Youth with alternative care experience have equal opportunities to develop, to be a voice and to make changes through involvement, empowerment and support.
Power4Youth off to a camp meeting in Amsterdam
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile… how cool is that!
Yet again, Bernard Grima, Jean Kennedy, Hava Ryustem and Rinske Mansens, members from Power4Youth will be meeting with UEF(Universal Education Foundation) to discuss the vision of learning for well-being. UEF vision is about realizing our full potential. It builds on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, it reflects the four pillars defined by the report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together, and it supports the World Health Organization definition of health: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Well-being is realizing one’s unique potential through physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social development … in relation to self, others, and the environment.
UEF definition of well-being is congruent with the definitions of many international organizations.
Dear Youth Network,
Power4Youth is be one of most evolving European youth in care networks; volunteering so youth with alternative care experience can have equal opportunities to develop, to be a voice and to make changes through involvement, empowerment and support. Together with other dedicated youths from Bulgaria, Norway, Croatia, Estonia, Ireland, Malta and The Netherlands, Power4Youth is building up a platform for young people in or from care to help them reach their full potential. We believe and endorse throughout our work: diversity, participation, commitment, inspiration and accountability.
Founded in Vilnius, Lithuania, in October 2009, Power4Youth turned out to be the source of youth energy for youths with alternative care experience across Europe. We are a group of young people from all types of care backgrounds, foster care, institutional care, SOS Children’s Village care and foster brothers and sisters. We run the network ourselves through a Board and a Committee structure and hope to apply for core funding and register soon so we can grow even more and reach out to other young people with care experience.
It all started in with personal life-skill training at The Hague (in the Netherlands) in October 2008. We believe that you are the expert of your own life experience and that expertise should be celebrated. The meeting in The Hague helped us build our skills so that we know how to use our voice but it also was the start of some beautiful friendships. Through Power4Youth, youths have, and will have a chance to meet with other young people from all over Europe, listen to their stories, learn and help out each other.
So, I encourage you to head to our Power4Youth website – www.power4youth.net – and get in touch with the team, subscribe to the group’s newsletters and stay connected with us on Facebook fun page!
Greetings from Malta in Europe,
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The first Eurochild Policy Working Group (PWG) will focus on activities during the European Year against poverty & social exclusion, Eurochild’s Work Plan 2010 and the EU strategy on the rights of the child.
On January 26th and 27th 2010, Eurochild (www.eurochild.org) is holding a two day event in the European Parliament called: Europe’s children in care – what role for the EU?
Launch of Eurochild’s survey on children without parental care and round table discussion European Parliament, Brussels.
This will include a panel debate in the European Parliament where P4Y Board Rinske Mansens and other team members Bernard Grima and Marit Ter Haak will be taking part in the panel debate. The three Power4Youth representatives will attend this event and take part in a full day’s meetings with the Thematic Working Group for Children in Alternative Care.
Power4Youth is now a member of Eurochild
The Thematic Working Group for Children in Alternative Care is a group of Eurochild members who have an interest in working towards the best outcomes for Children in Alternative Care. Details are available at www.eurochild.org. Jean Kennedy represented Power4Youth at the Thematic Working Group meeting held in Cyprus, November 2009.
Eurochild is publishing European survey on children without parental care and launching it at the European Parliament event. It will be for discussion over the two weeks prior to the event. read more…
Further reference: www.eurochild.org – events