What is Youthreach?
Youthreach is a Department of Education and Skills official education, training and work experience programme for early school leavers aged 15 – 20. It offers young people the opportunity to identify options within adult life, and provides them with opportunities to acquire certification. As it operates on a full-time, year-round basis, Youthreach has a continuous intake policy.

 

Introducing Youthreach
Youthreach is directed at unemployed young early school leavers aged 15-20. It offers participants the opportunity to identify and pursue viable options within adult life, and provides them with opportunities to acquire certification. It operates on a full-time, year-round basis.

 

Its general objectives are as follows:
Personal and social development and increased self-esteem; second-chance education and introductory level training; the promotion of independence, personal autonomy, active citizenship and a pattern of lifelong learning; integration into further education and training opportunities and the labour market; the promotion of social inclusion.

 

Essential Course Elements:
Personal and Social development Vocational Skills Communications Skills The Foundation Phases programme is constructed as a curricular matrix incorporating these elements. This approach is also found in the certification offered by FETAC.

 

Ethos:

YOUTHREACH is a trans-disciplinary education and training programme. It is learner-centred and experiential. There is a strong emphasis on achievement and on developing the capacities of participants. The programme promotes the participants sense of self-worth and identity, as well as pride in their abilities and work. It is an integrated experience‚ personal, communications and vocational skills are integrated in a curricular and experiential matrix.Click here to access the Galway City Youthreach