Equality & Intercultural
We support you to embed equality, inclusion, diversity and interculturalism in your youth work setting
We provide a unique and innovative suite of training programmes, resources, policy development, advice, and networking opportunities. We have carried out research to support youth work organisations to engage more effectively with young people from minority ethnic backgrounds. Central to our work is hearing the voice of young people furthest from the mainstream. NYCI members are invited to join our Equality and Inclusion Support Network.
Our equality and intercultural support includes:
- Access All Areas Diversity Toolkit (a self assessment tool for youth workers and managers) 13 Chapters – with checklist – on working with young people from minority or marginalised groups
- Lets Act on Inclusion video series
- 8 Steps to Inclusive Youth Work – a self-assessment tool to see how your organisation is performing on inclusion related issues – mapped against your reporting in NQSF and the National Youth Strategy – with good practice examples from 16 youth organisations.
- Educational Tool and Practice Manual on Transforming Hate in Youth Settings: an Educational Tool and Practice Manual
- Transforming Shadows activity resource for those working with young people on resilience, emotional development and overcoming conflict.
- Bridges & Barriers to Unity a toolkit for youth work to promote diversity and inclusion.
- Beyond hate activity resource for youth workers
- Transforming Hate in Youth Settings
- Embedding diversity
- Developing an inclusion and diversity policy
- Cultural Competency and Intercultural Awareness
- Developing an Intercultural or Inclusion Programme – practical supports for doing intercultural youth work
- 8 Steps to Inclusive Youth Work
- Tackling racism, homophobia and sexism
- Other specialised training on request. Contact anne@nyci.ie
- See our project linking young asylum seekers in DP accommodation centres and newly arrived Syrian refugees with youth work opportunities
- See our project Making Links where we are working with minority ethnic led youth group leaders who aren’t linked in to the mainstream youth work sector yet
- See the research Make Minority a Priority on the experiences of minority ethnic young people’s experiences growing up in Ireland.
- Are you looking for an answer to a specific question?
- Is there an issue you would like to see some discussion on?
- Are you looking for a resource that could help you in your work?
- Would you like to make contact with others doing intercultural and inclusive youth work?
- Would you like training in intercultural and inclusive youth work?
- Are you looking for support on the equality and inclusiveness requirements in the NQSF?
- Would you like the names of drama or art facilitators with expertise in intercultural and inclusive youth work?
- If you have a question, concern, request or comment please email Anne anne@nyci.ie or phone 01 4784122 or 086 7807705
Transforming Hate in Youth Settings
This educational tool and practice manual outlines an innovative new approach on how to transform hate in youth work settings. Focused on the youth worker, and their practice, it looks at self-awareness, taking a needs based approach, and building connections with young people though empathic listening.
Make Minority a Priority
This qualitive study explores the perspectives and experiences of 50 young minority ethnic people aged 15 to 24 years who have grown up in Ireland.
Access All Areas
This resource is essential for anyone working with young people and invites organisations to examine how they engage with youth from a variety of backgrounds. Access All Areas can be used with NYCI’s video series “Let’s Act on Inclusion“.
8 Steps to Inclusive Youth Work
The toolkit is broken up into 8 easy-to-follow steps, to help you identify how good inclusive practice is evident and measurable in your organisation’s youth work, while also referencing it directly to the NQSF Core Principles and Standards and to the Outcomes in the National Youth Strategy.
Map of Youth Work activities for Young Refugees
This online resource, developed by the NYCI, is designed to support young asylum seekers and refugees to link in to youth work activities in their area. It is developed in correspondence with the county based leaflets.
Making Links
Making Links is for anyone in Ireland who is running a minority ethnic youth group already or who has advanced plans to run a minority ethnic youth group. It is open to faith based, community based and issue based youth groups.
Equality & Intercultural Training
RESOURCING MINORITY-LED RIGHTS-BASED WORK Articulating your vision and understanding how to fund and resource your work November 2024 to June 2025
For the past year, NYCI and The Rowan Trust have been working on a collaborative granting scheme. After the 1 year review it has been decided to run a series of workshops and masterclasses to support potential beneficiaries to resource and fund their work with young people. This will happen through a mix of three in-person sessions, prerecorded “info vignettes”, and online optional meetings held over 8 months from October 2024 to June 2025.
Transforming Hate in Youth Work Settings
This training focuses on tackling hateful speech or behaviours in real and lasting ways. We come from the premise that hate and discrimination will not be changed by taking a punitive approach. The training gives tools to the youth worker to build their self-awareness, learn the principles of compassionate communication and adopt a needs-based approach to bring about lasting change.
8 Steps to Inclusive Youth Work – Training
Youth organisations can find it difficult to report on their inclusive youth work practice: “What should it look like?”; “Have we done enough?”; “Have we fallen short in some areas?”; “How do we do inclusion work in the context of other demands?”; “What are the key things we need to know to meet the key needs of minority and marginalised young people?”
Equality & Intercultural Resources
Looking out for, looking after, looking to each other Research Report
Perspectives from and about Black young people in Balbriggan, County Dublin. Developed by the Centre for Youth Research and Development and the Department of Applied Social […]
Submission on the National Action Plan Against Racism (2021)
NYCI’s submission relates specifically to young people’s experiences of racism and the recommendations they, and the youth work sector have asked us to convey.
8 Steps to Inclusive Youth Work
Let’s make sure you have all the bases covered when it comes to equality and inclusion.
Equality & Intercultural News
Survey – Working with young people in the International Protection System
The advocacy voice for young asylum seekers isn’t as strong as it should be, and for this reason we are pushing for more resources and focus on youth in IPAS accommodation but we need more data. Can you please take our survey?
We’re hiring: Equality and Inclusion Project Officer
The Equality & Intercultural Programme wishes to recruit a full-time Equality and Intercultural Project Officer.
Deadline to apply: 12pm Tuesday 12th August 2024.
Minister O’Brien announces new Advisory Committee on Racism and Racial Equality
We are delighted to announce that Rachel Coffey from NYCI and UN Youth Delegate Mohammad Naeem have been selected to join the newly created independent Advisory Committee on Racism and Racial Equality.
The Scheme to Support National Organisations is funded by the Government of Ireland through the Department of Rural and Community Development