This meeting was held with a fewer number of members but that didn’t stop our productivity and new ideas! After discussing their experiences with the institutions we visited during our previous meetings, we started to plan our upcoming activities. This meeting involved a lot of reflection on our work so far and the members had some very nice insights they wanted to share about the group and their views about their role in it.

One of the members said: “This is the only group I feel good going to. You are the ones who are truly listening to us and I feel good being here.” 

The other one said: “Our voice really matters. We can’t change our previous experience but we can make this place [the institution they live in] a better one for the youth who will be here in the future.”

We also made plans for the upcoming offline trainings with the professionals that will be held in autumn. The members were very interested in attending the trainings and we discussed their ideas about presenting the CAB work.

The Child Advisory Board is one of the activites of the project Alternative Ways to Address Youth (AWAY). Here you can read the latest news about the project.