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
On October 29th 2020 YAP Ireland hosted our first ever online virtual event through zoom. In previous years YAP hosted National Events in Croke Park, bringing together our 300+ Young people, families, staff and stakeholders to celebrate our clients and discuss topics that were important to them. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 we were unable to
For anyone who has forgotten to register for tomorrows Webinar Event can you please follow the below link and register your attendance. Once registered, zoom with automatically generate you a log in link - registration is necessary to gain access to the event. REGISTER HERE
Looking after our Community Over lockdown our young people have become more familiar with what is around them in their localities. This Mayo Young person lives in the country side and was not too impressed with the litter that was accumulating on the road. The advocate bought litter pickers and they both practised their social
Since lockdown was announced in the middle of March, our Young People and Advocates have been finding new and creative ways to connect, engage and achieve their goals. To lessen the disconnect across our organisation we asked our young people to send us in some pictures of what they have been getting up to each
On Wednesday the 19th of February 2020 The YAP Ireland Youth CEO Group launched their report on Homelessness in Ireland. Throughout 2019 the group concentrated their efforts on learning about what it's like to be homeless in Ireland, what services are available and what we can do to help. Many of our young people in
