Huge well done to young person Niamh and her Advocate Emily who decided to give some of their time to volunteer for Niamh's local tidy towns last week! They both did some really good work cleaning up the local area and sent us in some before and after pictures. Tidy towns is a great way
This week YAP are launching our now annual poetry competition which is open to all young people on the programme. We are asking for you to submit your original poems for a chance to will a One 4 All voucher. Advocates please encourage your young people to participate in this competition. The theme of the competition is
Due to the widespread societal restrictions imposed by the ongoing lockdown, YAP Ireland challenged our young people, advocates and staff to a 'Step and Snap' challenge to help us get through the dark winter months. This challenged encouraged our young people and staff to get out and embrace their local surroundings, in a socially distant
Recently, Staff members of YAP Ireland and YAP Inc along with Young People and family members had a powerful and inspiring conversation with Dr. Lucy Michael as part of our International Women's Day event for YAP's Global Youth Voices Initiative. We spoke about leadership, what it means to be a women in leadership and how we can lift each
Recently, the parents group had their ritual game of Bingo! To say it sparked bingo fever was an understatement!! Few excited people waiting patiently on their numbers to be called. Good fun was had by all. Congratulations to our 3 winners: Liz, Kim and new parent Annette. The prizes will be organised by Lead Advocates. We would like to welcome all
On Thursday the 4th of March YAP Ireland hosted our first webinar of 2021 to celebrate the launch of our Annual Report 2020. We were delighted to be joined by Guest speakers Marissa Ryan CEO of EPIC Ireland and John Farrelly CEO of The Mental Health Commission who offered valuable insights into their important work
This week our Staff Opinion Survey goes live! This survey was emailed to all advocates from our Human Resources team and is a really important aspect our our internal evaluation process. This survey is conducted each year to ask you your opinion of YAP Ireland in particular regarding your employment with us. The survey covers approximately
Hi everyone, I hope you are well. I want to thank you all for your ongoing commitment and support in providing services to children, young people and families throughout this difficult situation. As you are aware, we are remaining in Level 5 restrictions until 5th March and it is important that we continue to ensure
The YAP Meath team are well settled into their new offices on Brews Hill. To make it more young people friendly they have gathered together their young people and advocates to redecorate the office and have come up with some cool feature rooms. The new office space now features a cool cinema room with bean bags and a projector,
A Huge well done to YAP Young Person Martin from Portlaoise who was the winner of our short story competition winner over the summer. Below is a video of martin explaining the background to his story! MEETING MY IDOL: By Martin Redmond My day started off not so good, I went to school as usual
