Theresa is a mother who lost her son through a drug overdose. Her prestentation is hard hitting and I would encourage everyone to attend and/or bring along any young person who would benefit from witnessing the catastrophic effects of drug abuse.
Agencies such as Lifeline. Opportunity Youth etc will be in attendance that evening should anyone need any support, help or futher information.
On: Monday 20th February 2012
At: 7pm
In: Main Hall Brownlow Community Hub Craigavon
This event is not to be missed!!!!
We look forward to seeing you there
Youth Development Officer Barry Conway is planning to run the Belfast Marathon (26.2 miles) on Monday 7th May 2012. Barry will be running the marathon in aid of Children In Need. Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project have kindly sponsored Barry £100 from their fund raising money.
Keep checking our Website and Facebook for more information.
Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project will be having their AGM on Monday 20th February in Brownlow Community HUB. The business part of the AGM will take place from 2pm to 5pm and a presentation and workshops will take place from 6pm to 9pm.
Further information regarding the AGM will be up later on our website and Facebook page.
Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project recently submitted a funding application to Comic Relief for a Youth Development Officer who would work with young people and alcohol. We have been successful in getting to the next stage as we will have a site visit from the Comic Relief grants officer on 12th January 2012.
We have applied to Comic Relief for funding in the past but we haven’t been successful but we have now got to the final stage of the application.
Keep checking our Website and Facebook for updates on the application.
Staff at Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project have recently completed their OCN Level 2 in Drugs and Alcohol. The course was delivered by Caroline Boyle from Opportunity Youth. All the staff enjoyed the course and hope in the near future to complete their Level 3 award.
Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project had a young person nominated for ‘The Daily Mirror, Pride of Northern Ireland Awards’. The young person was Barry Mc Crory and he was nominated for all the wonderful work he does in our community.
Barry was nominated for “The Young Achiever of the year award” and was competing against 600 young people throughout Northern Ireland. Barry got down to the final 3 and was invited to Stormont to attend the Daily Mirror Pride of Northern Ireland awards. Barry was awarded with Young Campaigner of the year and he was delighted with his award.
Staff and young people that attended the event had a really good night. You can view all the photos on our Facebook page.
Joanne Shortall (Rank Youth Development Officer) organised a training day for all the staff and management committee from Drumgor Detached Youth Work Project in Drumellan community centre. The aim and objectives of the team building exercise were to recognise yourself, recognise yourself as a leader and how you work in teams that you lead.
Each team were invited to prove their skills for a very lucrative youth work contract. In order to get the contract the teams had to prove to the Aardverk team that they can meet the following criteria:
The Aardverk team then assessed all the work carried out by the teams and paid them accordingly if they met the criteria. There were also bonus points or deductions for good or bad work. Alicia and Declan earned both teams bonus points by EATING a worm.
The staff wont find out who the winners are until the Christmas dinner but we have been told there was only £20difference between the teams. The team building training proved to be a great success as all the staff and management committee really enjoyed it.
Photos to follow.
Staff and Management Committee had the opportunity to attend an awards ceremony in the Great Hall, Parliament Buildings, Stormont. The Justice In The Community awards ceremony was put in place to reward Justice Champions within the community. The ceremony took place on Wednesday 19th October 2011.
Have a look at Big Dave and David Ford MLA Minister of Justice.
Barry is currently working with 3 groups from the Brownlow area on issues identified by the young people. One of his groups are from the Ardowen area and they have been doing work around suicide awareness and racism. The second group are from the Meadowbrook area and this group of young men have been doing work around their community, sectarianism and recreational rioting. The final group are from the Drumbeg area and this group are working alongside Barry, Declan and Pete Wray who works for Youth Action. This young group are working on issues such as anger management, violence and their community.
Joanne is currently working with a young group of females who are know as “The Westeen” girls. Joanne has worked with this group before but new issues have been flagged to the team so Joanne is doing work around drugs and alcohol.
Julie Ann has been working with a group of young people from different estates within the Brownlow area and they have been meeting each week to see what issues can be brought forward for their youth panel.
We have also entered teams into the Midnight and Junior Street Soccer programmes which are running each Friday night at the MUGA’s at Clonmeen and Craigavon Leisure Centre.
