Micro Participatory Budget 2023

The quiz dinner is a game meal in which we want to address prevention issues with young people and their parents.

Target audience

Teens - parents

Your project in detail

Through this project, we wish to weave a support network for parenthood́ which we hope will increase the qualitý of life for parents and children in the neighborhood. We also wish to register as a renewable and transferable pilot project in other neighborhoods for which similar needs would be identified and which also have an institutional fabric wishing to benefit from a more coordinated approach to mobilizing their resources and skills. Each axis will have its own specific intervention methodology, in order to meet the needs of the target groups and the different types of expertise required. For this call for projects, we are seeking funding for the third axis only. That's why we're giving priority to this one. However, the other two axes are presented at the end of this document.

We've focused on the Dîners Quizz concept, as it proposes a number of notions that tie in well with our focus on adolescence. First of all, the informal aspect of a meal offers an interesting framework for encouraging the participation of those concerned, and developing discussions that are not addressed within all families. This correlates with our vision of opening up dialogue within families, breaking taboos and creating intra-family links. Secondly, teenagers make up a large part of our audience during our various drop-in sessions and events in the neighborhood. Our animators maintain good contact with them. Conversely, we have little access to their parents, most of whom work or look after the household. So, by setting up the Dîners Quizz we aim to meet and build links between some of the Bourdonnette residents and the center's socio-cultural activities team. Finally, this activity provides an opportunity to gather important information about family life, the strength of cultural ties, beliefs, customs and habits within households. This information will enable us to reflect on and adjust our interventions at the center and in the neighborhood. Objectives of the Dinner Quizzes To guarantee the link between these events and the overall project, and with a view to making them sustainable, we have defined specific objectives for the Dîners Quizz. - Enable contact between families and facilitators, and between families and experts on the various topics covered at the dinners, in order to create a supportive network accessible to the public. - Provide a safe, non-judgmental space for local families to talk about current issues and/or topics rarely discussed within the family. - Develop the participatory notion of community health among local families, as well as among animation professionals and experts in the various themes of the Dîners Quizzes. - Raise awareness of the difficulties experienced by Bourdonnette families, not only among families, but also among social work professionals and thematic experts. These objectives are rooted in our desire to develop new family-centered spaces and integrate them into the center's various activities. In addition, they define the role of the facilitators during these evenings, which is to build and develop relationships with users, as well as to set up and test a facilitation approach that encourages the participation of those concerned and enables participants to be referred directly to resource persons (the experts). As the Dîner Quizz is a certified project, we have to follow the relevant training to be able to develop this axis. It is therefore planned that part of the Centre Socioculturel team will undergo training in order to learn the methodology and then be able to use it, while meeting the requirements of the label.

When will your project be rolled out?

From January 2024 to June 2024 - 6 quiz dinners

Amount requested

4000 CHF