particular on migrant youth. The techniques that will be taught during the project mainly revolve around the use of dance and art therapy, as instruments to better face difficult situations and promote inclusivity. The project has begun on 18/09/2023 and will last until 17/09/2025.
Objectives
The objective of HeArts of Youth is to upskill youth workers dealing with target groups at risk of exclusion, in particular young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, teaching them the use of techniques inspired from dance and art therapy.
The indirect objective of the project is to eventually reach young migrants with these techniques to foster their well-being and their social inclusion.
Activities
- Designing, testing and implementing an online training for youth workers to equip them with knowledge and practice of techniques based on the dance and art therapy approach.
- Developing a multilingual training handbook, didactic videos, and other learning resources that will be shared online.
- Establishing a community of practice to promote exchanges between art and dance therapists along with youth workers.
expected results
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Implementation of mutual learning and training activities for the 40 youth workers involved in the project, both internal and external to the partners organisations.
These youth workers will apply the techniques selected in the project with a large group of 320 young migrants to receive their feedback, trough 6 workshop per country. This will help us evaluate and improve our training to better respond to the needs and expectations of the final beneficiaries.
Sharing the training on digital platforms to make it accessible to every youth worker interested. In practice, among other materials shared online, a multilingual comprehensive digital handbook and several didactic videos will be uploaded on social media, the project’s website, European project result platforms and many other channels. Similarly, media, posts and other materials from the project will be shared too, allowing to everyone interested to learn as much as possible on HeArts of Youth and its content.
Context
Dance therapy is the psychoterapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration.
“Dance is the joy of movement and the heart of life”
Art therapy is a discipline that derives from psychotherapy, based on the incorporation of creative methods of expression through creative and art-making processes.
“Earth without art is just ‘eh?'”
News
Art and dance therapy with youth workers
The consortium behind The HeArts of Youth project is currently testing the handbook on art and dance therapy with youth workers. This initiative aligns with the project’s goal of enhancing the skills of youth workers supporting at-risk groups, particularly young...
A Pivotal Online Meeting Unites Partner Organizations
On July 4th, an online meeting brought together all partner organizations involved in the Erasmus+ project The HeARTs of Youth. The objective of this project is to leverage art and dance therapy techniques to help young migrants develop diverse skills and empower...
Testing and finalising the Handbook for youth workers
From the 24th to the 28th of June 2024, the consortium of the HeArts of Youth project has reunited in Palermo for the last in-person activity of the year, the Training of Trainers in Palermo, Italy. This immersive 5-days event is going to be fundamental for the...
partners
The Red Pencil (Europe) or RPE is a Belgian foundation of public utility and an independent entity of The Red Pencil Humanitarian Mission. We are specialized in creative arts therapy, an approach that uses the arts (drawing, painting, music, dance...) and the creative process to improve people's psychological and emotional well-being. Our mission is to bring the benefits of art therapy to people living difficult life circumstances, with a focus on people from disadvantaged backgrounds, to improve their well-being and strengthen their resilience. Since the starting of its operations in 2018, RPE has been working around 3 main axes: social inclusion, restoring the resilience of asylum seekers and refugees ; Youth, promoting the integration of migrant students and preventing school drop-out; health care: supporting cancer patients and adolescents in psychiatric unit.
"Hope For Children" CRC Policy Center - International Humanitarian and Independent Organisation dedicated to improving the lives of volnurable children around the world. The operation of the organization is founded on the principle of promoting and protecting the rights of all children. Its mission is to provide support, protection, and opportunities for children facing poverty, abuse, neglect, and other challenging circumstances. Through various programs and initiatives, we strive to ensure that every child has access to education, healthcare, and a safe environment to thrive. Hope For Children also works towards empowering local communities and advocating for children's rights, aiming to create a brighter future for all children.
CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 and based in Palermo, Italy. It leads a Network of more than 8 European and extra European associations focused on Education, Training and Social Development. CEIPES has expertise on Education, Transfer of innovation and Project management in different European programmes tackling the Education and the capacity building of different target groups, from young people to adults, from women to unemployed, migrants and disadvantaged groups. It also promotes lifelong learning, vocational training and entrepreneurship with the aim of enhancing opportunities for youth and adults to improve and acquire competences and therefore boost their employability and inclusion. CEIPES has several links with public and private local and international stakeholders that can contribute to the achievement of project results in terms of dissemination, exploitation and sustainability of them. CEIPES can count on experienced staff composed of professionals with different competences and fields such as psychology, communication, training, international cooperation, social and cultural mediation, social assistance, ICT, digital manufacturing and law.
Cie Essevesse, based in Marseille, France, is codirected by Sicilian choreographers Antonino Ceresia & Fabio Dolce. Both artists came together to combine their knowledge and artistic visions to develop the three main missions of the company: Creation, defending the place of a dance that is both politically committed, through its attention to social change, and demanding, through the techniques they have acquired over the course of their career; Research, through the implementation of their workshops on their targeted audiences and the collaborations with professionals with different yet relevant backgrounds in order to enhance their knowledge and develop their pedagogical tools; Health, via therapeutic sessions through Dance and Art Therapy (certified RNCP). These three axes are developed via a national and international network, through local and european support. Cie Essevesse is continuously aiming to reach as many people as possible, including minorities, collaborating with partners all over Europe with a single overarching goal: together towards a better world.
