Entries by Jenny Quinn

Webinar: ‘Why and How to Avoid Collaborating with the Alcohol Industry’

The Irish Community action on Alcohol Network is delighted to announce our next webinar : ‘Why and How to Avoid Collaborating with the Alcohol Industry’ Thursday, April 29th @ 10am We have an excellent line up of speakers; Mark Petticrew, Professor in Public Health in the University of Liverpool who will provide an overview of […]

Social Media training with Meath PPN: 21st April 2021 10am-12pm

The Meath PPN will be holding an online workshop on social media on the 21st April 2021 from 10am to 12pm. The workshop will be delivered Emily Bourke from the The Wheel. This workshop will guide you through the process of framing and telling your story through social media. You will be introduced to how […]

Young Social Innovators Virtual Speak Out Tour

Today Monday April 12th, Young Social Innovators is launching the YSI Speak Out Virtual Tour and we are inviting you to be part of it. Will you help recognise local teenagers making a difference to communities in the Meath region? Over 7,000 teenagers nationwide signed up to participate in Young Social Innovators this year, taking creative and collaborative action […]

MIND THE GAP WORKBOOK & COVID 19 – SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY START SECOND LEVEL EDUCATION IN SEPT 2021

In 2017, Navan School Completion Programme (NSCP) staff team with the support of Meath CYPSC, LMETB and Meath Springboard Family Support Services developed a workbook called; “Mind the Gap” Transition Steps from Primary to Post Primary The main aim of the workbook and its associated video is to assist young people successfully transfer from primary […]

Exciting Instagram Campaign with Meath Jigsaw

The Youth Advisory Panel (volunteers aged 16 to 25) from Jigsaw Meath will begin an Instagram campaign on Wednesday the 7th of April to promote the message of 5 a day for mental health. Each Youth Advisory Panel member will use an app called 1 Second Everyday: Video Diary to record 1 second a day […]

Meath Local Sports Partnership Virtual Easter Camp

Virtual Easter Camp The Community Sports Hub is running a FREE virtual Multi-Sport Easter Camp from Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th April, Via zoom. Activities include: Fun Games, Soccer, GAA, Circuits, Dance and many more Please are limited and are on a first come first served basis, please see details of the camp below and […]

Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and National Drugs Strategy commits to implementing the recommendations on drugs services from the scoping report on community safety and wellbeing in Drogheda

Click on the link below for further information: https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/fc216-minister-for-public-health-wellbeing-and-national-drugs-strategy-commits-to-implementing-the-recommendations-on-drugs-services-from-the-scoping-report-on-community-safety-and-wellbeing-in-drogheda/

Minister O’Gorman launches an online consultation on the development of a national model of parenting support services

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., has this week launched a public consultation on the development of a national model of parenting support services. The consultation will be open until 16th April 2021. The aim of the model is to develop a more coherent and strategic approach to the development […]

Foróige and CYPSC Launch “The COVID Word” Online Campaign

This is a social media campaign created in collaboration with young people from South Dublin, Sligo and Leitrim and in a partnership between Foróige and Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC). No two Covid-19 lived experiences are the same; we all have to navigate in unchartered emotional terrain – without a compass. In this […]