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The National Youth Health Programme is a partnership between NYCI, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

X-HALE Youth Awards 2014 now open for applications

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Would your youth group like to receive funding to explore the area of young people and smoking?

X-HALE Youth Awards 2014 is now open for applications for their Short Film Competition 2014!

X-HALE aims to help prevent young people from starting to smoke and we support youth groups around Ireland to explore the area. In 2013 we supported 31 youth groups and across Ireland and we had 38 entries to our X-HALE short film competition

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New Edition of Support Pack for Dealing with the Drugs Issue in Out-of-School Settings
We are please to announce publication of a new edition of our Support Pack for Dealing with the Drugs Issue in Out-of-School Settings.
 
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In recent years, significant developments have taken place with regard to drug prevention across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors.
Following the publication of the second Support Pack in 2003, we saw the review of the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008 and the subsequent publication of an interim Drugs strategy for 2009-2016. This current strategy is an interim strategy until the publication of abroader Substance Misuse Strategy which is envisaged to include alcohol.
To take account of these developments, I am delighted to introduce this revised edition of the Support Manual for Dealing with Substance Use Issues in the Out of School Sector. This manual takes consideration
of recent policy developments both in the area of Substance Misuse and the Youth Work Sector.
 
We have endeavoured to put together a resource manual which is practical, informative and comprehensive. This manual offers a practical framework that identifies youth organisations as having a critical role in addressing substance use issues with young people in 3 areas:
 
  • Developing Policies procedures and guidelines for Substance Use issues in youth organisations
  • Prevention of Substance Use in youth organisations
  • Information on Intervention approaches for youth organisations

 

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Food for Thought Conference

 

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b4udecide – Delay Training and Evaluation

The B4udecide.ie education initiative was developed by the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme (HSE CPP) and the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) to encourage teenagers to make healthy, responsible decisions about relationships and sexual health.

The initiative, which includes a website and a set of 16 lesson plans, were disseminated to youth work settings nationwide and were accompanied by training by the NYCI.

An evaluation has been commissioned to establish how the initiative is working for young people and for youth workers and a research team from Millward Brown Lansdowne, an independent market research company, is carrying out the evaluation.

The research team will be asking the young people in your youth work group and youth workers for their views on the education initiative, using an on-line data gathering mechanism called IDEABLOG. The evaluation will take place over at ten week period beginning in September 2012.

More info:

Information Flyer (pdf)

Further Information for Youthworkers

If you are interested in taking part please register your interest on http://www.nycitraining.org/courses/b4udecide-ideablog-evaluation

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Suicide Prevention in the Community, A practical Guide

The National Health Programme welcomes the publication of Suicide Prevention in the Community,  A practical Guide.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,
a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring: all of which
have the potential to turn a life around."

You can download this resource here:

Suicide Prevention - A Practical Guide (PDF)

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