Republic s youth support workers ‘stretched to the limit during Covid Rachael Treanor of the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) described the sector as “grossly understaffed” Michelle Devane, PA 06 May, 2021 15:17
Youth support workers are “stretched to the limit” and “completely burned out” due to the increased demand for services during the pandemic, an Oireachtas committee has heard.
Rachael Treanor of the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) described the sector as “grossly understaffed”.
The National Youth Health Programme manager told the mental health committee that additional funding is “crucial” to combat the issues that will face young people after Covid.
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Ambulance service alerted to help over 400, say mental health group Service contacted following engagment with organisation SpunOut’s text messaging aid
Thu, May 6, 2021, 13:13 Updated: Thu, May 6, 2021, 15:54
The National Ambulance Service was contacted to help more than 400 people in “a place of real and active danger” following engagement with a text messaging service run by the youth mental health organisation SpunOut last year.
The charity said it had 33,000 support conversations through its 50808 service between June and December, with one-in-five people texting them to say they had suicidal thoughts.
SpunOut presented its data during an Oireachtas sub-committee hearing on Thursday, examining youth mental health challenges brought about by the pandemic.
On the latest episode of this season of Youthscene, James Doorley of the National Youth Council of Ireland outlined the issues surrounding youth unemployment at the minute with host Aidan Delaney.
James highlighted the obstacles that young people are facing with the services industry still closed thanks to Covid while also discussing the prospect of a living wage and emigration when society reopens.
Also joining us on the show this week was young poet Sinead O’Reilly, a student in Loreto Wexford who has helped set up the Deep Routes Poetry Exchange for this Thursday’s National Poetry Day.
We heard about how Sinead got involved in writing, she told us about her heroes in poetry and why young people are leading the way in the arts.