Case Manager, Amanda and the Advocates in Cork were recently involved in a great participation project with Pieta House in Cork. The project involved a number of young people and Advocates working on a three-part art piece where the young people highlighted the theme of ‘a Gift of Hope’.

YAP Ireland contracted a research team from National University of Maynooth to carry out an external evaluation of the YAP Ireland model.

In 2013, YAP Ireland CLG worked with a UK based group Investing in Children to review how YAP promote young people’s rights in our work. We felt that this was a good opportunity for YAP to put forward our strengths based approach and commitment to involving young people in all aspects of our work.

YAP Ireland carried out a Partner Opinion Survey as part of our Annual Report 2013 theme ‘Partnership’. The survey was completed online by partners of YAP Ireland, primarily referrers to the YAP Ireland service.

On the 31st of May in conjunction with Meitheal Mara, 8 young people on the YAP Ireland programme in Cork competed in the annual international Ocean to City race.

On February 20th, the YAP Youth Forum met for the third time. 18 young people from the programme attended the day. On the day, the group discussed how the group would work, how the Youth CEOs would be elected and they did some work on developing an information brochure on the group.

Thank you to all those who took part in the 2014 Flora Women's Mini-Marathon!

Thank you to all those who took part in the 2014 Flora Women's Mini-Marathon!