Forum-theater: how youth workers in Zaporizhzhia mastered innovative methods for working with IDP youth

On May 31, 2025, a one-day study visit was held in Zaporizhzhia for community workers who work with youth, including internally displaced persons.

This time, the focus was on forum theater, an interactive method that allows not only to talk about problems, but to live them in a safe space. The training participants tried themselves as spectators and actors, discussed social challenges faced by IDP youth, and looked for ways to overcome them.

📘 You can read the key findings of the visit in the results carousel.

📎 The organizers also prepared a practical memo on how to use forum theater in working with adolescents and young IDPs: https://shorturl.at/6C0LH

🔹 The study visits are implemented by Young Agents of Change (Ukraine) within the framework of the international project “Blue Hearts”, with the support of: The 🇱🇹AY Institute (Lithuania), 🇷🇴Asociatia CPDIS (Romania), 🇵🇱Fundacja Nowy Staw (Poland), and funding from the European Union.