Center for Youth Studies
The Center for Youth Studies was founded as the Commission for Social Research in 1971, adopted its current name in 1982 and in 1994 became a Non-Governmental Organization. It is the only Cuban institution devoted entirely to the study of the problems of adolescents and young people. Since 1999, it has had Consultative status in the United Nations Economic Social Council and has been represented in important conclaves convened by the United Nations.
To undertake the scientific work, it has highly qualified professionals, trained in different specialties of Social and Humanistic Sciences, who are grouped in the departments of: Sociocultural Research and Sociopolitical Research, assuming a large part of the studies with a multidisciplinary nature. It also has the Department of Documentation and Information that safeguards research results, bibliographic materials and other reference materials.
The work carried out by the center throughout its five decades of existence has been based on a systematic effort to accompany boys, girls, adolescents and young people, the Union of Young Communists and the Revolution in the different stages of the construction of socialism.