Elem spaces in schools
These school-based spaces provide a safe and informal setting within the school day, encouraging eye-level conversation, strengthening relationships, and enabling the early identification of distress and difficulties.
Types of Programs
An informal space operating within schools for youth. The space is designed to provide students with a safe, accessible, and non-judgmental place within the school day, a place where one can pause for a moment, talk, relax, receive a listening ear, and meet a significant adult. The activity in the space combines a permanent presence of staff and volunteers, individual and group conversations, social activities, and content tailored to the worlds of young people. Through direct contact, it becomes possible to identify emotional, social, or family distress at early stages, to strengthen a sense of belonging and help in coping with loneliness, bullying, hidden dropout, violence, and adolescence crises. The uniqueness of Space is in creating an intermediate space within the school: a place that allows for peer-level connection, strengthening personal and social resilience, and connecting to additional support factors when needed.