The Youth Correspondents program is an initiative between the regional and local administrations which uses a network of youth information points in the Secondary Schools of 32 municipalities in the region, which are served by the students who have been chosen as correspondents , thereby responding to interpersonal communication from youth to youth.
This one carries out the Directorate General of Youth and Sports, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Education Quality, Innovation and Attention to Diversity and Informajóvenes of Murcia.
In this program, which began with the last school year in October, they have participated 4 young students of IES "Prado Mayor" and "Juan de la Cierva".
These students are selected by the tutors responsible for this program in each HEI.
Since the program began, the correspondents attended the initial formation meeting, organized by the Directorate General of Youth and Sports, which took place at the High Performance Center in Los Alcázares.
In this meeting with the correspondents received 60 correspondents from other secondary schools of other municipalities in the region of Murcia and University of Murcia and Cartagena, policies and guidelines to follow to perform the functions of correspondents.
These include the reporting, coordinated with your municipality yDirección Informajoven competent General on Youth of the Region of Murcia, of all matters that may interest young people, such as leisure and recreation, youth accommodation, scholarships and support, studies, work, useful addresses, publications, and so on.
The information gathered in the center where he performs his duties as a correspondent and get it to the Youth Information Service is also transferred;
keep updated and ordered the media and other means (bulletin boards, newsletters, flyers, social networks, Tuenti, etc.) and to let the young, by claims that the information on these supports is to them and cooperate in achieving the objectives of the program in which it participates.
These correspondents by the Informajoven, have been active throughout the school year in the dissemination of information that most interests the group to which they belong and represents.
Through youth correspondent, who takes the role of a catalyst preferably in secondary schools, young people can express what their concerns are, and correspondent agent proximity, is responsible for channeling their demands.
Throughout the school year, correspondents approach the information provided by the General Directorate of Youth and Sports and local students Informajoven corresponding Institute, and also collect the students generated by the center.
The program ended in June with a final evaluation meeting, held in the hamlet of Camping "La Rafa" Bullas;
during which the correspondents of Totana, along with the rest of the 113 youth correspondents of IES and universities had the opportunity to present the balance of activities that have developed throughout the school year;
and enjoyed recreational, leisure and water activities.
