Jongeren participatie Bindkracht10

Een studente Urban & Cultural Geography onderzocht in deze master-thesis de participatie van jongeren naar aanleiding van Bindkracht10 (een Nijmeegse organisatie voor oa jongerenwerk). Hieronder de conclusie uit het rapport en het hele rapport uit najaar 2018.

In conclusion it became clear that with the findings of this study it can be said that youth professionals are on the right track in involving the needs and opinions of young people into their work and youth (work) policy. In terms of youth policy being concerned with young people’s needs and opinions, there is still some ground to cover when it comes to letting young people participate in a ‘true’ matter, and not only on paper. In order to fully incorporate young people’s wishes and their possibility to carry out the capability of having control over their neighbourhood, several improvements must be implemented in the daily work of youth professionals. One of these implementations could entail real life returning meetings or digital meetings via an App between youth professionals and young people to evaluate previous activities or plans. A second recommendation includes more collaboration between the different youth professionals, also with the platform of Jimmy’s, so that ‘good practices’ can be shared and needs and opinions of young people are taken seriously and do not end in a ‘paper reality’.

rapport: Reijmersdal,_Maartje_van_1