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Sağlıkta Genç Yaklaşımlar Derneği (Y-PEER Turkey)
Sağlıkta Genç Yaklaşımlar Derneği (SGYD, or Y-PEER Turkey), is a youth network that set up under the international network of youth and civil organizations named Y-PEER in 28 July 2015. Sağlıkta Genç Yaklaşımlar Derneği is the Y-PEER Turkey's official name that is also used for giving more meaning to Y-PEER Turkey's mission. Sağlıkta Genç Yaklaşımlar Derneği aims to provide accessible information, that is mostly about health and education and make youth realize themselves as being subjects of the society. SGYD also adresses to create spaces for the youth to express their subjectivity freely and focus on strenghten themselves in those areas.

SGYD was chosen one of the difference-maker society group in Turkey by the "Fark Yaratanlar" (difference-makers) program of Sabancı Foundation, which is a foundation that has huge impact on the society. Furthermore, SGYD's most common subjects are gender equality, sexual health, reproductive health, human rights and active citizenship. The society provides platforms that they give peer education to raise awareness about the subjects in a safe, informative spaces. Additionally, this peer network make workshops all around Turkey about sexual and reproductive health as well as reorienting youth groups to safe health care. The number of these young peer trainers are close to 300 people.

Besides, SGYD also focuses on different projects regarding to young LGBTI and refugee groups.

SGYD plays an important role as Turkey's situation of lack of sex education and taboos speaking about sexual and reproductive health. The society group also focuses on creating peaceful spaces on the health institutions as strenghtening peaceful communications between young people and health professionals. By saying this, SGYD does not only focuses on education of young groups but also, works on changing the perspective of sexuality of youth among the society, which aims to create a safe zone for the young people.

Missions

 * In order to have a chance to have a close look up to civil society studies, provide opportunities for youth groups.
 * Making peer education a more popular and familiar phenomena; as well as taking the responsibility of developing, application of it.
 * Supporting the participation of the youth groups by contextual, technical and logistic aspects while advancing the culture of organization.
 * Contributing to the progress of the youth policies and carry out advocacy studies.
 * Supporting youth friendly health policies and help to progress.
 * Developing educational technologies, in visual and inscriptive ways while bring youth and youth based literatures together.
 * Respecting human rights and social issues in the context of the movement.
 * Contributing to creation of the strong civil society based on gender equality.
 * Flourisihing cooperation and mutulal understanfing with the other civil society groups that work about the issues locally, nationally or internationally.
 * Being an adaptive civil society group that integrates itself to the changing and progressing conditions with innovative models by educating itself and sharing values regularly.
 * Producing rights-based projects that mostly focuses on need and demands of deliberate youth groups.
 * Supporting deliberate youth group projects and developing new models.

Values

 * Behaving Under the Perspective of Gender Equality and Human Rights
 * Open and Honest Communnication
 * Group Work
 * Participation
 * Subjectivity