"6 partners will exchange best practice to develop a common understanding of positive parenting, attachment theory, positive practices and simulations in parenting awareness to up-skill those working with young people in order to address the Europe 2020 agenda regarding poverty and social exclusion in terms of addressing early school leaving and improvement of academic attainment in young people. Aim: to create a best practice training resource (BPTR) representing a synergy between partners from different cultural backgrounds, working in different fields of education, training and youth. The BPTR will be useful for those working in Higher Education, Youth Work, School Education and in a health and youth related setting.Objective: to create a resource of best practice non-formal parenting awareness training and support for young people in each partner language. This resource will include a comprehensive evaluation of the different practices exchanged and exploited during the lifetime of the project. At each partnership meeting (6 ), the host partner will present 2 one-day workshops of best training practice: how to help young people explore issues around parenting, pregnancy, Perinatal Mental Health and parent-child bonding (attachment theory). Each workshop will include a contribution from a young person about their experience having been the recipient of the host's workshops prior to the meeting. This resource will be presented to 240 attendees at events held July 2021.Context / Background:Early School Leaving and Low Academic Achievement is a priority of the Europe 2020 agenda, in terms of addressing issues of poverty and social exclusion. Poor early attachment underpins poor emotional resilience and other factors that contribute to early school leaving and social exclusion. “Attachment theory states that a strong emotional and physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver is critical to personal development. John Bowlby first coined the term as a result of his studies involving the developmental psychology of children from various backgrounds: https://www.psychologistworld.com/developmental/attachment-theory”.6 participants:PADM (UK): working in perinatal mental health and fostering emotional resilience in young people.BUCOVINA (Ro): working with the School Inspectorate of Suceava.IRIS (Po): Foundation Institute of Social Re-Integration supporting new reforms in non-formal education.OPENEUROPE (Es): education and training centre offering informal and non-formal learning opportunities to young people and youth workers.European Development Foundation (Bg): works for civil society development, supporting innovative practices, education and training of children and young people.Kilcooley Womens Centre (NI, UK): Works primarily with socially disadvantaged women, children and families, to help improve their life chances and deliver high level outcomes.Description of Activities:Each partner will bring 2 persons to each externally hosted learning activity/transnational meeting; each will host a learning/transnational meeting. All partners: recruit and deliver to 60 PAFYP trainees and 600 young people in total.Methodology:Each partner will prepare 2 one-day workshops in presenting their best training practice; emphasis being on ""bite-size"" learning activities that can be practised, taken away, implemented and evaluated prior to the next round of learning activity.Evaluation to take place immediately after each meeting. Partners will share their learning with colleagues who will evaluate the shared learning. Each participant will complete learner diaries following each partnership meeting to record impact of the learning on their own personal and professional development. Local delivery of the workshops (translated into own language) will also be evaluated in order to address ""fitness for purpose"".Results:Short bite-size learning workshops; implementing the workshops upon return from the partnership meeting and evaluating them will build substantive records regarding the impact of widening participation of the workshops within partners' own working practices, and further afield to stakeholders in the field of youth. Impact:We will present an evaluated resource of shared best training practice at the final local conferences and make available on the project web site. Partners will make recommendations and complete a report of activities regarding impact of the learning packs with impact on young people's mental wellbeing measured using Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale (WEMWBS). Each partner will form a local stakeholder committee to build bridges between people in need and our specialised services to support future sustainability initiatives.Longer term benefits:We will explore the potential for developing an accredited common training programme mapped to the EQF. Long term, the outputs of the project will be embedded in the daily practice of each partner."