Sustainable
Livelihood
Mental Distress
amongst the youth is associated to a number factors. Being financially
stable is perhaps one of the key causes of distress within a changing
world where money is key to any opportunities or a way out.
The MMHV
acknowledges the strong link between distress and other social ills
(AIDS, prostitution, drug abuse, crime) that accompany youth
unemployment. This Component attempts to address this void.
1. Rural and Urban
Communities
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Using Community/Group
Participation Processes the project
identified root causes
of key distress issues among youth in
both urban and rural settings in Fiji, Kiribati, PNG and Vanuatu
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Feasible opportunities were
identified by the youths themselves to resolve
these issues and improve their livelihoods
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Expertise will be mobilized to build capacity of the
groups involved
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All processes will be documented ( lessons learnt and best practices)
and will be published
2. Pilot Projects
Prisoners
- Applied research will be used as a means to identify existing
rehabilitation work being carried out with prisoners prison
and ex-prisoners outside with regards to re-integration
into communities to discourage re-offence .
- Stakeholders consulted and best approach formulated together to work
with prisoners and ex-prisoners and plans will be followed through
- Best practice model of working with prisoners and ex-prisoners will
be documented and published and shared in the South Pacific
Region
Disadvantaged Youth
- Applied research will be carried out to as a means of
identifying the services available for disadvantaged youth (in this
case Homeless Youth) by the stakeholders
- A youth hostel will be identified and an individual approach will be
taken to develop life plans with the hostel youth
- Life skills training will be carried out with the youth in the
hostel
- All the processes will be documented and published and later
distributed around the South Pacific region avliable to
