Cultural Entrepreneurship, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Cooperation Completed

Innovative Reading Promotion Solutions for Lithuanian Libraries in Regard of Developing Social Relationships between Children and Youth with the Environment

Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library ·Lithuania

€198k

Grant awarded

Culture

Programme

20 July 2021

Signed

About this project

The main aim of the project is to implement an effective support mechanism for youth with behavioral and emotional difficulties, thus contributing to the improvement of their well-being and mental health. At the same time project will seek to strengthen community-based mental health services for young people in 9 project municipalities. This will be achieved through the establishment of an effective mechanism for the assistance - methods and integrated services to vulnerable youth (youth with behavioral and emotional difficulties) and their families. Expected project results: <ul> <li>Developed guidelines for an assistance mechanism that will help to improve the work of local professionals (in cooperation with 9 Lithuanian municipalities) with youth and their family members. The guidelines will include practical training methods and service descriptions - methodological advice for local professionals.</li> <li>In order to implement the established assistance mechanism, trainings will be organized and carried out in 9 municipalities for youth (youth with behavioral and emotional difficulties) and their families.</li> <li>In order to implement the developed aid mechanism methodology, aid mechanism implementation trainings will be carried out for 99 local specialists from 9 municipalities (Jurbarkas, Klaipėda district, Mažeikiai, Palanga, Plungė, Rietavas, Skuodas, Šilalė, Tauragė). After tese trainings all professionals will be prvided with an opportunity and all the necessary support to apply this method in their direct work with youth  in the most suitable environment.</li> </ul> This project will help to address various public health issues by reducing health inequalities. It will also help to strengthen the competencies of local professionals and will improve the quality of health services provided to youth from vulnerable groups.

Bilateral cooperation results

The Lithuanian partner group worked with the partner AS Black Book, conducting virtual meetings for the confirmation of essential decisions. The Norwegian partners formulated and presented the game concept, design guidelines, and a recommended literature list to be included in the game. During visits on April 20-23, 2022 (Lithuanian partners to Norwegian partners) and May 23-26, 2022 (Norwegian partners to Lithuanian partners), final coordination work on the game scenario took place. The joint Lithuanian partner research group prepared and conducted the study "Identification of Reading Skills and Social Relationship Issues of 5th-8th Grade Students." It was translated into English and provided to Black Book partners as material for the game development process. The Lithuanian partner group collectively formed the game's book collection (the list of literature was compiled considering recommendations suitable for the game from all partners' submitted literary works). Initially, the joint list consisted of around 60 book titles, but with the unanimous agreement of the partners, the optimal list now consists of 20 book titles. There is no possibility to continue cooperation with the Norwegian partner as they have ceased their activities.

Project partners

Black Book AS Donor project partner· Norway
Klaipėda County Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library Project partner· Lithuania
Kaunas County Public Library Project partner· Lithuania

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