In the Angara region, centers for children and youth in difficult life situations will open after the contest, in four municipalities. Four programs from Tulun, Cheremkhovo, Svirsk and Irkutsk won, each offering its own approach to supporting young people and their surroundings. The new social centers should expand psychological, information and legal help and aid integration into society.
As a result of the competition for programs to organize centers for working with children and young people who find themselves in difficult life situations, centers will be opened in four municipalities of the Angara region.The winners were the Tulun City Public Organization for Supporting Social Youth Projects and Creative Initiatives “TULUN.ru,” which presented the program “Window to Cinema,” the Public Youth Movement “WE” from Cheremkhovo with the program “Sail of Hope,” as well as the Svirsk Youth Public Organization “Youth Wave,” which developed the program “Step Toward.” Also winning the competition was the program “Broaden the Circle! Juvenile Offender and His Environment: Skills of Constructive Interaction” of the Nonprofit Organization “Irkutsk Youth Human Rights Foundation ‘Juventa’.”
The creation of social centers will make it possible to expand work on providing psychological, informational, and legal services to people who have found themselves in difficult life situations, and will help the integration into society of young people who have found themselves in difficult life situations.
The competition was held as part of the implementation of the long-term target program of the Irkutsk Region, “Youth of the Irkutsk Region,” for 2011-2013. The winners will be awarded diplomas and valuable prizes worth 125,000 rubles each. The formal awards ceremony for the winners will take place in December 2013.
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region