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Mindout: Promoting Social and Emotional Wellbeing – Drogheda

March 12, 2019 @ 10:00 am - March 13, 2019 @ 4:30 pm GMT

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Young people have the right to realise their full potential, to grow and flourish within today’s society. To realise that right, we must support young people to enjoy positive mental health and wellbeing. MindOut was developed to support the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of young people.

Social and emotional wellbeing has been shown to contribute to young people’s academic outcomes, their social development, their capacity to contribute to the community, and their ability to secure employment in adulthood. Social and emotional wellbeing is a protective factor against a range of health problems. There is an extensive amount of international evidence demonstrating that social and emotional wellbeing programmes can produce long-term benefits to the health and wellbeing of young people and provide the skills base for the prevention of a wider range of problem behaviours such as substance misuse, emotional distress, disruptive behaviour and risky health and sexual behaviours.

MindOut was first developed in 2004 to support the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of young people in post-primary schools in Ireland. In 2012, Mindout was adapted to meet the needs of young people in the out-of-school sector. Since then the programme has been delivered to young people by youth workers and Youthreach tutors across the country.

Mindout has been redeveloped in 2016/2017 to take consideration of and better reflect the needs and current issues in the lives of young people in today’s society. This evidence based programme, which draws on best practice nationally and internationally, builds on the original version of MindOut and continues to address the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of Irish adolescents providing them with new skills and strengthen the skills they already possess in an effort to enhance their overall mental wellbeing and mind their mental health.

CAPACITY

Minimum of 16 and
maximum of 22 participants

COST

Free of charge

DURATION

2 days

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will

  • Have an understanding of the aims of delivering MindOut in the out of school setting
  • Know how to deliver MindOut to young people aged 15-18 in the out of school setting.
  • Know where to access supports and information in relation to young people and their mental health/wellbeing.
  • Recognise the importance of adopting a whole organisational approach to strengthen the learning by young people and explore options to deliver on this.

About the training

  • Training runs for two consecutive days from 10am to 4pm.
  • Tea and coffee are provided.
  • Trainees will receive a MindOut manual to take away on completion of the two days training.

Aims of training

To increase the knowledge, skills and capacity of participant’s to deliver MindOut to young people aged 15-18 years in their setting.

Who is providing the training?

The National Youth Health Programme delivers this training to the out of school youth sector.

TARGET AUDIENCE

MindOut training is delivered to youth workers and Youthreach tutors to equips them with the necessary knowledge and resources to deliver MindOut to young people, aged 15-18 years, in the out of school setting.

Who can attend

  • Youth works and Youthreach tutors who work with young people aged 15-18 years
  • Preference will be given to applicants from NYCI member organisations

Details

Start:
March 12, 2019 @ 10:00 am GMT
End:
March 13, 2019 @ 4:30 pm GMT
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Organiser

National Youth Council of Ireland
Phone
+353-1-478-4122
Email
info@youth.ie
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Venue

Boomerang Youth Centre
Boomerang Youth Centre, 62 Fair Street
Drogheda, Co Louth A92 HX40 Ireland
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Phone
041 983 9916
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