There is such a thing as youth work. Things that go away as working on youth, winning young people, building a new generation.
Efforts that go on thinking that the youth at the center of youth work are just like the young people we are dealing with are barren, blocked, with insufficient solution proposals, contrary to the spirit of the time, contrary to the wisdom of the values we believe in.
When we say working, we think that it will be enough, but unfortunately it is not enough. It would be an understatement to even say that it is not enough, because it does not happen.
In order to solve a problem, it is first necessary to accept that it is a problem. If you, as a foundation, association or other institution, see yourself as sufficient and others inadequate, or if you think that you are not understood, and even if you think that others do not understand you, so that's that.
With this perspective, nothing changes.
You stand in your place. Counting in place means going backwards every day. Because when those around you keep moving forward, you are going backwards. Let me try to explain the issue a little more.
In a city where tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of young people live, it is a mistake to do some work with fifty-hundred young people and consider oneself sufficient. It is a mistake to reach thousands of young people for a short time and say that we are doing our job properly. It is a mistake to say let's get to know the land and not be able to dominate the land, to talk about the characteristics of the new generation and not to develop methods and methods suitable for these features.
Not being able to follow the innovations of the age, not being able to read the spirit of the time, being behind the technological developments is a great shortcoming. You decide what it is to make the methods and methods of forty years ago a taboo, to have the delusion that we wrote the book, to try the same things over and over again and expect different results.
We need a new communication culture. We need a new understanding, improved methods and methods that are suitable for our age and that we can reach the new generation.
So what can we do?
Believe me, there are so many things to do that it is not enough to tell, but we cannot talk about them. Because there is no environment where we can talk about them. If it does, the result reports are removed to dusty shelves. If those reports are read, no action can be taken. If action is taken in a few parts of the project, its continuity cannot be ensured. In other words, we are spinning around like a closet horse in an inextricable loop.
There is one aspect of the issue I mentioned before all this: he is much more troubled. Institutions, organizations and authorities that think they are doing youth work are not even aware of these problems. Those who are aware of it somehow either do not take it into account or do not have the energy to manage this mobility, but on the other hand, there is no problem that they accept. They have nothing left to do but to play civil society with some outdated defenses.
Will these things work out anyway? Of course it will get better, but for today we have no choice but to pray.
Those who neglect because we are going through difficult times should know that; The hard times don't end and sometimes the hard times get harder as time progresses.
What needs to happen for him is nothing but planning what to do today and taking action. We continue to wait with lots of prayers.