Resources
Young Women and Drug Use Position Paper
We worked with the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN), to plan, research, write and publish this new position paper on the topic of young women and drug use. This position paper also contains recommendations to guide governments and policy makers to better address the unique needs of young…
Harm Reduction Services for Young People Who Inject Drugs Report
This report was written and published by the Count Me In consortium, comprising of Youth LEAD, Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+), and ourselves. It describes 10 existing harm reduction projects with youth-friendly components and providing services to different sub-groups of young people who inject drugs around…
Instagram for Advocacy & Communications Workshop and Guide
We ran an Instagram Activism Workshop with Craig Dwyer from For A Change. He taught us how to utilize Instagram to aid in our advocacy and fight to end the War on Drugs. We recorded the workshop to further the learning from this activity, watch the video here. Craig also…
UHC Issues For YPWUD & Other Young ISPs
This report was commissioned by Youth RISE and written by Oluseyi Kehinde and Ekanem Itoro Effiong. It was funded by the Robert Carr Fund. There are a wide-range of issues that affect young people who use drugs (YPWUD) and other young inadequately serviced populations (ISPs). In view of these issues,…
Early Life Trauma and its Implications for Garda Youth Diversion Services
This research was conducted by Quality Matters and University College Cork’s school of Applied Psychology through funding and support from the Garda Youth Diversion Bureau and Youth RISE through our Robert Carr Fund ‘4Youth’ and ‘Harm Reduction’ grants. Early-Life-Trauma-and-its-Implications-for-Garda-Youth-Diversion-Services-Full-ReportDownload Early-Life-Trauma-and-its-Implications-for-Garda-Youth-Diversion-Services-Executive-SummaryDownload Design work by Mel Gardner. Media Coverage: RTE1, “Juvenile Offender”…
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Youth RISE Annual Report 2019
Youth RISE are proud to launch our 2019 Annual Report celebrating the work done in our 13th year of Youth RISE!
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SSDP United Nations Drug Policy Advocacy Handbook.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy have developed this useful handbook designed to help young people engaging in advocacy at the United Nations level. You can download the handbook here or view on SSDP’s website here.
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