YouthNet
Guides and supports young people, enabling them to make educated life choices, participate in society and achieve their ambitions. Our beneficiaries are fledgling adults who are growing into growing up. They seek knowledge, experience, and advice as they look to find their place in the world. They're developing their own views and attitudes about who they are, and what they want to achieve.
Main Activity
YouthNet's mission to provide quality content (information, knowledge, and opprtunities) to young people, when and how they need it, has led us to create three innovative and popular projects. TheSite.org provides trustworthy, factual and unbiased information to 16-24 year olds so that they can make informed choices about their lives and benefit from the access to information that the internet provides. The key subject areas include money , housing careers, legal , relationships, and health. askTheSite.org is the first comprehensive online adult service for young people with questions answered by qualified professionals from specialist organisations UK wide. An archive of previously answered questions enables young people to share and learn from each others' experiences.
Description
Online peer advisors support young people by answering their questions on relationships on askTheSite, part of the webside TheSite.org. To take part you need to be: 18-29 years old and living in Greater London; Able to access the internet at home or at a place of work/study (training and supervision is a Youthnet's offices in Islington, but volunteers work remotely at a location with internet access of their own convenience); Able to volunteer around 4-5 hours a week for training, supervision and online peer advisor work. The timing of supervision and online work is flexible, while training times will depend upon the availability of volunteers selected on to this new pilot scheme. Set up in 2003, askTheSite offers young people access to individual, confidential and expert advice, answering their questions through a safe and secure part of TheSite.org. This interactive online information service tellos it like it is, providing young people in need of a first port of call. askTheSite deals with questions on different topics: sexual health, general health, mental health, housing, legal and rights, and money, in addition to relationships.
Sectors: young people, children
