KDYS YOUTH WORKER ARTS SKILLS TRAINING DAY

Saturday, 4th February 2012

Flora Onorh Egharevba, Anne Kelliher, Grace Boyle, Alicia O Connor, Una Flynn, Oonagh Ward, Fiona Ladden (Facilitator) & Catherine O Reilly in the Wool Felting Workshop


Kerry Diocesan Youth Service offers a range of personal, social, recreational & educational programmes to young people throughout Kerry & parts of West Cork. Many of these programmes are organised, driven and resourced by voluntary youth workers who are supported & trained by paid staff.

In turn the organisation supports staff & volunteers through the provision of a comprehensive annual training programme relevant to the emerging needs of young people & those who work with them. KDYS values the arts, as an important tool, in the delivery of appropriate responses to the needs of young people.

A group of volunteers enjoying the Brief Interventions Workshop

This year’s skills day provided a full day of training to staff & volunteers in the organisation and wider community giving a basic introduction to a range of arts, skills & experiences. It provided a positive learning experience in areas such as Wool Felting, Drama, Social Media, Junk Art and Co-operative Games, with the expressed intention that these skills will be brought back to the young people in youth clubs and youth activity projects throughout the diocese of Kerry. Participants were able to attend 4 out of the eight workshops on offer throughout the day.

 Deirdre Duggan enjoying the Junk Art Workshop

The event also provided access for participants to a range of local & regional facilitators of the arts, should they wish to engage them personally at a later date, for specific work with their own youth groups.

It was also an opportunity for participants to forge links or create alliances with other like minded youth workers in order to work in partnership in the future on an arts based theme or project.

Over 50 volunteers participants on the day, who will now return to over 30 youth clubs & projects excited, enriched and invigorated about sharing their newly acquired arts skills.

                    


KDYS SkillShop is supported by the Kerry Education Service.