SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 Oct. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has reconvened the Insular Youth Committee with the aim of laying the foundations for the Insular Plan for Youth Houses, which will collect the reality of these spaces to coordinate actions to improve their operation and structure.
The event, held in the recently inaugurated Green House of Santa Úrsula, brought together technicians and councilors from the 31 municipalities, as well as the Island Councilor for Youth, Concepción Rivero, and the Island Director of the area, Isabel Bello, who presided over the meeting.
Concepción Rivero recalled that “the Insular Plan for Youth Houses is an initiative that was raised in the last Insular Table and in which work has been carried out since then to make a diagnosis prior to the execution of any action related to these infrastructures” .
In addition, he emphasized “the need for coordination of the different administrations to carry out projects like this, which affect the entire island.”
For her part, the insular director, Isabel Bello, explained that “20 years have passed since the creation of the first youth houses and many of them do not adapt to the current reality.”
Bello assured that “this project not only seeks to update the benefits of these facilities but also to solve recurring errors that usually affect them in most municipalities.”
During the diagnosis phase of the island plan, a general assessment has been carried out that has studied the reality of the 23 participating houses through questionnaires and face-to-face interviews.
Based on this, the meeting has served as a space in which to dump the results and make proposals for improvement, collects a note from the Cabildo.
With this information, the participants in the Insular Table concluded that the fundamental needs of the houses are based on providing them with stability in terms of the personnel that deals with young people, improving budgets and diversifying services and offers, thus favoring the participation of the young population in the design of policies and projects.
The proposals collected by technicians and councilors have allowed the Insular Table to lay the foundations to begin drawing up the actions that will be included in the Insular Plan for Youth Houses.
During the meeting, the representatives of all the municipalities were also given the report made by the participants of the New Employment Opportunities (NOE) program, who had been working for a year in 27 youth houses on the island.
