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Introduction

NYCI provides training in the areas of

  • Youth Health, Youth Arts, Development Education, Equality & Interculturalism and Child Protection.

Most of our courses are available on demand or tailored.
Scheduled open trainings are listed here

For further information on any courses please call us on 01-478 4122 or e-mail training@nyci.ie.

Courses available

Health
SafeTALK

SafeTALK is a 3.5 hour suicide alertness programme that prepares participants to be suicide alert helpers.  In only a few hours, you will learn how to provide practical help to persons with thoughts of suicide. 

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Lets Beat Bullying - An organisational approach for the youth work sector.

This is a two day training course addressing the issue of bullying. 

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Mindout: Mental Health Promotion Programme for Out of School Settings

The training is based on the resource Mindout which has been developed by Health Promotion HSE West and NUI Galway. 

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A Creative Approach to Drugs and Alcohol Work

This two day training will provide paraticipants with a re-energised approach to working with young people around drugs and alcohol.

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ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)

This is a two day intensive, interactive workshop where participants develop their skills through simulations and role-playing in order to become more ready, willing and able to help people at risk of suicide.

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Good Practice in Sexual Health Promotion

This course is a follow on from the Delay/b4udecide training or other sexual health courses.

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Leave it till Later

This training course is offered in conjunction with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency's b4udecide campaign.  This training and accompanying resource will explore the concept of delaying early sex among young people.

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Specialist Cert in Youth Health Promotion

Specialist Cert in Youth Health Promotion

Click here for details of the 2012-12 Certificate

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Moment to Moment – Mindfulness for Youth Workers

A specially designed training course for youth workers and those who work with young people in the non-formal education setting.

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Equality and Interculturalism
Embedding Diversity in Youth Work

This training course will introduce participants to the use of a Diversity Toolkit 'Access All Areas' for carrying out a diversity assessment on their youth group or organisation.

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Designing a programme of activities on cultural understanding

This course helps participants devise a programme of activities to introduce the topic of cultural diversity and awareness into their youth groups.

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Exploring Inclusive Youth Work

This two-hour session will give a general introduction to inclusive youth work.

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How to design and deliver sessions on Interculturalism and Inclusion (2 day course)

This two-day course is designed to explore the theory and methodologies required to address interculturalism an ind inclusion in a youth work setting.

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Tackling Racism, Homobhobia 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.

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Practical Supports for Doing Intercultural Youth Work

This course will empower youth workers to work appropriately with and engage with young people from culturally diverse backgrounds

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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.

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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.

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Child Protection
The Child Protection Awareness Programme (CPAP).

This four hour basic awareness course is the standardised child protection training programme for the youth work sector.

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The Training of Trainers in the delivery of the CPAP.

This course is a two day induction and familiarisation training for youth work trainers who are selected following an application process.

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Designing and developing a child protection policy and code of behaviour

This course is a half day training programme for senior staff/volunteers and decision makers in organisations who have responsibility for the development and review of their organisational child protection policies and procedures.

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Board of Management Training

This training is available to members of youth service boards of management who wish to consider their board of management role and responsibilities for child protection and welfare in their organisation.

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Designated Liaison Person Training

This three day course is aimed at those with the role and responsibility of a Child Protection Designated Liaison Person within their organisation.

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Arts
NYCI Certificate in Youth Arts

The Certificate in Youth Arts is a part time, year long university accredited course of study in Irish Youth Arts Practice managed and delivered by the Arts Programme at NYCI.

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Development Education
Global Justice in Youth Work – FETAC Level 5

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) and YMCA Ireland have teamed up to provide a FETAC accredited development education training course to youth workers.

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Conversational Approaches to Development Education

How can we facilitate learners to really engage with global justice issues? How can we create conversations that really facilitate change and learning in our Dev Ed practice? What are the conditions we need to create for the best learning to take place?

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Development Education in Youth Work and the National Quality Standards Framework

This training will introduce participants to a step-by-step guide to delivering effective and high quality development education programmes.

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Measuring the Impact of Development Education

This training will examine the need to measure the impact of our development education work.

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Games from Around the World

This training session is an action packed workshop giving participants an opportunity to increase their repertoire of fun games from around the world and explore how games can be used to raise awareness of a range of issues relevant to young people.

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Specific Issues & Development Education in Youth Work

Development Education covers a myriad of social justice issues. This training is tailored to suit your organisations work and gives you the flexibility to decide on a justice issue that your groups wants to explore. It aims to provide you with enough information and methodologies to be able to design a session appropriate to the group you work with.

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Introduction to Development Education

This training will explore the connections between good youth work practice and development education. It will provide you with a clear understanding of what development education in youth work is and methodologies to use it in your work.

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