Northern Ireland - NEELB

The North Eastern Education and Library Board delivers Youth Services directly to young people aged 4-25yr olds in a variety of settings such as full-time and part-time youth centres, outdoor centres as well as through outreach work and specialist programmes, particularly focussed on enhancing the inclusion and participation of young people.  The provision of the youth services can broadly be categorised into two types; targeted and generalist.  Targeted provision seeks to address the direct impact of exclusion and marginalisation, addressing key themes of work, such as risk-taking health behaviour, disaffection and low levels of attainment in school, sectarianism and racism, while also focusing resources on specific groups of young people that are most marginalised, such as those young people in Section 75 groupings.  

With generalist youth provision ensuring supportive environments are made available to a significant proportion of young people throughout our communities, to help them to enhance their personal skills, levels of motivation and general resilience and to help them to develop their ability to interact with other young people and adults.

The key purpose of North Eastern Education and Library Board Youth Service is:

“to enable young people to develop holistically, working with them to facilitate their personal, social and educational development, to enable them to develop their voice/influence and place in society and to reach their full potential.”
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