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INTERVENTIONS
youth advocacy
We believe it is crucial for young people to participate in the process of making government policies and programmes that impact their lives and the communities they live in. This includes suicide prevention.
In Outlive’s engagement with young people, we have found that there are unique and diverse perspectives on how policies – at the local, national, and global level – can have an impact on youth suicide prevention.
Youth advocates can nudge policymakers to focus on programme and policy solutions that address different causes of youth suicides such as academic stress discrimination, lack of access to suicide prevention resources, domestic violence, and other such factors. It also has the potential to ensure that young people’s rights are protected and upheld.
outlive’s youth
advocacy for suicide prevention (yasp) fellowship programme
Outlive’s YASP Fellowship Programme aims to build capacities of young people to enable systemic and policy-level changes to prevent youth suicides. Over one year, Outlive will train and mentor 10 youth advocates to design and implement their own youth advocacy plans to engage with policymakers on suicide prevention in their own communities.
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