Tjejjour

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Tjejjour YOUNG WOMENS SHELTER
Beatrice Unander-Scharin
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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)

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YOUNG WOMENS SHELTERS

• 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

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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

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Roks youth women's shelters IN 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)

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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

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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

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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

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CONTACT
Beatrice Unander-Scharin ROKS beatrice.unander-sch
arin_at_roks.se www.roks.se