Tailored Training Courses

March 22, 2019

Creating a Youth Arts Policy for Your Organisation

This training provides participants with the skillset to develop a Youth Arts Policy within their organisation, contextualising it within the wider policy environment and focusing on building on existing work.
March 22, 2019

Developing Funding Applications for Youth Arts Projects

The funding environment is competitive, there never seems enough money – and funder priorities will not always seem the same as your priorities. While we can’t guarantee you success, we can offer you a hands-on, interactive workshop supporting you to make a compelling case for your work, give you insight into the typical decision making processes and support you to put your best foot forward with an application.
February 8, 2019

Designing an Intercultural Programme

On day one the course follows the structure of the ‘Intercultural Awareness and Cultural Competency’ training day. On the second day participants will develop practical skills to engage with young people and volunteers in a culturally diverse setting, as well as planning and delivering their own session on Interculturalism and inclusion.
January 25, 2019

Intercultural Awareness and Cultural Competency

This course is designed to introduce participants to the theory and methodologies required to develop and maintain cross-cultural relationships in youth work. It will assist participants to engage with young people and volunteers from diverse cultures.
January 25, 2019

Practical Supports for Doing Intercultural Youth Work

This course will introduce participants to the skills and resources needed in planning effective and sustainable intercultural youth programmes. It will offer guidelines on recruitment and good practice and will empower youth workers to take action towards developing a culturally inclusive youth service.
January 25, 2019

Developing an Intercultural / Diversity Policy and Implementation Plan

This course is designed to ease participants through a policy development process. At the end of day one participants will have developed an intercultural policy template for their own organisation.
January 25, 2019

Tackling Racism, Homophobia and Sexism

This course is designed to introduce participants to the theory of racism, sexism and homophobia. It will focus on understanding stereotypes and prejudices, different types of discrimination and how to identify and tackle incidents.
January 25, 2019

Embedding Diversity in Youth Work

This training course from NYCI will introduce participants to the use of a newly developed Diversity Toolkit 'Access All Areas' for carrying out a diversity assessment on youth projects. It will demonstrate how to develop an action plan based on identified gaps in service.
January 23, 2019

B4U Decide

This is a two day course offered in conjunction with the HSE’s Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programmes B4uDecide campaign.