Youth Service Approaches Public to Discuss Three-Year Plan at Opening of Mental Health Exhibit

GIBRALTAR Youth Service is planning meetings with the general public “to learn, discuss and identify the needs of young people”, it said in a statement.

This week the Youth Service held an art exhibit at the GEMA gallery to mark Children’s Mental Health week.

Planned meetings with community stakeholders will share ‘proposals and ideas’ to help the youth service develop its three-year strategy.

Youth Service will hold its first open house on February 13.

You will gather the views of your Youth Group, youth support workers and volunteers, Child Protection Committee professionals, NGOs, charities and the public.

This week, young people display their mental health creations at the Gibraltar Exhibitions of Modern Art (GEMA) gallery.

Called ‘Let’s Connect’, the exhibition follows exciting Youth Service workshops over the last few weeks.

“Members of the four youth clubs have been learning about the values ​​that connecting with others can have on our emotional and mental well-being,” Youth Service said in a statement.

“The members have used many mediums to express their ideas about connection, from animation to clay work, photography, painting and collage making, to name a few.”

Youth workers held a residential weekend at the Europa Retreat Center to “experience how to connect with others,” the government department said.

Youth Minister Steven Linares visited the group to support their work and witness firsthand the journey they took to complete the project.

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