Across Europe, a substantial number of children and young people provide care (emotional, personal, practical, financial) to a family member or a friend who is an older person, has a disability, chronic disease, addiction or any other condition related to…
Dear colleagues, the second «Young Carers Conference in Switzerland» will take place on 12th November 2019, 08.30 am to 15.45 pm, Careum Auditorium, Zurich. The programme is available here. The event is open to the public and participation is free…
The findings collected during the first year of the Me-We project have served as basis to co-design and develop – together with adolescent young carers and relevant stakeholders- an innovative framework of primary prevention interventions for adolescent young carers. Caring…
The Minister of Health and Social Affairs wants to work towards a national strategy for carers. The ME-WE project aims to strengthen young people’s mental health. The Minister of Health and Social Affairs in Sweden, Lena Hallengren, wants to work…
The first year of the project was dedicated to gain insight into: the profiles, needs and preferences of adolescent young carers in six European countries (Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and UK); the legislation, policy and service frameworks that exist…
Today the international community celebrates the 29th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. States have committed to do everything in their power to protect and promote children’s rights to survive and thrive, to learn and grow, to…
On the occasion of the World Mental Health Day, the European Commission DG Research & Innovation sheds lights on young carers with an article on Caring for the mental health of young carers. The Me-We Project is presented as a pioneering…
On this day, dedicated to mental health, Eurocarers would like to shed light on young carers, a group of young people that is particularly vulnerable to mental distress and illness and yet that largely remains invisible. Young carers are people…
Wie meistert die 12-jährige Sarah ihren Alltag, wenn ihre Mutter stark an Polyarthritis leidet? Welche Aufgaben im Haushalt übernimmt sie, die über das «normale Mass» an Ämtli hinausgehen? Hat der 15-jährige Joël manchmal das Gefühl, zu kurz zu kommen neben seinen Brüdern Alain (17)…