In the past 18 of november, the CYE board was present on the European Patients Forum (EPF) Youth Group Work and Youth Strategy (WAYS) launch webinar.
The EPF Youth Group is made up of young patient representatives between 15-29 years old. They all have different chronic conditions and they come from all over the EU.
The aim of the EPF Youth Group is to become the reference group of the young patient community and its role is to communicate the needs and expectations of young patients to EPF and its members.
This way, the WAYS webinar focused on how challenging it can be for finding employment for any young person, even more so if they live with a chronic condition. This way, an online survey was launched and some of the results were: 44% of those interviewed felt that finding a job was ‘Difficult’ or ‘Very Difficult’ and 81% of respondents were not aware of employment support registries available in their country of residence.
