Dear Participant/Parent or Guardian,
You or your child/ward have been invited to take part in one or more of the programmes with the Our Generation Team of Youth Work Ireland. These programmes are being delivered in partnership with your/ your child’s school or youth programme. The host school or organisation will remain the main point of contact for you to discuss any concerns/queries.
“Our Generation” is a cross-border partnership project funded by the Peace PLUS strand of the EU, which is being delivered through nine regional organisations, with Youth Work Ireland being one of these delivery organisations.
Mind Matters: Building Friendships, Resilience, and Personal Growth
Mind Matters is a 5-session emotional resilience programme that educates & supports young people (aged 11-25) to explore their thought processes, the impact of positive/negative self-thought, and how to implement critical thinking skills in assessing the information we are receiving. Mind Matters uses practical steps and strategies through the 5-A-Day approach to emphasise building emotional resilience.
Programme Highlights:
-Emotional Wellbeing and Body Awareness
-Managing thoughts and thinking styles
-Effective Interpersonal Communication
-Mindfulness and Adaptive Coping Strategies
CHOICE: Contraception, Healthy Options for Intimacy, Consent, and Empowerment
The CHOICE Programme provides empowering sexual health and reproductive education for young people aged 14-25, delivered through 5 dynamic, interactive sessions.
Programme Highlights:
-Sexual Identity and Relationship Dynamics
-Understanding Your Body
-Consent, Communication, and Boundaries
-Wider Influences and Informed Decision-Making
-Contraception and STI Awareness
Stand UPP: Understand Power & Prevention in Gender Based Violence
A transformative programme for young people aged 14-25, focusing on gender-based and sexual violence prevention.
Programme Highlights:
-Differentiate sex and gender, challenge gender stereotypes
-Explore societal attitudes towards violence & the impact of power imbalances in unhealthy relationships
-Healthy Emotional Expression & challenge attitudes towards violence
-Bystander Intervention and how to access support
Rise Up: Youth Leadership & Community Action
Rise Up is an empowering initiative for 14-24 year olds to take an active leading role in their community by engaging in a social action project and enact positive change in their community.
Programme Highlights:
-Leadership and Teamwork Development
-Build confidence to voice opinions, & challenge respectfully
-Community Needs Assessment
-Perspective-taking and cultivating empathy
-Practical Social Action Experience
Participation in these programmes and the programme evaluations are voluntary and you are free to withdraw at any time prior to attending. Once the programme/event has commenced, participants can still opt out at any time but any recorded data, up to that point, will be retained. Anonymised data will be shared with Ulster University for research purposes and stored for a period of 10 years. No identifying information will be stored or shared. This means that your identifying information will be removed and only your anonymised answers will be stored and shared.
As it is voluntary the young people can choose to leave the session if they find it difficult and they will be supported by school/youth work staff if this should occur. We will also provide each participant with a Referral Booklet at the end of the programme which will detail sources of further support for them.
By completing this form I understand that breaching agreed acceptable standards of behaviour during face to face or online sessions may lead to access to the service being withdrawn from me (if aged over 18)/ my child/ward for a fixed period or indefinitely.
Please follow this link to view YWI's Safeguarding Statement.
If you would like more information on the Mind Matters programme, the CHOICE Programme, the Stand UPP Programme, and the Rise Up Programme, the Our Generation programme which they are a part of, or Youth Work Ireland as a delivery organisation, then please email ourgeneration@youthworkireland.ie.
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