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Keady Youth Engagement Project – Exploring disability and diversity

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The CYPSP Armagh Locality Planning Group has been working over the last six months to challenge behaviour and attitudes towards children and young people with a disability and to support the emotional wellbeing of children with a disability and their families in Keady area of Armagh.

In September 2016, the Armagh Locality Planning Group with a number of leading partner organisations including the Education Authority and Enable NI established Keady Engage Youth (KEY) Club in the local area. Key Club provides a safe, fun and stimulating space for children and young people with a disability to come together to learn, have fun and develop confidence and emotional resilience.

 

 

Key Club Volunteer Grainne Madden has been supporting the young people attending the Club through a voluntary capacity and has said ‘I recently began volunteering for Enable NI in my local youth club, Keady Engage Youth (KEY Club) and it has been such a positive experience for me. It is great to see the participants socialising and interacting with each other, and the volunteers. The youth club is full of laughs, activities and friendship and this is great to see for local people with disabilities. I am looking forward to lots more experiences, and sharing them with these amazing young adults’.

 

Read more about the project 

 

Get in touch

For more information contact Enable NI by telephone at 028 3887 2111 or email info@enableni.com

 

EITP: Getting Ready to Learn Programme Update

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The Getting Ready to Learn Project aims to support pre-school education settings with DE-funded places to encourage and develop parental involvement in children’s early learning to ensure maximum parental contribution at a crucial time in children’s early brain development.

Within Getting Ready to Learn, four key thematic approaches have been identified as particularly relevant to parents of pre-school children:

  1. Big Bedtime Read
  2. Education Works in Pre-school
  3. Happy Healthy Kids
  4. Ages & Stages, 3-4

Currently, over 350 pre-school settings are participating; holding workshops for parents to help them understand:

  • how children develop, including attachment and brain development;
  • the importance of parent-child relationships for the child’s development and behaviour;
  • the importance of childhood education and learning; and
  • the importance of healthy lifestyles and diet.

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How to get involved?

All settings delivering the NI Pre-School Education Curriculum are eligible to participate. The next call for applications will open in March and close at the end of April 2017. 

For further information please go to the following website:  www.eani.org.uk/schools/getting-ready-to-learn or contact:

 

Nicola Mitchell, Research and Development Officer                                                         Programme Manager at:

Email: Nicola.Mitchell@eani.org.uk

Telephone: 028 90564047

 

Hilary McEvoy, Programme Manager at:

Email: grtl@eani.org.uk

Telephone: 02890 564 047

 

Western Area – Guide to local Drug and Alcohol Services

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The Western Drug and Alcohol Coordination Team (DACT) have  recently published the local guide of Drug and Alcohol Services in the Western Outcomes Area. This guide provides a range of interventions to agencies, families and individuals that will offer the right support for individuals in local communities to address alcohol or drug related harm. Services available include: services for adults, services for young people and support for family members who have been affected by someone’s alcohol or drug use. 

 

Click here to download a copy of the Western DACT guide 

 

Calling mental health service providers to attend the Carrickfergus Youth Fair

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Pupils from four post primary schools in the Carrickfergus area will be brought together next month for the annual Carrickfergus Youth Fair. The fair will offer young people aged 15-16 years the opportunity to engage with local services providers to improve the mental health of young people and inform of positive lifestyle choices.

 

The Carrickfergus Locality Planning Group are hosting the Youth Fair on;

Tuesday 7th February 2017

Oakfield Community Centre, Carrickfergus

9.30am – 3.30pm

 

This is an excellent opportunity for organisations to showcase their information and support services to over 400 Year 11 pupils who will be attending the fair from four local post primary schools in Carrickfergus.

 

If your organisation would like to participate at the Youth Fair and provide an information stand/visual aids please complete the reply slip attached or contact Gemma Lutton by email at gemma.lutton@northerntrust.hscni.net or telephone 028 2563 6615 

 

For further information or to register your organisation click here 

 

Empower Free Family Fun Day

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Empower invite you to their free family fun day which will be held on the 21st January. This event is specifically designed for children under the age of 12 who have, or are yet to be diagnosed with, Autism, Dyslexia & Dyspraxia and their siblings. Click here for more information.