Youth campaign "Just One Click Away" under the project "Youth Voices, Youth Choices"
  Blagoevgrad, September 28, 2022
On September 28, 2022 the second working meeting of young people took place in Blagoevgrad. They discuss the planning and implementation of the "Just One Click Away" campaign - a platform for psychological support for young people. The main goals of the initiative are to raise awareness, provide accessible psychological support and start an open conversation about young people's mental health, especially after the lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The team managed to develop the detailed plan of action until the end of the year, the design of the platform site, the program on how to reserve individual hours with a psychologist.
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Launch of the health campaign in Breznik under the project "Youth voices, youth choices”
 Breznik, September 27, 2022
On September 27, 2022, the health education campaign "Health Alarm Clock" was officially presented to students of the 8th grade of "Vasil Levski" secondary school, Breznik.
The campaign is within the framework of the project "Youth Voices, Youth Choices", funded by Merck through its MSD for Mothers Program. It will be implemented by the team of the Regional Youth Raise Center - Breznik.
Partners of the initiative are: Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA), Municipality of Breznik, Local Commission for Combating Anti-Social Behavior of Minors.
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Youth Аdvocacy Тeams for Better Access to Health Services and Information
 Banya, August 22-24, 2022
Together with 14 young people from Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Sofia, we worked on implementation of two campaigns - in Blagoevgrad and Dupnitsa - to support vulnerable communities and improve young people's access to SRH information and services. The main topics of the training focused on advocacy skills, organizing and conducting local campaigns and how to use “photovoice” method. Examples of already developed campaigns from the previous training in Dolna Banya were also presented. The idea was to involve new participants in various activities in different locations, as well as to connect young people to help and learn from each other in the process of preparing and implementing advocacy campaigns.
The young people with the help of the health mediators, defined as a problem the poor access to information and health services, ensuring a healthy and fulfilling way of life for the young people from the Roma community in Blagoevgrad. They have the ambition to contribute for raising the public awareness towards these problems in Blagoevgrad, and also to draw the attention of the institutions to the problem.
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Young People Working to Support Local Communities
 Dolna Banya, July, 11-13, 2022
Talks, questions, sharing about the huge gap between how young people define health care problems and how adults see them; about the lack of trust in the institutions regarding their reaction in cases of violence, even for registered ones! We discussed that deep in our national psychologyit is stated that talking about mental health and "shameful" illnesses is not good, when it happens at all it is hidden, superficial and stigmatizing, and thus leads to dramatic complications for people in personal plan. We also talked about the nuances of "advocacy" and "lobbying."
We from the BFPA team think that we are really lucky for working with a group of wonderful young people - from the youth clubs in Pernik and Breznik and from the American University in Blagoevgrad (AUBG). The workshop was held July 11-13, 2022, in Dolna Banya. Our work topics are advocacy and campaigning.
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How Health Knowledge to Get to Roma Communities
 Dolna Banya, July 5-7, 2022
After two days fulfilling work on leadership and advocacy with unbelievable roma young people from Lom, Dupnitsa and Byala Slatina problems in respective communities were identified. Discussions in searching the best decisions were led; image of the target groups and stakeholders was created and the needed communication skills on leading a successful campaign were discussed. Role plays, practical cases and individual video presentations with messages were commented.
The health mediators Tanya Kirilova from Lom, Daniela Ljubenova from Dupnitza and Mirena Bocheva from Byala Slatina are real mentors for the young people from the communities they work for. The three of them, together with Dr. Rada Stamenkova, Pavlina Filipova and Ralitsa Zgalevska from BFPA team actively contributed to support the motivated and well-prepared young people, enthusiastic to advocate for better health of people from their communities. In the coming months the team will continue to work on building their capacity as leaders and to help them with expertise and guidelines.
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