Art facilitation in ‘foroige’ youth club centre.

Mission StatementWe aim to identify and respond to the needs of young

people in a comprehensive manner through, a strong interagency collaboration.

We aim to enable young people to develop their own abilities and attribute , to think for themselves.

We promoting social inclusion for the young peopleWe respect the right and privacy of the young peopleWe help in enabling young people develop self confidence

and resilienceOur staffs at all time will be polite to listen to problems of

young people and approach it on a one to one basis.

BackgroundIs a clubs for young people from the age of 10-18 years

old. usually run by professionals and adult volunteers in their local area.

Foroige was formed in 1952.

Since 1952 till date the organisation has been a catalyst for social change in the community

The youth project is committed to providing quality youth work and educational services to local community, that enable young people to reach their full potential.

Foroige can be found in 26 counties across the country

The purpose is to reach out to every young people within their locality.

The youth club, meets the needs of each of their members. These needs include emotional, social and personal needs.

For my facilitation, I had made my self aware of the each of the young people in order to carry out a safe and effective facilitation.

Activities Junior clubs for young people. Educational programmes for second level student such as, after school

tuition programmes , maths and Irish for secondary school student. Home work clubs 3 days a week for young people. Computer programming for young people to learn important

computational ideas. Offers special programmes and training for schools Youth Booth Cafe to meet friends in a relaxed and safe environment Art and crafts, sport and team work programme for 5th and 6th class,

take place once in a week. Staff provide information and support for homeless young people Entertainment Events (Drug & Alcohol Free Event)

My facilitation.

I could not participate in the activities because, I was busy going around, showing and explaining to the participants how to make the flower vase.

Each of the group were eager to learn and took part in the activity.

The group consists of 14 members, and they were divided into group of 2, with 7 groups in total.

The materials was shared among the 7 groups.

Roll-up magazine flower vase craft

Materials used

Paper magazine glue PencilCanPipe cleanerScissorsstraw

My facilitation took place in a very large and calm environment.

These activities promote exploratory of materials and creativity.

Personal experience and involvement

The participates exploring the materials

Used of fine motor skills by another participants

The first sets of flower vase made

Another sets of flower vase by the participants

Different shapes of flower vase

Flower and vase

Learning Point From the FacilitationI observe that the activities boost young people life

skills and ability, as they learn how to deals with ranges of challenges and communicating with different type of people within the group.

Another aspect was that, the activities enable the participants to develop interpersonal skills, such as, confidence, social interaction and responsibility sharing.

The activities also enable the participants to get really involved.

Limitation to the facilitation

The materials was not enough to go round for every one. I went there based on the information I got, that there were only 10 young people registered for this year. This was a bite difficult for me.

Time was another limitation, 30 minutes was given to the activities, this was quite restrictive, as I have to go round to shared the materials. Also some of them were slow learner.

The young people do not like taking picture, during the activity.

EvaluationOverall the facilitation went well, as each participants were excited to part-took in the activity.

The participants really love art and craft a lot. This was one of the reason why all of them were fully involved, and found it very comfortable to ask for help throughout the facilitation.

I thought my facilitation was going to be very difficult, being my first time in the youth club, but it wasn’t.

ReferencesD, Lyon (2010). Creative studies for caring professions. Park West Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Publisher.

Foroige, The Nation Youth Development Organisation (online). Available: http://www.foroige.ie/about/ourhistory (Accessed on 10th October 2014)

Pattie WacDesigns 2011 Magazine roll-up craft. (Online). Available:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh27LHYWwtk&feature=related. (Accessed on 9th October 2014)