Issue 45: May 2005 - Youth Work Ireland

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Policy in Practice and Drugs WorkDeveloping a strategy and policy for dealingwith the drugs issue in out-of-school settingsDate: Thursday 13 & Friday 14 October, 2005(Sligo), Thursday 24 & Friday 25 November, 2005(Waterford)Time: 10.00am – 5.00pmVenues: Sligo & WaterfordThis is a two-day training, which is based on theSupport Pack for Dealing with the Drugs Issue inOut-of-School Setting, revised and produced by theNational Youth Health Programme in 2003. Thecourse offers workers from both statutory and YouthWork settings an approach for dealing with theDrugs Issues from an organisational perspective, theprimary focus of this course is to facilitate and supportworkers towards the development of an organizationalstrategy and Drugs policy for Out-of-School settings.Cost: E100.00 (covers coffees, lunches and coursematerials)What’s it All AboutAlcohol and young peopleDate: Thursday 3 & Friday 4 November, 2005(Galway), Thursday 1 & Friday 2 December, 2005(Limerick)Time: 10.00am – 5.00pmVenues: Galway & LimerickThis two-day training course, which is aimed topresent a rationale for addressing the alcohol issuewith young people. It will highlight current researchfindings and issues of good practice. It will alsoexplore some creative methodologies in addressingthis issue and to examine the current legislativeimplications in relation to the alcohol issue andyoung people.Cost: E100.00 (covers coffees, lunches and coursematerials)Opening RoundAn introduction to working withdifferent groupsDate: Friday 7 October 2005Time: 10.00am – 5.00pmVenue: DundalkThis is a one-day introductory course that explores arange of skills and strategies for working with differentgroups. These include skills in relation to presenting,chairing meetings and facilitating groups.The course is targeted at Youth & CommunityWorkers/Volunteers, Staff in Vocational TrainingSettings, Health Education & Health PromotionPersonnel and other workers who work directly withyoung people.Cost: E50.00 (covers coffees, lunches and coursematerials)Smoking - Awareness and CessationDate: Friday 23 September, 2005Time: 10.00am – 5.00pmVenue: CorkOne day training course, which aims to raise awarenessof participants around the issue of smoking andyoung people. It will also offer an insight into smokingcessation and the strategies for providing supportto young people to stop smoking.Cost: E50.00 (covers coffees, lunches and coursematerials)Good Habits of MindA mental health initiative for those workingwith young in out-of-school settingsDate: Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 November,2005 (Dublin), Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7December, 2005 (Navan)Time: 10.00am – 5.00pmVenues: Dublin & NavanThis two-day training course, which aims to examinehow the issue of mental health impacts on youngpeople. It will also offer participants an opportunityto explore issues of good practice from a worker andan organisational perspective. Procedures aroundreferral will also be explored in detail.Cost: E100.00 (covers coffees, lunches and coursematerials)For further information on the abovethree events, please contact:National Youth Health Programme3 Montague Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 4784122 Fax:01 4783974Email: nyhp@nyci.ieIrish Youth Work Scene 20 Issue 45, May, 2005
Policy & FundingTAOISEACH LAUNCHES NEWCOMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARYACTIVITY TASKFORCEAt The Wheel’s annual conference in AprilTaoiseach Bertie Ahern announced a new taskforceto promote Community and Voluntary activity.Paying tribute to The Wheel on the scope and depthof its development, the Taoiseach highlighted thesignificant contribution the Community andVoluntary Sector makes to the economy and societyas a whole.The Taoiseach said he envisaged the task force havinga dual role: producing specific recommendationsand stimulating debate and discussion on this “challengewhich concerns us all”. It is expected the taskforcewill be in existence for six months with itscomposition and terms of reference to be announcedin the near future.EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED TOBENEFIT FROM NEW PACKAGE OFSUPPORTSThe Minister for Education and Science, MaryHanafin T.D., has announced that more targeted supportswill be provided across the education systemunder the new action plan for tackling educationaldisadvantage.The new framework is the result of a full review ofthe measures that have been put in place to supportpupils from disadvantaged areas over the last twodecades and will build on the success of existingprogrammes, while addressing the issues that havediluted the overall effectiveness of some measures.Outlining some aspects of the new approach, theMinister explained that“under the new plan, better procedures will be putin place for identifying the levels of disadvantagein our schools, to ensure that extra supports aretargeted at those that need them most.”A single integrated programme of supports forschools with concentrated levels of disadvantagewill be put in place, which will bring together, andbuild upon, the existing variety of schemes and initiatives.The new framework will be introduced ona phased basis starting in the next school year andwill involve an additional annual investment of€40m on full implementation. It will also involvethe provision of some 300 additional posts acrossthe education system generally. Some of these postswill be used to provide smaller class sizes in targeteddisadvantaged schools.Other measures will include:Improving literacy and numeracy byexpanding access to successful initiativessuch as the Reading Recovery ProgrammeProviding home school community liaisonteachers to more disadvantaged schoolsEncouraging greater cooperation betweenprimary and post-primary schools in disadvantagedareas.Funding to schools to provide a mix of bothacademic and non-academic supports forchildren during and outside of school-timeProviding extra supports for principals indisadvantaged schools to enable them toimprove planning at local level and ensurethat the extra resources being provided leadto better outcomes for pupilsEncouraging better retention of teachers indisadvantaged schools, not only by providingsmaller class sizes, but also throughaccess to enhanced professional development.There will also be a new scheme ofpaid sabbatical leaveFor further information contact:Department of Education & ScienceMarlborough StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8896400Email: info@education.gov.ieIrish Youth Work Scene 21 Issue 45, May, 2005
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