Kungsladugårdsväg 5
46254 Vänersborg
Sweden
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
In August 2014, Support Group started and after two years in July 2016 it become officially licensed organization called Support Group Network (SGN).
Support Group Network (SGN), is a non-profit organization initiated by refugees and collaborates with local societies to improve integration and inclusion of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants, for whom SGN provides psychosocial support through creating need-based activities and projects aiming to enhance their future in Europe or home countries if they go back.
SGN functions as an umbrella that gathers associations and individuals efforts aiming to help and support asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants to be included in the hosting countries through need-based activities and projects.
SGN mission is all about empower and encourage refugees and migrants' own initiatives and support them in all areas: (social, cultural, education, sports, health and psychological care).
- Make refugees actors and stakeholders for their own affairs.
- Gather advocacy for asylum seeker, refugee and migrant cases at all levels.
- Facilitate the academic inclusion of refugees who wish to complete their higher studies, bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree. Promote the understanding of society's norms to create a better integration and inclusion of children, young people, adults and families and give them the tools to become active members of society, with a main focus on: diversity, gender equality, women's and young people's empowerment and children's rights protection.
- Increase the employability of refugees and support them to start their own business.
- Support the graduates to validate their certificates to contribute their experiences to their new communities.
- Refugee ed project: Effective methods in education, mental health and psychosocial support for the integration of refugee children.
- Youth Center: A meeting place for children and young people for meaningful activity, learning and better everyday life.
- NEETs for NEETs:
Support Group Network participates in the Erasmus+ project NEETs for NEETs - Improving inclusive methods to empowering young adults together with partners in Norway, Sweden, Germany and Belgium.
The project aims to prevent exclusion in order to get the target group into work or further education, in addition to increasing the teachers' competence. The project focuses on including NEETs and empowering them. The ReACT model has a central role in the project. The model was developed by refugees at Sweden's largest asylum reception, Restad Gård, in 2014. When the waiting time at the asylum reception was over a year, the refugees themselves took the initiative to share their knowledge and skills with other refugees so that they could create meaning in the long waiting time and build something for the future.
- Next step Sweden:
The purpose of the project is to increase the self-sufficiency of the target group of asylum seekers and to improve the mental state. This means that the project must work with health-promoting activities as well as guide and supervise the target group, improve the conditions for employment/practice or that entrepreneurs are given the conditions to start and run sustainable businesses.
Support Group Network's relationship with asylum seekers and new arrivals together with the developed cooperation model provides unique conditions for asylum seekers, new arrivals and foreign-born to achieve increased self-sufficiency.