Empowerment Programs for young Women with Crisis Experience

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Empowerment Programs for young Women with Crisis
Experience
Focusing on Theme Project

• Bae, Hwa jung
• (Seoul Resource Center for Young Women)

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Young Women with Crisis Experience and Current
Society

• Young Women with Crisis Experience
• - Repeatedly experience various socio- cultural
  crises
• - Few return to home and society
• Lack of proper empowerment programs

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Young Women with Crisis Experience and Current
Society

• Shelters
• Center around protection only uniformed program/
  limited to providing meals and clothes
• Frequent replacement of staffs, financial
  difficulties, limited access to various resources
• Public Services
• - Insufficient policies for empowering teenage
  women

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Empowerment ProgramsTheme Project

• Goal To provide empowerment programs for teenage
  women with crisis experience in shelters
• - Provides various programs from gender
  perspective
• - Provides links to social resources

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Changes and Development

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Organizations 13(42) 17(56) 18(60)
Goal Financial support Healing and development Development and empowerment
Social Resources Shelters/medica services gtgt Professional counseling centers/ academic institutions (for monitoring) gtgt Feminist Culture and leadership
Problems Lack of motivation to analyze teenage womens needs   stigmatization
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The Characteristics of Empowerment Programs 1

• Programs that reflect the actual needs of
  recipients
• Expanded access to social resources
• Improvement on professionalism based on training
  and monitoring

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The Characteristics of Empowerment Programs 2
social/ education resources (seoul resource
center for young women)
Theoretical Guidance and Consultation
Monitoring Team
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The Characteristics of Empowerment Programs 2-1

• Empowerment Programs Theme Project

monitoring
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The Characteristics of Empowerment Programs 3

• Teenage women isolated from policies for women
  and social welfare services
• Positive possibilities potential abilities of
  teenage women / activists and the personnel of
  related organizations/ shelter programs
• Overcoming financial difficulties by linking
  local resources with the empowerment programs

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Activity 1

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Activity 2

• 1

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Activity 3

• 1

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Achievements

• Diversification of the shelter programs
• Acceleration of exchanging information and
  resources between shelters and NGOs
• Expansion of the contents in programs and
  professional organizations
• medical services, preparatory programs for
  returning school, job opportunities, Say no to
  drugs programs, programs for feminist culture
  and leadership and so on

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Further Tasks and Future Goal 1

• Why does the empowerment programs need to adopt a
  gender sensitivity?
• -To draw a larger picture and gain better
  understandings of teenage women in their unique
  social context (sex trade, sexual violence, and
  pregnancy)
• - To strengthen the ability to introspect and
  change the gender inequality of our society
• - To integrate social welfare programs and a
  gender perspective

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Further Tasks and Future Goal 2

• To improve the ability of the personnel of
  shelters
• Workshops, education programs,
  consciousness-raising programs from a gender
  perspective
• To build infrastructure in order to develop
  various programs and policies for teenage women