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School Uniform Recycling Toolkit 2023
The Southern Area Locality Planning Team have produced an Infographic to report on the impact of this year’s School Uniform Recycling Toolkit. This free resource was produced to provide a user friendly, free, practical guide for schools and community groups to use in order to hold a successful school uniform recycling scheme. We provided checklists for discussions, templates to use, tips which shared good practice, and evaluation forms which we collated to produce individual reports for each initiative.
11 schools and groups used the Toolkit during 2023 and send completed feedback forms to demonstrate the effectiveness of the resource.
We had around 1,250 items donated totalling a value of over £8,000. These items were successfully recycled across the Southern area.
If your school or group is interested in finding out more about this free resource, and how to avail of our support in 2024, please contact Darren Curtis at localityplanning@ci-ni.org.uk
Children & Young People’s Resource Pack- Christmas Edition
The Christmas Edition of the Children & Young People’s Resource Pack is OUT Now!
Included are resources & information on activities, looking after your mental health, bereavement, disability and recipes.
(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device. Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).
Resources and activities are free and in the public domain.
Please share with contacts who you think would find it useful.
Ulster University Bordered Youth Project
The bordered youth project at Ulster University.
As part of this project, Ulster University are looking to recruit young adults between 18-24 to participate in a photo exercise and a follow up interview (see attached for more information). All participants will receive a £10 amazon voucher for their time.
Autism and Mental health short film
https://vimeo.com/848762393/72b9f2cdbd
It is no secret that here, in Northern Ireland, our children and young people have the highest rates
of mental health difficulties in the whole of the UK
For our neurodiverse young people and adults these statistics are even harder to read…
84% of Autistic individuals meet full criteria for Anxiety disorder
Autistic individuals are unfortunately 9 times more likely to die by suicide
77% of young autistic adults had additional mental health diagnoses, including anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder
This year, let it be the year that we change in how we approach supporting our young people with their mental health, that we create a world that is accepting and loving for our neurodiverse individuals