Browsing Child and Family Research Centre by Title
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Understanding Youth Civic Engagement:Debates, discourses and lessons from practice
(Unesco Child and Family Research Centre, 2012)This paper outlines key definitions and typologies that help to distinguish youth civic engagement activities from other forms of youth activity. It identifies five discourses that create a rationale for youth civic ... -
Walking a mile in Viktorija's shoes: Resilience, (Post-) memory and affordances
(Transcript Verlag, 2020-11-09)[No abstract available] -
Working for children and families: exploring good practice
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, WHB/ NUI Galway, 2004) -
Youth advocate programme evaluation report
(Child & Family Research And Policy Unit, WHB/NUI Galway, 2004) -
Youth Advocate Programme profiling study: HSE Local Health Areas Dublin South East, Dun Laoghaire and Wicklow
(Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, NUI Galway, 2006) -
Youth Café Toolkit. How to Set-up and Run a Youth Café in Ireland
(Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, 2010-04) -
Youth Cafés in Ireland: A best practice guide
(Stationary Office, Dublin, 2010-04)[No abstract available] -
Youth mentoring and the parent-young person relationship: considerations for research and practice.
(The National Youth Agency, 2008)Over recent years, youth mentoring has become increasingly popular as an intervention for young people deemed to be in need of support. There is a need, however, to pay attention to the potential impact of mentoring on ... -
Youth mentoring as a form of support for children and young people at risk: Insights from research and practice
(Routledge, 2017-02-16)[No abstract available] -
Youth mentoring as a supportive resource for young people involved with CAMHS: An exploratory study
(Foroige and UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, 2022)Adolescence is an important developmental stage in which lasting patterns of health and wellbeing are established (Sawyer et al., 2012). Due to the social, mental and physical changes that occur during this transitional ... -
Youth Mentoring as a Tool for Community and Civic Engagement: Reflections on Findings of an Irish Research Study
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-12-07)Youth mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) are traditionally considered to be a vehicle for youth development rather than community development. In fact, the notion that the one-to-one engagement that ... -
Youth Mentoring in Ireland: Weighing up the Benefits and Challenges
(Irish Youth Work Press, 2007)Internationally, mentoring for young people has become increasingly attractive to policy makers as a micro-level response to the needs of young people deemed to be ¿at risk¿ or in need of support. The Big Brothers Big ... -
Youth suicide and self-harm: Latent class profiles of adversity and the moderating roles of perceived support and sense of safety
(Springer, 2023-03-24)Research suggests that exposure to adversity can lead to an increased risk of experiencing suicidal and self-injurious thoughts or behaviours, but few studies have examined whether different patterns of adversity are ...