Carnegie Young People Initiative

We wish to deliver a range of activities for children who receive their eduction through the medium of Gaelic and most of whose parents do not speak Gaelic.
These children livel within a largely english-speaking community and have little oportunity to speak Irish outside the school environment. This will involve the employment of two youth workers who will, together with over 12 volunteers, deliver a range of fun-based activities aimed at providing children an opportunity to speak Gaelic outside of the school environment. this will include the formation of a registered after-schools club, registered youth club and the delviery of a range of capacity building activities for young teenagers. We have already secured an offer of a portion funding (from Foras na Gaeilge) and require a balance 24,000 to secure the employment of two workers for this important project.

The East Belfast Youth Forum are a group of young people from East Belfast who strive to represent the views of young people in our community. We help voices to be heard around issues that impact on young peoples lives on a daily basis.

The group have been in existence for two years and continue to work together on various issues and projects relevant to their area.

The East Belfast Youth Forum are supported by the Belfast Education and Library Board Youth Service and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust

The Aims of the project are:
To dispel the myths and misconceptions of imprisonment.
To raise awareness among young people of the ultimate consequences of crime.
To discourage young people from making a mistake that could ruin their lives.
To encourage young people to take responsibility for their own actions.
To promote a safe and law abiding life style.

We are a recently established cross-border project, whose aim is develop a framework for the participation of young people in the planning of services, which affect their lives. The project is mandated by the inter-agency Children and Young People’s Committees in the Western Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland and the Health Service Executive North West in the Republic of Ireland. The project is also funded for a range of capacity-building initiatives, such as conferences, peer-led training, residentials and policy development. The project will also attempt to build on existing good practice in relation to young people’s participation. The overall aim of our project to improve the quality of life of young people who live in the north-west region by ensuring their systematic and continuous involvement in the design and planning of health and social care services in their area.We are aware of the great work that currently exists in the area of youth participation by many organisations, clubs and individuals, and hope to connect with all relevant bodies and share ideas on how to achieve our project goals.Communication will be vital to the success of the project, so we will be regularly keeping everyone up to date on our progress.

This is a cross border project involving Western Health and Social Services Board in N Ireland, and the Health Service Exectutive in Ireland.The project is funded by INTERREG, with the first phase ending in March `07. Our aim is to put a structure in place which can allow young people (12-18) to participate fully in future planning of the Children`s Sevices

Ballymoney Youth Outreach Trust opened ‘CHEERS’ Youth Centre as a non-alcoholic drop-in facility for 14 to 21 year olds from socially deprived areas around Ballymoney in 1991. In 2003 we moved to new more central premises. Since then we have run a number of projects with young people, the latest of which is a training and development programme for senior users of the centre. This will train and equip them in taking responsibilty for some of the running of the centre, fund raising for charities, leadership training and will culminate in a trip to South Africa in the summer of 2005. Other projects are relationship and sex education, drugs and alcohol awareness, social and lifeskills training.

This project aims to facilitate meaningful and active Citizenship and sustainable involvement in community action amongst young people. It encourages decision making at all levels, responsive to young people’s experiences and based on local realities.

This is a Citizenship project, teaching young people about democratic decision making processes, providing a forum to raise matters that effect young people and promotes positive community relations through personal development and learning.

Aims of the project: This project aims to research the views of young people about the current political systems in Northern Ireland, with the view to:

1. explore young people’s current understanding of engagement with political processes and decision-making.
2. identify what issues are important to young people.
3. look at ways of engaging with young people.