Growing Pains

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Growing Pains
Youth Alcohol Young Students Perspective St
Marys Secondary School 2004
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Main Project Aims
1. Establish a Youth Café - somewhere to relax
socialise in an alcohol free environment
2. Recognise Positive Contribution made by Young
People in society
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Dont tar us all with the same brush
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Govt slammed over alcohol 'crisis RTE
September 30, 2003
Young Irish Biggest Binge Drinkers - Irish
Examiner 10/09/2003
Dáil na nÓg 2003 Teenagers want alternatives
to drinking and the Leaving Cert changed!- 16
November 2003
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Why Do Teenagers Drink
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Forbidden Fruit
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Drink Culture
The More the Merrier
Enjoying a Drink
V
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We Must be the Change we wish to see in the
World Mahatma Ghandi
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ABOUT MALLOW
Approx 20,000 people in Mallow
50 population under age of 24
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Places where we Socialise Davis College TY Survey
2003 of 177 TY Students
CLOSED 2003
CLOSED 2003
NO YOUTH AFTER 8 2003
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What happens when the youth population of Mallow
explodes as expected
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Were Not
all
BAD
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POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION
Voluntary work
Sports
Music Culture
Community work
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Lack of Facilities
Not attractive for new families
Young people are leaving the town
BRAIN DRAIN
Run down facilities are a zone for illegal
activities ie. Drug dealing
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Youth Facilities can be Profitable sustainable
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We have the motivation
We need Facilities
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Mallow Youth Cafe
A step in the Right Direction
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ARTICLE 12 UN Convention of the Rights of the
Child
The Right to a Voice The Right to be Heard The
Right to be Safe
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The Youth of Today are the Light of the Future