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Youth Support has had long standing connections with many different countries and
cultures. We have from the very beginning held a philosophy that we are part of a global
community and that the problems of Youth and the strengths of Youth have no boundaries.
Youth Support have been associated with the Society for Adolescent Medicine
(USA) and with the International Regional Chapter SAM
whose newsletter for many years formed part of our Journal on Adolescent Health and Welfare.
We have worked, held seminars or visited and attended conferences in USA, Canada,
Europe - France, Holland, Portugal, Italy - Russia, HongKong, Australia, Israel, Jamaica
and Cuba. But we have had particularly strong links with the following
countries -
Youth Support Jamaica - Where we have
had links with the Women's Centres of Jamaica Foundation - based in Trafalgar Road
Kingston - since 1985 and first visited them in 1986. On that visit Youth Support
also provided aid in terms of vaccines and antibiotics to help with the recent severe
flooding on the Island. Subsequently there have been numerous return visits - in
both directions - strengthening links between our two organisations and we have a regular
input into the peer counselling programme in Kingston.
Other Jamaican initiatives have included material aid to hospitals and clinics and to
individuals requiring basic assistance. We also have liaised with the Ministry of Health ,
with the University of the West Indies and the Family Planning board. Jamaican
Television and radio has reported on our activities.
In London we have supported young people of Jamaican origin,
are supporting University study and have given a grant for
a young sportsman to train in the USA on a basketball scholarship.
Youth Support Russia -
Youth Support - Russian
Projects and Youth Support - Urals - were born in 1987 and organised trips abroad for
schoolchildren, exchanges, health education, and professional support and training for
Russian health workers. The book 'Are you my sister, Mummy?' has been translated into
Russian. We have collaborated on work with young runaways and street children and
negotiated to set up a centre for abuse victims. Russian doctors have attend our
conferences with our support.
Ass. Youth Support Italia -
Youth Support
participated in the conference on adolescent mental health / emotional health in
Campobasso in May 1997 'L'Adolescenza della Mente'. Later that year there were serious
earthquakes in the regions of Marche and Umbria and Youth Support set up the 'Earthquake
Relief fund' which raised almost £8,000 to help some of the earthquake victims. We have
an album of photographs and a videotape of that work. Subsequently the long term
nature of the aftershocks provoked emotional problems in the victims and therefore a
research project looked at emotional trauma of quake victims -
particularly youth. This was reported on in our Conference on Trauma held by Youth Support in Fabriano (Ancona) in April 2000.(see
'Traumatic
Stress') We now have a centre in Marche where we can
also host meditation retreats and therapy linked to our
En-Kaku project.
Youth
Support USA. We
have had groups working with us in Los Angeles for a number of years and
in 2007 we officially became a
USA recognised
charity.
and
in Sweden a small but enthusiastic group have worked with us since the
very beginning in 1986. |