The Need of Interdisciplinary Partnership in Recreation Area to Work With Street Youth

Abstract

Both Europe and Lithuania aim at involving youth into the activities, encouraging their activeness and participation in social life. The article analyzes the social work with street youth. The initiatives of social work in informal environments of a city streets by applying interactive methods, interfering with creative-artistic or sports leisure activities are discussed. The results of the research carried out highlighted the need of interdisciplinary partnership in recreation area to work with street youth.

Socio-educational Aspects of Recreational Activities of a Youth Worker: Grounded Theory

“…Focusing on the obtained research data, the socio-educational aspects of the youth worker's activities are inseparable from the interdependence and coherence of the creation of a safe, enjoyable non-formal leisure environment and the performed recreational activities. As both, the concept of recreation is not widely understood in Lithuania (Lisauskienė, Aleksienė, 2017) and open work with young people is a recently established way of working with young people with fewer opportunities (Balšaitytė, 2019), stereotypes prevail in the society that prevents understanding and evaluating the aspects of socio-educational work. In the non-formal leisure environment, recreational activities have an indirect but much broader socioeducational impact on young people with opportunities than other activities, so it is assumed that the activities of a youth worker have a great power to change the lives of YFO.…”