Youth Public Movement "Partner", Odessa

Youth Public Movement (YPM) “Partner” was created in August, 2001 by young leaders, specialists in the sphere of law, sociology, medicine, psychology and other. In August 2006, the Organization was officially registered at Odessa Regional Department of Justice and nowadays counts 34 staff personnel and combines more than 50 individual members, volunteers of organization. For the time of work workers of the Organization implemented 29 separate projects and published more than 35 informational materials. The main target group of organization, beneficiaries who receives the most part of services of organization, is children and youth in the age of 14-35 years. That’s why 95% of personnel and volunteers of organization are students and young specialists in different spheres and sciences. Work with youth includes rendering of full specter of psychological, social, medical and preventive services to different layers of vulnerable young people – men having sex with men (MSM), commercial sex-workers (CSW), female of sex business (FSB), street children, children deprived parents guardianship, young injecting drug users (IDUs), refugees and asylum seekers, etc.