The toolkit
Draft in a mentor or parent coach
In partnership with a range of municipalities, the Danish Centre for Prevention of Extremism and Realize have established a nationwide corps of mentors and parent coaches, specially trained to work with at-risk individuals and their relatives. Municipalities that do not have their own mentors and parent coaches can draft them in from participating municipalities where necessary.
Contact Therese Marie Dyrby, senior advisor, Realize, on e-mail tmd@rlz.dk
Methodology manual
Mentoring efforts, parent coaching and facilitation of carers networks are implemented using the ‘Solution-focused work on life skills’ method described in this methodology manual:
Download (in Danish) Mentorindsats, forældrecoaching og pårørendenetværk (opens in a new window)
Receive visits from young dialogue facilitators
The Danish Centre for Prevention of Extremism can organise visits from young dialogue facilitators where necessary. These dialogue facilitators will be able to visit schools or clubs, for example, to discuss topics that help promote the self-understanding and civic citizenship of local youngsters. This includes topics such as identity, family relations, self determination, negative social control, participation in society, freedom and responsibilities, obligations and rights, pro and anti-social communities, equal opportunities, discrimination, friend and enemy images, intolerance and extremism.
Contact the Danish Centre for Prevention of Extremism on +45 72 14 22 14, or send an e-mail to ekstremisme@siri.dk
Social work and crime prevention methods
Vidensportalen – the Social Knowledge Portal – and the National Board of Social Services describe a number of crime prevention methods that are, also relevant for preventing extremism, where some of the same challenges and risk factors may be at work.
Go to the Social Knowledge Portal website (opens in a new window)
Go to the National Board of Social Services website (opens in a new window)
Partnership between authorities and civil society
The relationship between authorities and civil society stakeholders offers major potential – but a number of potential problems as well – as regards cooperation and partnership on prevention.