TOWN COUNCIL OF ALJARAQUE

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM The Youth Information Centre (Y.I.C.) is a public municipal centre that depends on Youth and Environment Council of Aljaraque (Huelva) Spain. Y.I.C. is situated in Avenida de Punta Umbría, 22 – 21110 ALJARAQUE (Huelva). From the Y.I.C. we plan, arrange, coordinate and asses the Youth Local Plan that embraces different programmes of actions. Youth Information Programme It is included on the Youth Information Andalusia Net of the Andalusia Council. We get two years ago the public recognition from the Andalusia Government for the quality of our job and provided services (this is the highest well known rank of the youth information services). The purpose of this centre is to create a documental bottom to selectionate and classify the information and to cast it in accordance with the young people necessities. Programme Actions: a) Personal Enquiries. Individual Attention (personal, phone, mail, internet…) to the young people: employment, formation, travels…. In some cases problems that need specialist staff as scool failure, drugs problems, sexual orientation…. Auto enquiries: information in plank advertisement, website, books enquiries, magazines and brochures than we have got in our centre. Specialist Staff: we cooperate with others municipal departments in: - Studies and professions (we try to advise the students, scool problems…). - Youth legal consultancy (we try to inform about legal problems: labour, housing, ill-treatment…). - Conferences and monographs about different matters. b) Publications edition and informative support. Posters, brochures, stickers… to the right circulation of the information. c) Newspapers archives. We put at disposal of the young people publications of specific thematic ( housing adquisition, employment and abroad studies…). d) Euro Youth Card expedition. e) Informative campaigns, integration, sexuality, drugs abuses… f) Coordination of the Local Net Correspondents Youth of Aljaraque: A group of 11 young people who comes from the youth associate movement of our municipality. They ask for information and cast it between the young people. Youth Dynamization Programme It consists in the development of a programme of socioculturals, educationals and playful activities. It is taken as an educational work and tries to answer all the necessities and worries of the young people, affecting socials securities to educate them through cultural consumption activities and leisure-time. The activities go to the young people from 14 to 30 ( in some activities the age can be extended ). These are some of the activities we make: - Internet free connections. - Carnival parties - Youth prizes announcements: photography, poetry, comic… - Computer and Internet Courses at different skills. - Youth Week of Aljaraque. - VIH Informative Campaign. - Securities Education Workshop. - Health Education Workshop. - Spring Party. - Canoeing Workshop. - Bike Party. - Youth Volunteers Conferences of Aljaraque. - Youth Asociation Meeting. - Aracena Mountain Visit. - Isla Magica Excursion in Seville. - Aljaraque Rock Festival. - Recycling Paper Workshop Health Education Programme We try to stimulate this kind of education in all the schooling children of Aljaraque. This programme has been made in cooperation with the different educatives centres of our municipality. These are some of the activities: - Securities education programme. - Healthy drinks workshop - Non-alcoholic cocktails competition. - Drugs prevention workshop. - Anorexia and Bulimia workshop. - Sexual education and sexual disease prevention workshop. - Road accidents prevention workshop. Youth with Europe Programme This programme consists in the approach of the different actions of the Youth Programme to the young people as well as the participation of them, motivating and contributing the creation of an Unit and Solidarity Europe. From this Y.I.C. we´ve offered information and advice about different actions of the Youth Programme (youth exchanges, SVE…). This centre is backed for an extensive experience on development and participation in European projects. The Y.I.C. is the official centre of reception of SVE projects. From five years we’ve reception young people from different UE countries. We have experience in youth exchanges because we made a bilateral exchange with Istres (France) and a multilateral one with Pesaro (Italy). We had presented in our municipality the youth group initiative and the Aljaraque en Acción Association made an environment education project that was coordinated by this Y.I.C. Youth Infrastructure Programme We introduce the Youth Area Net equipped and served by skilled personal in all the village that belong to our municipality. With these centres we pretend the young people can use a public infrastructure where they can enjoy and learn in their leisure-time (information requests, making and taking part in activities and using these centres as a meeting point). Actually we have these following centres: Aljaraque space youth and Corrales space youth