Words & Deeds, a series of free public readings by award-winning writer Sylvia Cullen will take place at 8.30pm in the Shamrock Hall, Kilanerin on Friday, November 24, at 7pm in Askamore Community Centre on Saturday, November 25 and at 3pm in Hollyfort Schoolhouse on Sunday, November 26.
A resource pack specifically aimed at improving outcomes for children and young people experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA) was officially launched recently in the Riverside Park Hotel, in Enniscorthy.
Gorey Youth Needs is calling on all young budding writers to Tell it Like it Is in a new essay competition which aims to capture the experiences of young people during the pandemic.
The competition aims to hear the voices of young people and what they think about this challenging ten months, all the ups and downs and everything in between and the winner will be announced online on March 12, to mark one year of us living with Covid-19 here in Ireland.
With two categories for primary and secondary school students, there are great prizes up for grabs and the winners will have their essay published in this newspaper.
Gorey s Daniel Kenny has told his story of adult education in a new booklet by AONTAS which celebrates the impact of young adult learners sharing their experiences of the National FET Learner Forum.
Available online at www.aontas.com, the booklet has been launched to coincide with nationwide events taking place online to encourage people to enter adult education.
In his story, Mr Kenny explained that taking part in further education has changed him after he first started a course at Gorey Youth Needs. School wasn t for me but since I ve been in the ETB, I ve just excelled, he said. When I did a Level 4 Pathways to Employment course, it was a pilot programme but from the moment I walked in the door, all the students and coordinator were so relaxed. It was like a friend talking to you rather than a teacher and that s what really benefited me.
The team at Gorey Youth Needs were busy in the run up to Christmas making some last minute drop-offs to families in the district.
At the start of the Christmas effort, the team made an initial list of families in need, but Mandi Tighe of Gorey Youth Needs said that all the team were brought to the point of tears when they realised the level of demand out there in the community. When we started our list, we had about 35 families. The social workers we work with can advise us and we don t need to know who they are, we just arrange the drop offs discretely.