Empowerment Programs for young Women with Crisis Experience Bae, Hwa –jung (Seoul Resource Center for Young Women) :Focusing on “ Theme Project ”

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

Empowerment Programs: Theme 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

Changes and Development 1 `01~`02`03~`04`05 Organizatio ns 13(42)17(56)18(60) GoalFinancial supportHealing and developmentDevelopment and empowerment Social Resources Shelters/medica services ************>> Professional counseling centers/ academic institutions (for monitoring) ****************>> Feminist Culture and leadership ProblemsLack of motivation to analyze teenage women’s needs stigmatization

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

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

Empowerment Programs: Theme Project monitoring Alternative schools Counseling centers Cultural organizations shelters Leadership training academies Shelter Programs for Teenage Women Vocational schools workshops Medical institutions Supervisory organizations The Characteristics of Empowerment Programs 2-1

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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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

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

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