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2. Youth Work in Sweden
• No national legislation for open youth work
• Local parliament decides
• Financed by municipality – paid staff
• Big variation in aims and work
• Youth Centres
3. Youth Work in Sweden
• Tradition focus on “leisure”
• Focus on activities as such (not as “means”)
• “Leisure time – leaders” (2-year vocational training)
• “Meaningful leisure time activities”
But at the same time:
• “Boys in street corners”, segregation, poverty, …
• Unemployment, school drop-outs, …
4. Youth Work in Sweden
• A “double agenda”
• “Activities without a cause”
Ø Weak identity/professional role
Ø Low status
Ø Small resources
5. Background KEKS
Started in Mölndal
Lacking:
• A coherent idea of youth work
• Clear and measurable aims
• Reliable follow-up
Had difficulties with:
• Staff working in different directions
• Unclear professional identity
• No follow up
6. Youth centres should be the arena where
young people get possibilities and support
to fulfil their needs:
• Of feeling secure
• Of fellowship
• Of having an own
identity
• To express themselves
• Of experiencing positive
expectations
• To influence / make a
difference
• To take responsibility
• To experience justice
7. KEKS 2005
Three municipalities that wanted to:
• Create clear and measurable aims
• Aims that where applicable in everyday youth work
• Aims that focused on the effects on young people
• Aims that took target group and costs into account
• Speak with a common voice
• Learn from each other
Ø Develop youth work together!
8. KEKS 2015
• Network of 42 municipality departments
• Financed by membership fees
• Governed by a board (one seat for each member)
• Common…
o ”idea” on youth work and “quality”
o goals/aims
o system for documentation, follow up and evaluation
o work on the development of competence and new
methods
9. Our idea of youth work
Our over all aim of youth work is to support the personal
and social development of young people through non-
formal learning.
In order to do this, our “idea of youth work” is that youth
work should:
“Stimulate and support activities
that are based on and requires
the active engagement and responsibility
of young people.”
10. KEKS
We also…
• Engage in research projects
• Cooperate with “youth worker educators”
• Support our members in doing international youth work
• Arrange open conferences on youth work
• Take active part in the (inter-)national discussion on
youth policy and youth work
• …
11. Quality development (according to KEKS)
The purpose of a quality system is:
to make sure that work is at all stages and continually
knowledge based, planned, outcomes focused/effective
and evaluated and that the result of the evaluation is
used to improve work.
12. Quality development
Quality system?
• A set of combined tools designed for gathering and
handling knowledge on how different ways of work
(pre-settings and processes) corresponds with
different outcomes in a way that enables adequate
support actions to be taken.
14. Quality development
In order to learn from our successes and mistakes and
gradually improve our work we must be able to compare
• how different ways of work
corresponds with
• Different outcomes
Ø A comparison based on facts, not on speculations
15. Quality assesment
KEKS quality assurance system has four different parts
• “The logbook” – our web based system for
documentation
• An annual meeting place survey
• A group survey
• A form for key figures
16. Documentation
• The Logbook
• A web based documentation system that today has over
300 users
• Tool for documentation
• Tool for planning of groups / group activities
• To help communication and reflection
• Ground for analysis
17. The Logbook
What is being documented?
• Hours of activities (open/groups)
• Number of visitors
• Activity hours produced by youth
• Number of producers
• What happened during this shift
• Analyse of the shift
19. Groups
What is being documented?
• Basic information about the group (upload doc)
• Description (Target group, purpose, activity)
• Planning
• Follow up
• Meeting statistics (Hours, number of participants)
22. The Logbook
System for documentation of Youth Work
• Web based documentation system
• Easy access through computer and smart devices
• Documentation of work done togeither with young persons
• Gather information to use for follow up and development of youth
work
• Make communication between youth workers easier
• International system – improve youth work together – the same core
principle of youth work
25. Annual meeting place survey
• CA 35 questions about:
o Gender, age, background, school results, etc
o Safety and treatment (in relation to staff and visitors)
o Attractiveness and accessibility
o Influence and taking active responsibility
• 2015 - 6000 answers from 140 meeting places/youth
centres
26. Group survey
• Answered at the end of each semester/project
• CA 20 questions about
o Gender, age, background, etc
o What “steps” they have been active in (planning,
preparations, etc.)
o How they have perceived the process (“ownership”, etc.)
o Learning
27. Process of participation
• Idea
• Planning
• Preparation
• Realisation
• Follow up
The more steps that you are a part of, the higher level of
participation.
28. Youth participation
A perception of different feelings during the process
• Being met with respect
• Being a resource
• Being responsible
• Being part in a democratic group
• …
Ø And the stronger your perceptions are,
the higher is the degree of participation
29. Form for key figures
Is filled in every year, reporting
o Staff hours
o Staff costs
o Activity costs
o Number of young people living in the area
30. Every year…
the figures from “The logbook”, results from meeting place
survey, results from group surveys and the key figures
• Are compiled to a total result
o For each youth centre
o For each municipality/member
• Presented variable by variable and divided on boys/girls
o In relation to the results from previous years
o In relation to the KEKS average
o In relation to the “Good enough” – levels
31. The Youth Centre
Goal KEKS Result
Divia%on from equal gender balance (The Logbook) 10% 16% 12% 1,04
Index Safety and Treatment (mp survey) 90% 91% 91% 1,00
Index influence and responsibility (mp survey) 50% 53% 56% 1,02
Share of producers (The Logbook) 30% 25% 27% 1,23
Divia%on from equal gender balance (Surveys) 10% 6% 13% 0,95
Share of ac%vity %me produced by youth (The Logbook) 60% 29% 24% 0,96
Index par%cipa%on (group survey) 75% 75% 68% 0,96
Index learning (group survey) 85% 70% 81% 1,07
32. These results…
are then analysed in different settings (e.g. staff, young people,
politicians) and used as a basis for
• Setting goals for the coming year (what figures/indexes
should be improved)
• Development of competence (seminars, courses, etc.)
• Development of work methods
• Further research
• Showing the effects of youth work
33. 33
Documentation
in the Logbook
Youth Work
Actions
Analysis
and reflection
Follow-up
surveys
… staff
… youth
Development of:
• Competences
• Methods
• Organization
Idea/Aims
34. Better understanding…
This made it possible to pinpoint the crucial factor
for successful youth work:
The active participation of young people
And to set common goals / “Good enough – levels”
35. Goals/Aims
We argue that participation leads to positive effects on:
• Health
• Resilience
• Non-formal learning
Which in turn leads to:
• Better school results
• Better access to the labour market
• A better life
36. Common aims – “Good enough – levels”
Gender balance 40 %
Index, Safety and treatment 90 %
Index, Influence and taking responsibility 50 %
Share of young people that produces activities 30 %
Share of activity time produced by young people 60 %
Index, Participation (among “Producers”) 75 %
Index, Learning (among “Producers”) 85 %
Average answer on survey (1 – 5 scale) 4,3
Total relative key figure (including economy) 1,0
37. Quality assurance systems
Makes a difference
We can see
• that our old members deliver higher quality youth
work than our newer members
• that our members strengthen their identity and
position in relation to others
38. Some tendencies
• More projects and group activities
– less “drop-in youth centres”
• Fewer, but bigger youth centres
• Focus on inclusion and norm criticism
• Focus on gender issues
39. Success criteria
• A common idea on youth work
• Common measurable aims for youth work
• The ability to deliver a meaningful “receipt” on the
outcomes of work in relation to costs
• Networking on all “levels” (politicians, heads of
office and staff) and in different constellations
40. Success criteria
• We work (not just talk) together in a common
system
• A “strong” system that corresponds with the idea
• A (self-)critical approach and strong focus on
development
• … not “in defence of…”
