Donegal Youth Service in association with the Donegal Sexual Health Forum would like to announce plans for the

2012 Sexual Health Awareness Week.

Lets Talk About Sex is a Sexual Health Awareness Week will be held from Monday 23rd until Friday 28th  April 2012

The aim of the week is to promote healthy and supportive conversations with young people about sex, sexual health and sexuality. We want to encourage adults to get involved especially parents, family members, teachers, youth workers and all the key influencers in young peoples lives.

We want to ensure that young people are supported in terms of having some one to talk to and make sense of all the mixed messages they get and to know where to go to find factual, understandable information.

If you want to get involved please contact us

Launch of Youth Club set up Guide

Donegal Youth Service today launches its youth club set up guide, entitled ‘Thinking of setting up a Youth Club?  We Can Help!’  This handy brochure details the steps community activists can take in the development of setting up a community led youth club.  Local communities want the flexibility to work at their own pace, and respond to locally identified needs.  This is where the guide comes in handy.  The guide is a ready reckoner for volunteers who want to ensure all necessary steps are in place before, during and after set up.  Charlene Logue, Senior Youth Worker in Donegal Youth Service  says ‘in the current climate of unemployment and uncertainty, communities are rallying together  looking for less cost intensive, more pocket friendly activities for their children.  The heart of a local community is often the local sports and youth clubs.  People come together to ‘knit and hold’ communities together, to encourage participation and foster a sense of belonging.  We want to encourage this, and want to assist where we can. It isn’t about ‘doing to’, rather than ‘doing with’ local communities.  We want to support local volunteers to be able to self-support and self-manage, but with the support of Donegal Youth Service.  We want to enable local communities to be self-sufficient in terms of youth provision. ’ 

For a copy of the guide or further information, please contact Donegal Youth Service on 07491 29630 or click here.

Youth Clubs affiliated to DYS are marked on the map above. Use the controls on the left of the map to zoom in or move around, or click and drag the map to move around and click on a marker for more information about each youth club. You can also double click to zoom in.