Congratulations to Young Person Jessica on taking part in Malahide's Got Talent on Sunday night. Jessica did fantastic and definitely has a future in singing. Also thanks to her advocate Christine for supporting her to pursue this and getting her enrolled in a number of different competitions. You can see a picture of Jessica in action attached. Apologies the quality of the picture is not great.
13 young people and Advocates attended a fabulous pamper night organised by Advocates Louise Dwyer & Breffene Rogan on 26th January in Dublin. A huge thank you to Kelly for coming in and doing the girls make-up. She did a fantastic job, and they were all delighted with the little presents. Also many thanks to Breffene for doing the girls nails & Louise & Breffene for organising the night.
YAP Ireland received a cheque this week for �315.38 from Tesco, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 for the Tesco Community Fund. Thank you to all who voted for YAP.
The Active Inclusion Learning Network report, �What approaches contribute to improving employability and employment outcomes amongst socially excluded groups.� June 2015 names YAP Ireland as a Good Practice.
We have a very talented young person in Meath, Kieffer who is particularly good at art and has a number of excellent comic book drawings. Kieffer has written a little piece on each drawing and you can see the artwork attached. Well done Kieffer!!
Congratulations from all at YAP Ireland to the young people who received their Leaving Cert results last week
St. Gabriel's youth group choir known as Spiritual Harmony have put together a CD of 10 gospel songs to raise money for YAP.
Well done to Case Manager Karen Williams and her team in Cavan/Monaghan
Well done to Shannon a young person from Limerick and her Advocate Michelle who put together these three collages with pictures. The pictures depict a week of their activities including a visit to the circus and to the opening of the special Olympics.
Congratulations to one of our young people on the YAP Meath programme and her Advocate Anne who recently completed a project for the Volunteering Mat-ters initiative.
