Youth4Youth: Youth Clubs in Ukraine

Youth Clubs in Ukraine in the framework of the project “Youth for Youth: promoting rights – transforming lives” ФАЗА І

Youth for Youth: promoting rights, transforming lives

”Youth 4 Youth: promoting rights – transforming lives” is a project that aims to empower disadvantaged youth to serve as the agents of social change for their peers and communities by enhancing awareness of civil and social rights and developing a network of youth clubs

Youth club is a space for young people to develop life skills, expand social network, raise awareness about social rights and receive support in their fulfilling

In the framework of the 1st project phase (2014-2015) 21 youth trainers were trained to work with sensitive youth 17 youth clubs were created in 12 regions of Ukraine 350 young people took part in 40% - young people who are deprived of parental care 30% - youth facing difficult life circumstances 15% - IDPs and others 15% - active young people Present booklet contains information on 12 youth clubs, as well as 3 success stories of youth clubs participants

Youth for Youth: promoting rights, transforming lives

How to Become Successful training program for raising social competency of youth ФАЗА І They Me, We,

Myself

Me and Beloved Person

Me and Profession

1. Personality

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Communication

1. Courtship

2. Character

2.

Relations

2. Affection

1. Professional Orientation

3. Inner World

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Social Roles

3. Love

2. My Education

4. Feelings and

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Social Skills

4. Sex

3. Employment

5. Family

4. Success in Profession

Emotions 5. Physical Appearance 6. Health

6. Parenthood

I Am the Master of My Life

Me and Social Rights

1. Everyday Life 2. Management of Life Situations 3. Leisure and Distribution of Time 4. Budget 5. Planning the Future

1. Human Rights 2. Social Rights 3. Social Rights in Everyday Life 4. Rights and Participation 5. Social Rights in Practice

Молодь для молоді: знай свої права – змінюй життя

NGO “Care and Support” Dnipropetrovsk

Youth club “Alternative” Youth trainers: Olena Levchenko, Olena Skriagina, Katia Yakubenko 1st club’s meeting: December 3, 2014 Delivered 32 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized more than 20 events, including workshops, excursions, meetings with interesting people, an outdoor quest etc.

Participants: 41 people, including children and young people deprived of parental care or coming from families facing difficult life circumstances; active young people

FIND OUT MORE visit the social network page of the club vk.com/club90902287

“The choice is always there” – Motto of the club - You know, the most important are the relationships that were built: even supposed guys will go ahead with their own lives, they’ll still know that they have someone to turn to in case something happens...

-...This is the fundament. – a fragment from the participants’ presentation at the summer camp

Olena Levchenko youth trainer

“With the most active participants close relationships were established.

We have witnessed the effects of the latter in their lives: their interpersonal communication and their attitude towards people around them has changed.” – Olena Levchenko

Young people learnt more about... ...types of temper and types of human behavior ...difference between friendship and love ...finding a job, performing in a job interview ...Internet security ...HIV/AIDS ...human rights They built skills of... ...controlling their emotions ...self-analysis ...effective communication …turning their wishes into life goals …planning ...working in a team ...writing a resume ...cooking and understood that... ...various types of behavior may either enhance or hinder communication with other people ...it is necessary to analyze and adjust one’s behavior to the situation and environment ....cooperation is very important, the result of team work depends on every member of the team

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Drohobych City Center of Social Services for Families, Children and Youth Drohobych / Lvivska oblast

Youth club “Secret of Success” Youth trainer: Anna Khanas 1st club’s meeting: December 17, 2014 Delivered 37 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized workshops, excursions, visits to the theatre and museums, meetings with interesting people Participants: 25 people, including children and young people deprived of parental care; children and young people coming from internally displaced families or families whose members participate in ATO; active young people

FIND OUT MORE contact Anna Khanas at nutakhanas92@gmail.com

“Thanks to our club we learnt a lot of new stuff, met new people, built friendly relations with them… Also, we traveled a lot, visited many museums, theaters, different churches. Thanks to our master-classes every one of us was able to see something new. In addition, everyone probably discovered a new talent”, – a fragment from the youth club presentation at the summer camp by participants

Anna Khanas youth trainer “Young people developed communication and social skills that are necessary for successful adaptation in the society. Participants of the club learnt to express their thoughts and feelings. Youth built skills of forming positive social connections, broadened the circles of their friends and acquaintances, enriched their experience with historical facts and events of their own town”, – Anna Khanas

Young people learnt more about... …concept of the human “inner world” …culture of their native region …harmful habits …difference between friendship and love …maintaining positive family relations …choosing educational and professional paths They built skills of... …controlling emotions ….expressing thoughts in a clear way …effective communications …reflecting social roles, especially those that are needed for independent life …decision-making under difficult life circumstances …public speaking and understood that... …one should respect own family and be responsible about starting a new family ...it is possible to build long-term relationships with the opposite gender, which are based on respect …it is important to take care of one’s appearance …one should be socially active

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Youth club “How to Become Successful” Youth trainer: Katia Mukha 1st club’s meeting: November 27, 2014 Delivered 16 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized workshops, excursions and outdoor activities Participants: 31 people, including children and young people deprived of parental care or coming from families that face difficult life circumstances; active young people

FIND OUT MORE contact Katia Mukha at katya.mukha@ukr.net

“I was invited to attend [the youth club] by our director. He said: “Go and learn.

What are you going to do in your spare time otherwise?” I came to the club and was amazed by how cool and comfortable it was. That is why I decided to visit it regularly” – a citation from the participants’ presentation at the summer camp

Katia Mukha youth trainer “Notable effect of the youth club project “How to Become Successful” was the fact that attending the meetings young people had a possibility and did make some progress in exploring themselves and the others. They gained skills of creating a positive self-esteem and realized their own uniqueness, learnt to analyze own deeds and to project own life paths, improved skills of communication with people of the opposite gender and learnt about secure sexual behavior”, – Katia Mukha, youth trainer

City Center of Social Services for Families, Children and Youth Kaniv / Cherkaska oblast

Young people learnt more about... ...taking care of their appearance …effective use of communication …ways of self-realization …life planning …household …managing difficult life situations and taking important life decisions …ways to make good use out of leisure activities They built skills of... …creating a positive first impression …self-analysis …effective communication and selfpresentation …life planning …outlining budget and household planning …project their future and understood that... …positive self-esteem is important foundation for future success …people ought to take responsibility for their actions …it is important to believe in yourself and put effort into realization of your own life plans …securing a better future needs effective planning

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NGO “Generation of Free” Lviv

Youth club “A Drop in the Ocean” Youth trainer: Yuliia Skorubska 1st club’s meeting: December 5, 2014 Delivered 21 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized workshops, visits to peculiar places, meetings with interesting people Participants: 28 people, including children and young people deprived of parental care or coming from internally displaced families, children and young people whose fathers participate in ATO; active young people

FIND OUT MORE visit the social network page of the club vk.com/molodklub

“I think it was important that the atmosphere created was characterized by security and equality, which provided grounds for participants to open up and share their private problems and issues that worry them. They trusted to and felt support of trainers and other participants”, – Yulia Skorubska

Yuliia Skorubska youth trainer “They became more opened for new things, acquaintances, ideas and initiatives.

Now they express their own initiative more actively; they learnt to formulate their thoughts in a more clear way (some have also learnt to formulate their own thoughts in relation to particular topics). I think that young people became more confident about their own abilities and capabilities, found people that will support them when needed. Now they are also ready to provide such support to their peers and schoolmates themselves”, – Yulia Skorubska

Young people learnt more about... …ways of building and developing relationships …ways of solving conflicts …professional orientation …culture of sexual behavior …how to express their civic position

They built skills of... …expressing their own thoughts in a clear and convincing way …social communication and interaction …providing emergency medical aid

and understood that... …all people are exceptional and similar at the same time …there is a difference between love and a crash …it is important to be more active and step up with own initiatives

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Youth club “How to Become Successful” Youth trainer: Iryna Dohoida 1st club’s meeting: January 15, 2015 Delivered 15 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized a yoga workshop, a city tour, visit to a theater and football match and other events Participants: 20 young people, including children and young people deprived of parental care or coming from families facing difficult life circumstances; active youth

FIND OUT MORE contact Iryna Dohoida at irinadogoida@gmail.com

“Teenagers got a brilliant opportunity to feel their contribution into a big and good deed. They helped collecting money for the needs of the ATO, gave smaller children as well as adults an opportunity to perceive themselves as real patriots through body-art (using national symbols and colors).

They took part in boosting informational stand and provided interesting leisure activities by organizing various contests and games (parachute games, football, quiz etc.)”, – Iryna Dohoida on participation of the youth from her youth club in the family festival “Childhood island”

Iryna Dohoida youth trainer

NGO “Happiness Corporation” Lutsk

Young people learnt more about... ...feelings and emotions ...appearance ...communication and relations ...healthy life style ...social roles and connections ...friendship and love ...culture of sexual behavior ...planning a family ...fight against human traffic They built skills of... ...self-analysis ...effective communication ...decision-making ...managing difficult life situations ...reflecticng their wishes, setting goals and planning future accordingly ...outlining their budget and understood that... ...every person is unique and should be respected ...healthy nutrition and physical exercise are very important ...creation of a family demans high responsibility and should be wellplanned ...there is a difference between love and a crash

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Youth club “How to Become Successful”, Lutsk

Vadym “Our youth club and yoga – these are two things that helped me to make my life better or, to be more precise, to change my attitude towards ordinary things.

Training at the youth club gave me a push towards these changes. …Only after becoming a part of the youth club, I realized that all the changes in my life start with me”

“My name is Vadym Stepaniuk. This summer I turned 18 years old. I am in my third year of study at the Volyn’ Technical College of the National University of Food Technology. I live in a big family. I have four brothers: three are younger and one is elder.

My teenage years were hard and I felt that I needed to change something. Besides, I thought that I had psychological issues and, therefore, I was hoping to find solutions to my problems in psychological therapy.

However, it was not easy to go to a psychologist by myself, so my friend helped me. He walked me over there and helped to get distracted from the thoughts about the final aim of our walk. Thanks to him, I did not notice how we got to the psychologist office”

“After waiting for a while, I got a session and told to the psychologist about everything I was worried about. We had a conversation and at the end the psychologist advised me to come to the first meeting of the club “How to Become Successful” where she was the trainer. Without much thinking, I agreed, because I was eager to start changing something around myself.

This is how I became a participant of a youth club. I could tell a lot, but I would like to tell about the main things that changed my life. Many new interesting acquaintances, even more of new topics undiscovered before and other things that revealed to us during each session. It was both fun and useful. Also, I liked the master-classes very much. During the latter we learnt to do something new; interesting and successful people were visiting us; and accurately at the first master-class I met a yoga instructor, a girl that impressed me a lot. After that training I contacted her and she offered to come to the yoga class, which I did, even though it was scaring me a little. Still, I got very interested in this topic, since I wanted to discover myself from this point of view as well. It has already been 9 months since then and I sill practice yoga and discover new reasons to continue doing this”

“Our youth club and yoga—these are two things that helped me to make my life better or, to be more precise, to change my attitude towards ordinary things. Training at the youth club gave me a push towards these changes...

...I am thanking for that time, knowledge and faith that were given to me. Only after becoming a part of the youth club, I realized that all the changes in my life start with me”

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Youth club “How to Become Successful” Youth trainer: Alla Kyriiak 1st club’s meeting: January 17, 2015 Delivered 19 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized workshops, excursions, meetings with interesting people, celebrations, a photo session etc.

Participants: 33 young people, including children and young people deprived of parental care or coming from families facing difficult life circumstances, internally displaced families; active young people

FIND OUT MORE contact Alla Kyriiak at viditodesa@ukr.net

“Communication with successful people in relaxed, festive atmosphere, realization of creative ideas during photo sessions, new contacts, impressions, emotions. Emergence of new features and elements of relations. Some of the participants have radically switched their position: from isolation to full participation into the process of communication”, - Alla Kyriiak on key results of the functioning of the club

Alla Kyriiak youth trainer “Five more participants have joined the club, some of them are ‘children of the street’. This meeting was a unique one, since this time our young leaders had an opportunity to take over the role of trainers. It was them who organized new interesting exercises for new participants, it was them who initiated discussions in the training circle, enhanced cooperation in the group”, - Alla Kyriiak on one of the trainings.

NGO “The Sails of Childhood” Odesa

Young people learnt more about... …models of individual growth …working on self-development …building strategies …enhancing evolution of dreams into strategic planning and realization …volunteering

They built skills of... …discovery and utilization of own talents …effective communication …expressing own feelings …improving own self-esteem ...building relations with people around them ...planning their future and understood that... …in order to gain success, one needs to enhance own individual development, strive to do good deeds …one of the most important indicators of reliable relations – trust and goodwill …it is important to support those who needs this

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Youth club “How to Become Successful” Odesa

Nastia*

“In the summer of 2014 Nastia moved to Odesa with her stepmother and stepsister. By that time she had become a witness of war hostilities, some of her acquaintances died in warfare. Due to resistance of Nastia’s father to moving to Odesa, the stepmother decided to accommodate her at a hostel for students of a local vocational and technical education institution, thus, refusing to be a part of the girl’s fate. Receiving such attitude from her stepmother affected Nastia in a bad way. She became closed, cried often and wrongfully blamed everything on her own behavior…

“Over holidays Nastia managed to get a job; she found friends and, according to her own words, started to feel happy.

The girl thinks that it is thanks to the youth club that she managed to succeed in creating such a positive impact on her own life.

This year the girl was among the first participants to mention her readiness to continue visiting the youth club”

“During the time that she participated in the youth club activities, the girl reached significant results in selfdevelopment. First important point of departure was celebration of her Birthday in a pizzeria, where other participants prepared gifts and surprises for her…

*this story was written down by Alla Kyriiak, the trainer

…Her Father did not support the girl, called her rarely. Nastia’s mother has not been involved in upbringing of the girl over several year, even her location is unknown.

At the moment Nastia has received status of a child that is left without parental care”

…Later, she enjoyed taking part in a festive photo session that was organized by our partners from “Development” agency. Further on, she also participated actively in the training “I+we” that involved participants of the club…

…With every new training Nastia was opening, communicating in a more eager fashion, taking more active part in the work of small groups. She started to show her best features: benevolence, creativity, interest in our exercises. As she said herself, a great impression on her made the meeting with an interesting person. She was listening about journalism with great pleasure, asked questions, was interested in the secrets of success”

“Over holidays Nastia managed to get a job; she found friends and, according to her own words, started to feel happy…

of the youth club “How to Become Successful”, Odesa

…The girl thinks that it is thanks to the youth club that she managed to succeed in creating such a positive impact on her own life.

This year the girl was among the first participants to mention her readiness to continue visiting the youth club”

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Youth club “How to Become Successful”

Youth trainers: Dima Vasiliev, Maksym Parkhomenko 1st club’s meeting: October 22, 2014 Delivered 15 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organised workshops, visit to the cinema, outdoor activities Participants: 28 young people, including children and young people coming from families that face difficult life circumstances.

“All started in the fall of 2014.

It was an ordinary autumn day.

Trainers from the youth club “How to Become Successful” in the town Smila in Cherkasy district visited us and offered to discover ourselves. By then it seemed like a weird but interesting proposition – and we agreed! Interesting and informative trainings had begun.

With every module they were becoming more and more interesting and our trainers would motivate us more and more by organizing meetings with interesting people who reached success and could share their valuable experience with us”, – a citation from the participants’ presentation at the summer camp

Maksym Parkhomenko

FIND OUT MORE contact Maksym Parkhomenko at max_freemen@ukr.net

youth trainer

City Center of Social Services for Family, Children and Youth Smila / Cherkaska oblast

Young people learnt more about... …concepts of „individuality“, “creativity” …human character, feelings and emotions ...appearance ...health ...social roles and connections ...love and love relations ...making a professional choice ...sexual behavior They built skills of... …communication, expressing their feelings and emotions ...establishing social contacts ...analyzing themselves and setting goals for the future ...writing a resume ...managing own time ...drafting their own budgets and understood that... ...it is important to appreciate individuality of other people, in order to make communication fruitful ...people are both different and similar to each other ...healthy life style has a crucial meaning for success

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Youth club “How to Become Successful”, Smila / Cherkaska oblast

Nastia “After I was done with the training course, I summarized for myself what these trainings have given me.

After the trainings I started to smile more, became more opened, sociable, I even found answers to some questions.

This is why, I am very glad that I attended these trainings and that I changed”

“Our trainers and myself represented our club at the open space during our one-day visit to Kyiv. I liked it a lot and it was the first time I realized myself, which never happened before…

“My name is Nastia. I used to visit youth club “How to Become Successful”. I liked it a lot, even though at the very beginning I was very reserved and quiet.

I attended first trainings without any particular aim, just so I wouldn’t have to sit at home with music and headphones.

And then, it simply got interesting and the headphones became a secondary habit. Together with club participants we went to the movies, pizzeria, played bowling. We discussed various topics and this is how I unlearnt how to be all alone and to myself, as I am a pretty reserved person.”

…When people would suggest a topic for discussion, a topic that interests or excites them a lot, I, of course, was just quietly sitting on my chair.

But one girl mentioned a question that touches me as well, so I wanted to discuss it in detail. “ And the question was “How to find yourself” (because, really, how does one finds themselves in this life; some people do and some people don’t).

Without thinking to much into it, I joined that team. It gathered 10 people in total and at first we were all silent, but I felt emerging confidence in myself, stood up and suggested to start with something and hence I was involved into this discussion from the very beginning and up until the end…

…And in the end, when we had to tell the others about our topic and present our plan, I was the one to do it”

“After I was done with the training course, I summarized for myself what these trainings have given me.

After the trainings I started to smile more, to be more opened, sociable, I even found answers to some questions.

This is why, I am very glad that I attended these trainings and that I changed”

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NGO “New Family” Chernivtsi

Youth club “We+”

Youth trainer: Yana Chykal 1st club’s meeting: March 4, 2015 Delivered 28 trainings within the program “How to become successful” Organized workshops and outdoor activities Participants: 23 young people, including children and young people coming from families that face difficult life circumstances; active young people

FIND OUT MORE contact Yana Chykal at tretyakova_q@bk.ru

“Participants became more opened. They learnt to respect each other’s opinions, they learnt to cooperate. Participants also engaged their friends. They would express aggression towards other people less. They enjoyed attendance of the trainings.

They became support for me”, – Yana Chykal

Yana Chykal youth trainer “Starting from the very beginning of functioning of the club, the biggest number of participants were ‘children of the streets’.

Young people were motivated to come to the club, since there they could receive information that was interesting for them, communicate with each other in a pleasant environment, drink tea in a warm room, be heard…”, – Yana Chykal on creation of the club

Young people learnt more about... …family and family relations …building relationships with other people …social roles …ways of expressing civic position …professions, process of searching for a job, work ethics …types of responsibility …fundamentals of household They built skills of... …expressing their feelings and emotions in a proper way …finding strategies of behavior …setting goals …reflecting their own skills and capabilities …writing a resume …resisting manipulations …forming their budget …time management and understood that... …parenting is a is a huge responsibility that people should get ready for …education may become the first step to success and thus should be given serious consideration …fruitful communication between people demands respect towards opinions of each other

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Youth club ”Step”

Youth club ”Felicita”

Youth club ”Perspective”

Charity fund «Live Heart» Voznesensk / Mykolaiv Oblast

City Center of Social Services for Families, Children and Youth Liubotyn / Kharkiv Oblast

Youth Development Center «МІSТ» Ternopil

Youth trainers: Igor Trydub, Igor Orlov

1st club’s meeting: March 3, 2015

Delivered 23 trainings within the training program “How to Become Successful” Organized workshops, excursions

1st club’s meeting: November 18, 2014

Participants: 18 young people, including children and young people coming from families that face difficult life circumstances, IDP’s families; active young people

Delivered 10 trainings within the training program ”How to Become Successful”

Youth trainer: Khrystyna Bila 1st club’s meeting: January 22, 2014 Delivered 14 trainings within the training program “How to Become Successful”

Delivered 20 trainings within the training program “How to Become Successful” Organized workshops, excursions, open air events, movie sessions Participants 15 children living in a center of social and psychological rehabilitation

Organized workshops, excursions, meetings with interesting people

Organized workshops, excursions

Participants: 15 young people, including children and young people deprived of parental care; active young people

Participants: 32 young people, including children and young people deprived of parental care

FIND OUT MORE visit the social network page of the club vk.com/club_feli4ita

“Khmelnytskyi” separate division of the charity fund “Live Heart” Khmelnytskyi

Youth trainers: Oleksiy Shelyst, Alla Sheremet, Olga Suprun

1st club’s meeting: November 27, 2014

Youth trainers: Dmytro Pronin, Tania Pavlovska

Youth club ”Young Life”

FIND OUT MORE contact Igor Trydub at igortridub1990@gmail.com

FIND OUT MORE contact Khrystyna Bila at kristinawhite@mail.com

FIND OUR MORE visit the social network page of the club vk.com/younglife_km

Youth for Youth: promoting rights, transforming lives

Project “Youth for Youth: promoting rights – transforming lives” is implemented with the financial support of the Embassy of Finland in Ukraine

During October 2014 – June 2014 activities of 12 youth clubs were supported through mini-grants The costs for mini-grants were collected

by Partnership for Every Child thanks to the crowdfunding platform GlobalGiving 12 project participants received mini-grants with the total value of approximately UAH 62 000 the average amount of one grant is around UAH 5200 The most common expenses covered by the mini-grants are the following: organization of excursions, tickets to museums, theatres; stationery goods; coffee, tea and sweets for coffeebreaks; print outs; organization of celebrations within the youth clubs; presents for the participants; board games; printed photos from the youth clubs meetings; public transport tickets for the participants

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