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Youth Consultation Center (Hikikomori Community Support Center)
Last Updated October 10, 2024
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What is the Youth Consultation Center?
Hiki Komoriya We provide continuous support for social participation in various issues faced by young people and their families, such as school refusal at Hiki Komoriya through telephone consultations, visits to offices, and group activities.
We accept such consultations and worries.
Withdrawal, school refusal, incompatible with groups, domestic violence, disturbance in life rhythm, stealing, bad friends, runaways, friendships, etc.
Targets
Youth and their families living in the city between the ages of 15 and 39
※Consultations on withdrawal over the age of 40 are available at the Health and Social Welfare Bureau Hikikomori Support Section.
Consultation time
Monday to Friday (closed on Saturday, Sunday, national holidays, New Year's holidays)
From 8:45 to 17:00
Contact information
TEL: 045-752-8366 (for consultation only)
Specialized counselors are available for consultation on youth.
Please feel free to call us.
It is free of charge. I will keep my secrets strictly.
Notice
We hold youth consultation support skill improvement training mental health course (video distribution version) in 2024 (September 30, 2024)
- This time, for those who learn about youth self-harm and suicide from the perspective of psychology, medicine, and welfare, and those who do not have a good consensus building in interpersonal support, understand the condition of the person and the relationship with the person, Lectures to learn about how to get involved and how to deal with them will be distributed on YouTube as training videos.
- It is training for supporters who are involved in children and young people in Yokohama City and teachers of schools.
Click here for application (application deadline: from 13:00 on Monday, September 30, 2024 to 12:00 on Friday, November 8, 2024) → To Yokohama-shi electronic application, report system application form (outside site)
- Free viewing
- Training video distribution period: From 9:00 on Friday, November 15, 2024 to 17:00 on Friday, February 28, 2025
- After accepting the training application, we will send a video distribution limited publication URL and training materials to the e-mail address registered by the student by the delivery start date.
※Please do not make a mistake in the e-mail address registered at the time of application.
Reservations for "specialized consultation for young people" by the Regional Youth Plaza in 2024 are accepted at the Regional Youth Plaza (updated April 9, 2024).
※1 The consultation place is each ward office.
※2. Totsuka Ward continues to accept reservations at the ward office.
"Specialized consultation for young people" guidance handbill (2024 version) (PDF: 426KB)
The next (Reiwa 6-10) operating corporation of "Yokohama Northern Youth Plaza" has been decided (2023/11/14)
Regional Youth Plaza Management Corporation Selection Results Report (PDF: 82KB)
Appearance of Youth Consultation Center
Flow of Consultation
1 Telephone consultation
TEL: 045-752-8366 (for consultation only)
Specialized counselors are available. Please feel free to call us (anonymous).
※Depending on the content of the consultation, we may guide you to other institutions.
2 Visiting Consultation
As a result of consultation over the phone, if you would like to visit the office, please visit our center and ask for consultation (reservation required).
※Depending on the content of your consultation, we may guide you to other institutions.
3 Continued consultation
As a result of the visit to the office, continuous consultation is desired, and if appropriate, continuous consultation will be provided (consultant system).
Support content for continuous consultation
The counselor in charge regularly conducts individual interviews with the youth or his / her family.
In addition, you can use the following menu as needed while consulting with the user.
Support for Users
Group activities
We interact with each other through card games, creative activities and sports activities.
Youth supporter
Youth supporters, such as students with knowledge of psychology and welfare, will visit homes, accompany you to go out, and support activities at the accompanying destination.
Peer supporter
Hiki Komoriya Pier supporters who have experienced school refusal will visit homes, accompany you to go out, and support activities at the accompanying destination.
In addition, at each workshop, etc., you will talk about your experiences as a lecturer.
Social participation experience
Experiences that serve as a starting point for social participation, such as sales and customer service experience.
Family support
A family gathering
It is a place where you can talk and share your worries and anxiety as a parent with peace of mind.
Family seminar
It is a place for providing information to families by external lecturers and interacting with participants.
Family study sessions
Learn and exchange information on various issues in adolescents, adolescents, and families in groups.
Various Information
Matters related to consultation
Facility information
Introduction of each room (under preparation)
Access
Youth Consultation Center Guide Map
〒240-0001
5-10 Kawabe-cho, Hodogaya-ku Western children's guidance office Complex Building 3F
TEL: 045-752-8366
FAX: 045-332-5077
Those who use trains
- 2-minute walk from Hoshikawa Station on the Sotetsu Line.
Those who use the bus (all bus stops get off at "Mine Elementary School")
<Main bus routes >>
- Municipal bus 101, 202, 208 system
- Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Bus 05, 62, width 52 systems
※Please use public transportation when visiting the office.
Consultation agencies other than the Youth Consultation Center
General consultation of young people in the community, support for social participation, provision of places to stay
You can also consult at the ward office.
"Specialized consultation for young people" guidance handbill (2024 version) (PDF: 426KB)
General consultation for employment
Other related consultations (ward offices, etc.)
※Depending on the content, we may introduce the above institutions.
It is a general consultation desk for various worries that children and young people (up to 39 years old) have.
We accept consultations by telephone, interview, and LINE.
※See the link for details.
Materials
Youth Counseling Center
"Don't worry alone" Youth Consultation Center guidance handbill (PDF: 1,108KB)
Regional Youth Plaza
Others
Hikikomori consultation dial guide handbill (PDF: 492KB)
"Consultation counter for worries" brochure (issued in March 2024) (PDF: 1,402KB)
Employment Ice Age Generation Support Leaflet (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (PDF: 934KB)
※For inquiries about videos, please contact the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau Youth Development Division (045-671-2324).
Video to introduce examples of consultation destinations and support contents in consultation about withdrawal etc.
※About consultation about withdrawal, we introduce consultation in Yokohama-shi and example of support contents in animation video clearly.
※For inquiries about videos, please contact the City of Yokohama, Child and Youth Bureau Youth Development Division (045-671-2324).
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Inquiries to this page
Child and Youth Bureau Youth Department Youth Consultation Center
Telephone: 045-752-8366
Telephone: 045-752-8366
Fax: 045-332-5077
Email address: kd-soudan@city.yokohama.lg.jp
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