Tullymore Youth ServicesThe Upper Andersonstown Community Forum Youth services were established in 1995 to deliver youth and community services to families from the Andersonstown area. UACF’S commitment is to improving the life chances for our young people by providing a strength-based service which is centred around them, highlighting the importance of positive engagements.Our Youth Network is fundamental in our service planning, delivery and monitoring to encourage our stakeholders to get involved in our services. We believe that volunteering plays a vital role within our services developing a new generation of community leaders and outside of school educators supporting young people to reach their fullest potential.
UACF acknowledges that volunteers remain a key asset for the successful delivery of youth work provision. We have 25 years’ experience in delivering generic/ non-targeted youth provision. This has been achieved through delivering a youth club 3/4 night per week and it is strengthened by our management, youth network support and governance by effectively managing and supporting our services.
Young people’s health and wellbeing is identified as one of the key aspects and it strongly affirms the educative and developmental value of youth work in the lives of young people by asserting that the role of the youth service is vital in contributing to youth work outcomes. This leads to the raising of standards for all as well as closing the performance gap between the highest and lowest achieving young people.
Delivering services to support our young people helps them to achieve their goals and overcome barriers, including:
We have a current membership of 200 young people registered.
Delivering a coordinated programme of outreach and detached engagement to recruit young people by increasing numbers and membership of those participating in our generic youth services. We will provide youth drop-in on Friday evenings to encourage young people who don’t currently engage to avail of our services at targeted times.
Social action programmes which allow young people to build skills becoming active members and influential peer mentors within our services.
We have been tackling issues that create barriers to participation for young people at risk. Our Youth Programmes which we identified, designed and delivered have provided the young people of the Upper Andersonstown area with the following opportunities:
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s.mccabe@uacf.ie