Tjejjour YOUNG WOMENS SHELTER Beatrice Unander-Scharin.

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

CONTACT

Beatrice [email protected]