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Its goal was to create better opportunities for participation of young people in prisons. Through non-formal education, the staff members acquired new professional competencies in working with youngsters and skills in project management. As a result of the training, 9 youth projects have been launched in 4 prisons in Estonia. The young people involved in those projects developed trustful relations with the staff supporting them and a willingness to search for possibilities to move on with their lives. Through dissemination, the model applied in other areas and cooperation at the European level has been started in the form of an international project aiming at collecting good practices in various countries concerning the involvement of young people in penal institutions.

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