Youth Outreach Mentors -Community Based (Breakthrough Programme)

Ashton Community Trust has secured funding for the ‘Breakthrough’, a Peace IV Children and Young People Programme.

Ashton Community Trust has secured funding for the ‘Breakthrough’, a Peace IV Children and Young People Programme. The programme will engage up to 172 young people aged 14 – 24 years’ per year from across North Belfast, Shankill and Newtownabbey through working in local schools and in partnership with youth and community organisations. The programme will be delivered in partnership with Cliftonville Community Regeneration Forum, Ardoyne Youth Enterprises, Mount Vernon Community Development Forum (operating on behalf of Loughview Community Action Partnership), Newtownabbey Antrim Cultural Network (NACN), Street Beat, New Life City Church and YEHA Youth Project.

A Community Programme delivered over five days per week and facilitated by one full time youth outreach mentor will be based in each of six partner communities engaging young people aged 16 – 24 years in an outcomes focused good relations, personal development and citizenship programme. Young people will engage in a range of activities including one-to-one mentoring, good relations, personal development and life skills group work, team building activities, residential experiences, a mandatory menu of sports and arts training, citizenship training, support on progression and additional training needs.

“A project supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).”