The non – governmental organization “Youth Power” held professional training for the eight – secondary school pedagogues from the territory of Herzegovina – Neretva County during the period from 20 February to 22 February 2018. This training was held as part of the accreditation activities of the methodology program M, a youth program. This activity was carried out in cooperation with the Institute for education, the Pedagogical Institute and the Ministry of education, science, culture and sport of HNK.
During three days, the pedagogues had the opportunity to learn more about the violence in BiH, how much violence is represented in our society. Also, the pedagogues had an opportunity to get acquainted with the Youth program and plans for the next three years. During the second day of professional training, pedagogues discussed different positions in relation to violence, how teenagers are adolescents and what kind of parents they will be tomorrow and why it is essential to implement the peer education program at all. Pedagogues had an opportunity to train to plan activities at their school level in the next year. This project is supported by the Swiss Government and the OAK Foundation and is implemented with the support of CARE International, Balkans.
The second activity, held last week, is training for coordinators within the project “A comprehensive approach to youth engagement in the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence in the Western Herzegovina County area”. The aim of the training was to raise the skills of the coordinators who implement the project activities themselves and to familiarize the four local communities in the Western Herzegovina County area, regarding to get acquainted with young people who are active through youth engagement in this area. They also had an opportunity to get acquainted with the methodology of youth programs, the methodology for implementing peer-based workshops aimed at preventing violence among youth and domestic violence. The publication of this text is funded by the United States Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant, and the conclusions set out here belong to the authors and do not necessarily hold the opinion, findings and conclusions of the United States Ministries of Foreign Affairs.