Life Skills Education is urgently needed in the formal education in the Balkans to build skills of the future generations to develop healthy relationships based on gender equality, to understand their physical and emotional development and to address all forms of violence in their everyday lives.
CARE’s gender transformative education program (YMI – Young Men Initiative) has been a documented success in the Western Balkans. The heart of YMI is Program Y which is focused on transforming the school environment to one that supports and nurtures gender equality and promotes a culture of non-violence.
The case study scrutinizes the process of development and piloting of the model for the prevention of youth radicalization and extremism (Program Y+) that was conducted within the YMI project, capturing core impact elements on youth, parents, teachers, and other relevant stakeholders/community members.
The Program Y policy brief offers information on the relevance of introducing programs based on the development of life skills and an overview of the key results achieved through the implementation of the comprehensive health promotion and violence prevention program – Young Men Initiative. The results presented in this document are extracted from evaluation studies […]
