BRIDGE – Building a Resourceful International Youth Diversion Group for Exchanging Best Practices Across Europe is an Erasmus+ programme implemented by Terre des hommes Hellas, Halt Netherlands (coordinator), and Foróige Ireland. The project aims to strengthen diversion approaches to child and youth offending by promoting restorative practices, reintegration, and the prevention of stigma for children and young people.
Through European cooperation and the exchange of best practices between the Netherlands, Ireland, and Greece, BRIDGE seeks to empower professionals, improve child and youth justice policies, and promote more effective and humane responses outside the criminal justice system.
Countries of Implementation:
Greece, Netherlands, Ireland
Target Beneficiaries:
Child and Youth justice professionals
Policy makers
Social workers, psychologists, child and youth support practitioners
Children and young people at risk of entering the penal justice system
Organisations working on child and youth offending and diversion
Objectives:
Promote and strengthen alternatives to judicial proceedings for young people.
Exchange and develop best European practices on Youth Diversion.
Enhance restorative and socially just approaches to youth behaviour.
Prevent the stigma associated with justice involvement and support reintegration.
Build transnational cooperation among professionals and organisations.
For information on the implementation of BRIDGE in Greece contact: Panagiota Kanellopoulou – [email protected]
In collaboration with:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
