Research and Policy Reports

Guidelines for Consulting Children and Young People in relation to Developing Public Policy and Services in Ireland.

Targeted at both the youth service and the arts sector, IN2 is a resource for anyone interested in developing the arts in youth work. It includes information, opportunities and resource details, case studies and analysis of policy and practice in the area of youth arts and is both stimulating and challenging.

This One World Week resource contains a range of activities including games, role play, small and large group work activities, art-based activities and stories and is divided into four sections. Section One, What is Justice, explores what young people think justice is and opens up these concepts. Section Two, Young People and Justice Systems, looks at young people’s experience with justice systems. Section Three, Global Justice, bring the concept of justice out to global issues such as trade and climate justice, Section Four, Taking Action for Justice, encourages young people to take action on the justice issues that concern them and has a number of activities that help narrow down actions that they can take on issues of injustice.

This resource has been written for the Youth Work sector and stems from a recognition by NYCI Youth Health Programme and the Child Protection Programme that we have a shared responsibility to respond to the issue of bullying in this sector as a matter of priority. This resource manual is practical, informative and comprehensive in relation to the issue of bullying and offers a range of options in relation to the prevention of bullying and the development of an anti-bullying environment. The resource outlines a variety of responses which may be used to intervene in situations involving bullying. It also provides a framework and process for devising an anti-bullying policy.

This document responds to Frequently Asked Questions that NYCI receives on the inclusion of cultural and minority ethnic young people and leaders in youth work.

This research highlighted a widespread stereotyping of young people in a range of arenas

– at school, in their local communities and in the media. The research concluded that the young people interviewed saw their institutional relationships with adults as for the most part unequal, troubled and rooted in stereotypical ideas about their attributes and abilities.

This resource pack should support young people and organisations of young people to recognise stereotyping and to challenge any stereotyping of young people. The resource pack is also designed to challenge any stereotyping of other groups by young people.

Published March 2008 by The Equality Authority and the National Youth Council of Ireland.

This research surveyed over 1,000 young people across the country and offers an insight into the issues that affect young people in Ireland today. The issues covered in the report are Education, Voting Participation, Health, Housing and Personal Finance. Based on the research we have outlined 16 actions which we believe Government should introduce to support and assist young people to achieve their full potential and to better contribute to Irish society.

The Volunteering Support Manual is the third element in the development of NYCI’s structures and supports to assist organisations in attracting, recruiting and retaining volunteers. It follows the Policy on Volunteering adopted by NYCI’s Assembly in November 2006 and the Charter on Volunteering developed in early 2007.

All of these resources have been produced as a direct result of feed-back and inputs received during the development of NYCI’s first Strategic Plan during 2002. The Plan contained specific aims which included the promotion and development of volunteering as a worthwhile activity that is fundamental to society and also directed NYCI to support and develop best practice for involving volunteers in voluntary youth organisations.