Description of organisation

Sempre a Frente Foundation carries out programs in the area of prevention, psychological education and promotion of active citizenship for young people since 2010.
In order to fulfill Foundation’s mission and main goals, we realize different projects and initiatives financed from external sources.

All projects and initiatives are strictly connected with our areas of interest, which are:
-Strengthening psychosocial skills of young people
-Promoting the idea of voluntary work and entrepreneurship
-Developing psychosocial and vocational competences of adults

From 2010 in our Lubelskie voivodenship we have completed research projects on subjects of needs of young people aged 14-19 years and released them in the form of publications:
- "Non-lessons about non-tolerance" with Association Homo Faber (2019);
- “Youth Rangers” (2018);
- „Supporting Young Initiatives. Helper for those interested” (2017);
- „Safe in the Net” with Norwegian Organization MøreogRomsdalfylkeskommune (2016);
-“Shaping social competences. A guide for people working with adolescents” (2015);
-„Youth Development Groups Programme” conducted with Irish Organization Foroige (2014);
-"Youth Toolkit" (2014);
-“We need information” (2013);
-“Let's talk!” (2013);
-“Involvement of Youth in Lublin” (2012).

Through our actions we support children, youth and adults in personal development and help them to gain key social competences. We help to shape psychosocial abilities, to stimulate constant update of knowledge and to adjust to labor market dynamics. Using non-formal education philosophy we encourage young people to active social attitude and promote social responsibility, initiative and enterprise. We promote volunteering and non-formal education as a way to get skills desirable by young people. We support youth active participation in social life by including them into the frames of structured dialogue.
- We run Regional Information Point of Eurodesk Lublin
- Since 2011 until 2017 we were consultation point of EU educational program Erasmus+ and Youth in Action, since 2018 we are Regional Information Point of Erasmus+ Program
- We are a supporting member of Polish Council of Youth Organizations
- We used to run an information portal for local NGOs: www.lublin.ngo.pl

We work mostly in 3 program sections:
- Daily Support Facility for children- Day Care Facility "Kowalska 3"
- Youth Support Center “Przystanek Sempre”
- Youth Information and Development Center

Day Care Facility “Kowalska 3”
-Conducting classes of general development, prevention, social therapy in a constant group of children in age 5-9 yo from Monday to Friday and during ocassional events
-Providing psychological and educational support to children
-Conducting ongoing cooperation with families within the Parent Club

Youth Support Center “Przystanek Sempre”
Youth Development Groups: regular weekly meetings with youth in age 10-18 yo
Goals:
–to raise psychosocial competences,
–to get psychological support from peers and the youthworkers
We also do:
-Psychological and educational individual support to youth
-Ongoing cooperation with families
-Workshops for parents and group trainers (also international)
-Psychosocial counseling

Youth Information and Development Center:
- conducting free consultations, psychosocial counseling and vocational trainings, interpersonal trainings, individual and group work for youth from schools and students from universities
- organizing free workshops, information sessions, in the foundation and outdoor
- implementing international education and prevention projects
- recruiting for Internship/voluntary programmes for students and graduates
-organizing regional, national and international trainings in working with difficult youth and their families with fewer opportunities.

Eurodesk Regional Information Point
-Giving information with a view to increasing social and professional activity
- Making eurolessons for youth in schools about voluntary, work and studies abroad and also about other mobilities and youth’s possibilities;
-Promoting the idea of mobility in European Union and generally abroad;
-Making a free consultations for youth and students about diverse Erasmus+ projects and other mobilities;
-Creating information meetings and local events.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Economic obstacles
• Geographical obstacles
• Social obstacles