Active and Healthy, Physical and Mental Wellbeing (Outcome 1):
Sexual Health and Wellbeing: To increase awareness of sexual health in the county and to increase number of professionals trained to deliver sexual health programmes.
Inclusive physical activity promotion: To provide increased opportunity to all children in Wicklow to be physically active and to increase number of trained parents/coaches and teachers.
Vaping and smoking: To reduce prevalence of vaping and smoking by young people; To support and promote vape/ smoke free zones across Co. Wicklow through Municipal Districts
Youth Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: To increase awareness of positive mental health and support services amongst young people: To increase awareness of effective approaches to reducing suicidal behaviour among young people; To increase awareness of youth mental health services for professionals in relation of under 18s services in the county.
Maternal Mental Health: To increase awareness of maternal mental health and supports and to reduce stigma.
Sleep Hygiene: To support parents in understanding the impact of sleep on physical and mental wellbeing in young people.
Expansion of Jigsaw Wicklow beyond North Wicklow: To support the expansion of the hub and spoke model of Jigsaw Wicklow outside North Wicklow and to promote engagement with Community and School Training
Child Health: To increase knowledge and awareness of child health in the county; To promote vaccination uptake in Co. Wicklow; To support the health and wellbeing of young children in Bray.
Trauma Awareness: To increase level of trauma awareness and trauma aware services in Co. Wicklow
Planet Youth Responses: To increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for young people in Wicklow
Achieving full potential in all areas of Learning and Development (Outcome 2):
School Avoidance: build on work from previous plans by hosting events for parents and raising awareness of the Wicklow School Refusal Pack.
Language Support: share and build on work already undertaken in previous plans and with partners such as SPECS and Wicklow County Childcare committee.
Literacy and Numeracy: a number of actions to strengthen literacy numeracy and bring awareness to literacy and numeracy tools working in collaboration with Wicklow Library Services.
Transitions: from pre-school to primary and primary to post-primary. Promoting the work of the National Parents Council and national initiatives that support parents.
Creative Arts in the Early Years: seek opportunities to bring creative arts to very young children.
Progression Pathways for NEETS young people and young people with disabilities: update/disseminate progression pathways guide developed by Wicklow CYPSC.
Planet Youth: To increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for young people in Wicklow by responding to the feedback provided by young people in the Planet Youth survey.
Safe and Protected from Harm (Outcome 3):
Child and Family Support Networks and Meitheal: ensuring a coordinated, evidence informed and interagency approach to the needs of children, young people, and families in Wicklow within the Tusla reform structure.
Training for Professionals: ensuring a coordinated/collaborative approach to training to avoid duplication and to ensure we are responding to the needs within the county.
Parenting Support: To utilise relevant funding to promote Parental Participation Projects and Parenting Support Champions; To co-ordinate and plan parenting supports including the promotion of parentingsupport.ie; To work with partners to establish Parent Hubs in Wicklow and support an existing Hub in Dunlavin, West Wicklow; To provide support to the NVR and SPACE networks across the area and to explore funding for further training in the area
New Communities: To ensure joint coordination and planning around new communities’ work in close collaboration with the Local Authority Integration Teams and Community Integration Forum.
Domestic Violence: To maintain the Domestic Violence and Abuse Network to ensure joint coordination and planning around Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence in the county.
Drugs and Alcohol: To support implementation of the Hidden Harm strategy through the Meitheal framework of family support; To promote the Drug Related Intimidation (DRIVE) programme and signpost victims and concerned others to the liaison and/or the nominated inspector.
Economic Security and Opportunity (Outcome 4):
Youth Employability: To establish the needs of the target group using a place-based approach. Identify and test appropriate response interventions.
Integration of New Communities: To ensure the integration of new communities and to use relevant funding to support integration initiatives.
Local Community Development Committee [LCDC]: To strengthen the relationship between Wicklow CYPSC and Wicklow LCDC and to raise issues impacting children and young people in Co. Wicklow.
Employment for those with disabilities: To promote pathways to education, training, and employment for those with disabilities.
Disadvantaged Youth in West Wicklow: To support target young people in West Wicklow.
Expansion of Sláintecare Healthy Communities: To seek to expand Sláintecare Healthy Communities into other areas of the county.
Food Poverty: To raise awareness of the issue of food poverty in the county and to build networks of support.
Child Poverty: To identify the drivers of child poverty in the pilot area and to test interventions using a Human Learning System [HLS] approach.
Connected, Respected and Contributing to their world (Outcome 5):
Youth Participation: Ensure the active participation of young people on CYPSC; To work with existing structures to maintain participation of children and young people in CYPSC 12-17 years; To provide participation training on a multi-agency basis informed by Hub na nÓg; To promote/ support the roll out of programmes under the Tusla Youth Participation annual funding.
Gaps in youth services: To identify and highlight gaps in youth services in Co. Wicklow so that they can be addressed by the relevant stakeholders.
LGBTQi+ Young People: To improve awareness of LGBTQi+ issues through training and other events.
Garda and Youth relationships: To create opportunities for positive garda/ youth relationships; To strengthen youth services relationship with Joint Policing Committee or Community Safety Partnership structures to ensure youth safety concerns are highlighted.
Substance Misuse and Vaping: To provide appropriate training to respond to the issue of drug misuse.
Gambling issues for young people: To raise awareness of the issue of gambling and how it might be addressed within the youth work context.
Rural isolation for young people: To examine the impact of transport issues for young people in South and West Wicklow where the impact of rural isolation is greatest.
Young Carers: To increase access to youth services by Young Carers.
Change Management:
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