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TjejjourYOUNG WOMENS SHELTER
Beatrice Unander-Scharin
YOUNG WOMENS SHELTERS
• First young women's shelter, Stockholm, 1996
• A place created by young women for young women
• Cooperation with womens shelters or separate organisations
• About 60 young womens shelters in Sweden
• Members of Roks or SKR (38 in Roks)
• Support for young women who have been victims of violence
• Empowerment
• Preventive work against violence and oppression of young women
• Preventive work in schools
• Young-womens-groups
YOUNG WOMENS SHELTERS
GOALS• Listen
• Allow her to tell her story without being questioned or judged
• Help her understand feelings of guilt and shame
• Help her see and take advantage of her rights
• Help her see how she can improve her situation
• Question the norms that limit her life
Roks youth women's sheltersIN NUMBERS
• Full-time employes - 6 (0,4 per organisation)
• Part-time employes - 11 (0,7 per organisation)
• Active members - 299 (14,3 per organisation)• Girls in contact - 4 045 (270 per organisation)
Reasons for contacting the shelter
• Violence - 1 148 (76,5 per organisation)
• Mental ill-health - 1 992 (142,3 per organisation)
• Sexuality - 666 (47,6 per organisation)
• Other - 1860 (124 per organisation)
GOALS FOR TJEJJOUREN.SE
• To empower young women
• To make young womens shelters visable and to work together nationally with a united voice
• A meetingpoint where young people already spend alot of time
• Enabeling contact from girls all over the country
• Allow young women to be seen and heard
TJEJGUIDEN – GIRLSGUIDEYoung womens informationbank
• Informationbank with around 100 texts about:
• Violence and sexual violence
• Self-destruktivness/anorexia
• Anxiety
• Sex
• Love
• The woman's body
All the text are written with a young womans perspective
TJEJJOUREN.SE IN NUMBERS
• Between 400 and 1200 unique visitors a day
• Between 10 and 20 questions a day
• 180 000 unique visitors the first year
• 60 young womens shelters who chat and answers
e-mails everyday
