Adequate shelter should be provided for young persons who are no longer able to live at home or have no homes. Services should be provided to deal with the difficult transition of young persons to adulthood, including special programmes for young drug abusers that emphasize care, counselling, assistance and therapy. Voluntary organizations serving young people are to receive financial and other support. Local youth organizations should be created and strengthened and given participatory status in management of community affairs. They should encourage youth to organize collective and voluntary projects, particularly to benefit young persons in need of assistance.
Government agencies are to provide necessary services for homeless or street children.
A wide range of recreational facilities and services of interest to young persons should be established and made easily accessible. The mass media should ensure that young persons have access to information from a diversity of notional and international sources. It should portray the positive contributions of young people to society. Information on services, facilities and opportunities for young persons should be disseminated. Mass media in general, and film and television in particular, should minimize the portrayal of pornography, drugs and violence, display violence and exploitation unfavourably, avoid demeaning and degrading presentations, especially of children, women and interpersonal relations, and promote egalitarian principles and roles.