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The CONTRIBUTION of Quality Youth Work

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Breaking of Borders Frankie McGreevy & Julie McGroary

Donegal Youth Service


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Surfacing Practice Wisdom • When cultures meet - Welcome to our world

– breaking of barriers -

• Represents 7 years work.

• Started with addressing difference tackling stereotyping.

• Moved on to citizenship rights.

• We have now established the barriers and we are seeking to break them.


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Youth Democracy Documentary • In the documentary young people explain the

difficulties they face when making the transition to third level education

• Some of them being treated as foreign students though they have lived in Ireland for ten years.

• Dutch connection


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Research • Thesis completed using the Youth Democracy

project as primary subject matter.

• This helped to inform the work of the BOB project

• Story telling – Wittgenstein power of adolescent self expression – Rogers congruence listening – Egan working with diverse groups.


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Participation in identifying needs Practice wisdom – Edward De Bono’s thinking hats

Creative thinking on making a film

Yellow hat - Why – • Could Teach people who we are how it feels to be in other peoples shoes – “Do you get

money from the government” “ I wouldn’t be so broke if I did. The movie will help other foreign people feel less alone.

Black Hat - Criticism - • Don’t trust Irish weather, People will think we are looking for sympathy, We must work

cross- border even if we don’t get on – A lot of commitment.

Green Hat- Being creative - • Families involved, traditional clothes, languages, music, atmosphere, background bonfire,

Dancing, think of both places, beaches, ocean, hot country, horses, farms, chickens, surroundings here, ghetto’s, airport, cargo ships how we actually feel we are being treated.


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Data analysis – empirical evidence

Word cloud depicting issues raised by YDP stories 2010


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Word cloud depicting issues raised by ‘Bob Group’ (June 2012)


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Data Analysis Phase 1

82%

18%

Religious Breakdown of Young people Engaged 'Cross Border Connections' Phase 1

Catholic Protestant


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Data Analysis Phase II


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Data Analysis Phase II cont..

White Irish 83%

Irish Travellers 1%

Black Irish 0%

Black African 10%

Black Other 0%

Asian 1%

Roma 0%

Other 5%

Ethnic Breakdown of Young people Engaged 'Cross Border Connections' Phase 2


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What the young people said… • “……… I had a lot of wonderful memories that built me to

become a better person. I learnt about myself, about my personality and how it's perceived by others. I learnt how different people express themselves differently because of the circumstances they lived through.”

• “(Louise) helped me develop a better perception of other people and how to approach problems the right way”

• “I learned I should treat people well if I expect to be treated well myself”

• “I learned that everyone is different” • “I am more aware of my feelings and beliefs and respect

others”


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Quotes continued… • “I understand everyone’s point and situations. This group helped

me be more aware of how to deal with discrimination and college situations”

• “I learned to take people’s feelings more seriously” • “I learned about how to be more confident around people” • “My communication skills have improved greatly. I have become

more considerate and I am able to assert myself correctly. I learned to respect other people’s cultures, religion and beliefs.”

• “I can more clearly express myself and to rationalise other people’s behaviour”

• “I learned so much more about people in different cultures, I am so happy I met everyone, they’re so real”


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Let’s Talk Donegal


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Let’s Talk Donegal


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Understanding Youth Leadership in a Diverse Society

• As our community has become more multicultural and diverse, we at Donegal Youth Service have recognised the lack of participation from minority communities in Youth Club settings – both from young people and Adults volunteers.

• In order to respond to this need, during Phase 1 of the Peace III Plan, we piloted a new programme “Youth Leadership with Diversity” which incorporated the delivery of OCN Level II Youth Leadership with non accredited Diversity workshops which explored sectarianism, labels & stereotyping, as well as accessibility of the clubs themselves to ‘Other’ communities who are resident in their area.


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Understanding youth Leader continued • During Phase II of the Peace III programme, we

aimed to re-write this OCN in its’ entirety and create a new OCN Accredited Programme entitled “Understanding Youth Work in a Diverse Society”.

• This programme includes the NYCI ‘Diversity Toolkit’ and is accredited at Level 2 with 9 credits

• Donegal Youth Service aims to roll this training out throughout the County in the coming years.

• 42 Volunteers have completed this training to date

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