Hello John,
I hope you're keeping well as we move through the summer.
Below, you'll find your round-up of opportunities, updates, and events from across the youth sector including an chance to document your response to Covid-19, a new module on international youth work as well as a look at the inspiring collaborative campaign involving three NYCI members: #BringingPrideHome.
Stay safe and enjoy the rest of your week,
Daniel
NYCI
NYCI News
Upcoming training, deadlines, and calls
Remember to check out our Covid-19 hub for more resources, training, and advice.
Youth work sector's response to Covid-19
To sustain youth work into the future and demonstrate its social and economic value, we need your help to capture the sector’s ongoing response to the challenges presented by the pandemic. Please take the short survey and help inform this important work. Survey closes July 2nd.
New interactive module on international youth work
NYCI partnered with Léargas and Maynooth University to develop a new interactive online module on international youth work, launched last Friday at the What’s the Story? Narrative in Youth Work and Youth Studies 4th International Youth Studies Conference.
Young Voices: Ideas to action
We've done the talking, and we've done the thinking. It's time to identify the ideas that will lead to action and to nominate the next EU youth delegates! Join us for the next Young Voices event and help ensure that your young people are heard and included. Register your interest >>
Heavily subsidised STEAM training, resources, and equipment for Youthreach staff
As part of Full STEAM Ahead! A Partnership Approach to STEAM in Youthreach, we are delighted to announce the first in a series of support packages aimed at helping you to deliver STEAM workshops and programmes at your centre. Find out more >>
Skills Summary online video session
July 15 is World Youth Skills Day! To mark the occasion, we have organised this brief online session for those who would like to get familiar with the digital Skills Summary tool. The session offers an overview of the features of the tool and introduces supplementary resources to support your youth work practice. Find out more >>
Creating a youth arts policy for your organisation
This training provides participants with the skillset to develop a youth arts policy within their organisation, contextualising it within the wider policy environment with a focus on building on existing practice. Read more >>
Individual recognition for professional youth workers with 15+ years’ experience
The North South Education and Training Standards Committee for Youth Work (NSETS) has recently approved a process whereby those who do not hold qualifications specifically in youth work but who have been continuously engaged in professional youth work practice for 15 years can apply for a statement of individual recognition. Find out more >>
Reaching out to minority ethnic Irish young people
Dr Maria Barry and Dr. Malgosia Machowska-Kosciak of Dublin City University are carrying out a piece of research that aims to gather and examine the opinions, experience, and future intentions of minority ethnic young people in Ireland aged 18-24. We are helping them connect with second generation Irish young people to participate in an online focus group. Find out more >>
Join our Youth Participation Network
We want young people to inject meaningful and actionable ideas into the Conference on the Future of Europe and empower young people from all walks of life to become active citizens. We are currently seeking youth workers, volunteers and young leaders to join us in creating a dynamic space for young people to shape their world and be heard at European level. Register your interest >>
Covid-19: guidance for youth services
We will continue to update you on our ongoing engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the Covid-19 Guidance for Youth Organisations on behalf of the youth work sector. Read the latest update >>
Meditation Sessions series
We're delighted to see that hundreds of you have now joined our free month-long meditation journey focused on you and your wellbeing since its launch! NYCI partnered with The Sanctuary to develop the series to support youth workers and those working with young people. If you haven't done so yet sign up here >>
Member News
#BringingPrideHome 2021
Youth Work Ireland, Belong To and Foróige joined forces in a very special campaign for Pride 2021. The #BringingPrideHome campaign saw almost 1,000 young LGBTI+ people from local youth groups around Ireland receive a Pride Self-Care Pack to keep the spirit of Pride alive while remaining socially distant as the annual Dublin Pride Parade is moved online for the second year due to Covid-19 restrictions. The Care Packs included a Pride t-shirt and a Tote bag with a bespoke design by LGBTI+ artist Aodh Quigley, Pride badges, rainbow face paint, pronoun pins, stickers and a coming-out guide for LGBTI+ young people. The packs were delivered in time for young people to be able to wear them for Pride Day on June 26th.
Youth poetry grand slam
Join Creativity and Change on July 6 at 8pm for a mind-blowing evening of powerful youth spoken word from all over the world. In partnership with the Irish Refugee Council, this series has explored global justice themes through the medium of poetry. Register here >>
VSI youth climate justice project
VSI's online Youth for Climate Justice project at the end of July will bring together a small group of young people to learn about climate justice and how they can help to achieve it. The project hopes to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advocate for climate justice. VSI is particularly hoping to include the voices of young people from underrepresented backgrounds or those with fewer opportunities in the project. Deadline: July 4. Read more >>
Irish Girl Guides sleep out to end homelessness
Members of Irish Girl Guides slept out on the night of June 25, to tie in with Depaul’s Sleep Out, to raise awareness of homelessness. Some slept in tents, some in makeshift shelters, and others in sleeping bags under the stars. The girls took part in a number of activities and challenges, like making dinner using just a kettle, to gain an insight into the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness. Download the Camp at home: Learning about homelessness activity pack >>
Foróige Shine With Pride mural
Foróige unveiled their Shine With Pride mural recently. The artwork was created in collaboration with SUBSET. LGBTI+ young people from across Ireland engaged in a series of virtual sessions with the artist KinMx to share their lived experiences of growing up LGBTI+ in Ireland and come up with the messages they wanted the mural to communicate. Find out more >>
Is your organisation an NYCI Member?
As well as advocating on your behalf, NYCI provides advice, networking and development opportunities, and expert training in all areas of youth work, including child protection, development education, equality, arts, health, and more. Find out more here >>
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Other Youth Sector News
Capacity building grant from DCEDIY
DCEDIY has opened applications for a capacity building grant and Hub na nÓg training to support the implementation of the National Framework for Children and Young People's Participation in Decision Making. Applications close COB Monday, July 5. Download the application form >>
Public consultation: Ireland's strategy on education for sustainable development
Survey closes today. This joint public consultation of the Department of Education and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on the development of Ireland’s new strategy for ESD to 2030 is now open. Full details can be found here >>
Webinar from Jigsaw and the HSE
This three-hour webinar is aimed at those who work or volunteer with young people and will give participants a greater understanding of the impact of Covid-19 on youth mental health as well as practical ways to support the young people they work with at this time. Registration for July 29 is by text message due to the current situation with the HSE. Text Paula on 087 703 2114 with your name and "July 29" and you will receive a call back.
Exchange House recruiting for QQI level 4 LTI
Exchange House is looking for members of the Traveller community who may be interested in taking part in a Local Training Initiative that offers a QQI level 4 in Pathway to Employment. Email Lorraine O'Connor for more information >>
Youth leadership programme for Irish young people
Friends Forever International is offering a one-of-a-kind programme designed to develop bold and empathetic youth leaders from across the island of Ireland. The programme includes virtual sessions and a two-week trip to the organisation's HQ in New Hampshire. It will focus on conflict transformation (personal and community), public speaking, communication, and identity. As one of the most challenging youth leadership programmes in the country, it emphasises resilience, empathy, and action. Learn more >>
Creativity & Change postgraduate programme
This programme is designed for anyone interested in how creative engagement can nurture global citizenship and empathic action around global justice themes. It takes place one weekend a month from September to May online and outdoors around Cork City. Participants will engage in a wide range of hands-on creative processes including visual arts, creative writing, and theatre, and explore global justice topics as well as putting new skills into practice by designing learning experiences for a range of contexts. More information here >>
Call for youth participants: Barriers to accessing justice
The Children's Rights Alliance has secured a grant to conduct a study on what children know about their rights in general and about rights related to specific groups such as children in care, children with disabilities, migrant and refugee children, LGBTI+ children, and children in conflict with the law. Researchers have been commissioned and a youth panel is being recruited. If you would like to nominate young people to take part, send their name, age, and a brief paragraph about them and why they want to take part to Julie Ahern, Legal and Policy Manager. Email Julie >>
Master of Arts in Advanced Facilitation Skills for Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Do you want to become a highly skilled facilitator and advance within your chosen profession or seek new employment opportunities? The skills acquired on this programme are essential when engaging with people or working with groups. Starting this September, it will be delivered in Dublin on one Friday and Saturday per month per semester and three residential weekends dispersed across the three semesters. Find out more >>
New child, youth, and family database for practitioners and researchers
This newly-launched database provides detailed information about standardised measurement tools which have been used in Irish research and evaluation with children, young people, and their families. It gives quick access to key information about each measure as well as links to publications and research data where the measure has been used. Take a look >>
Highlight your Event or Update
Send your news, events, and activities for inclusion in the next edition of Clár na nÓg, the youth sector newsletter, to [email protected].
Format: keep submissions concise (three lines or shorter). Include a link to your website where readers can find out more.
The E-Bulletin goes out to over 5,000 subscribers with an interest in youth issues. It is a great opportunity both to let the sector know about the fantastic work your organisation does and to target youth workers and those interested in youth work issues directly.
