»Youth Link NI

Youth Link provides:

skills training for all those involved in youth ministry, including community relations youth work;
professional/accredited youth ministry and community relations training, informed by the latest theory and practice;
opportunities for young people of different traditions and cultural backgrounds to develop mutual understanding, tolerance, acceptance and respect and be active contributors towards reconciliation and building a better society.
All training programmes and events operate with a distinctively Christian ethos.

Youth Link offer various courses including:

- Intro to CR Work (OCN)

- Intro to Youthwork (OCN)

There are many other courses on offer for both youth leaders and young people, so visit their website and see if any suit you!  

» Love For Life

Love for Life is a project that supports young people and their carers in the area of relationships and sexuality education.

Love for Life delivers training and personal development programmes in primary and post-primary settings and to youth and their parents or carers in community and church settings. Their programmes provide information, advice and support with regard to issues pertinent to relationships and sexuality education and other risk taking behaviours, which include alcohol, nicotine and illicit drug use.

Love for Life aims to support its various programmes by offering training, producing resources, influencing policy and carrying out research that will act together to increase the long-term effectiveness of the project.

Love for Life aims to support youth workers in helping their young people make healthy choices in the area of relationships and sexuality, and over the past number of years Love for Life has been asked to deliver training to youth workers from a variety of sectors.

For further information on Love for Life and their resources visit their website. 

» Care for the Family

Care for the Family aims to promote strong family life and to help those hurting because of family breakdown.
Our heart is to come alongside people in the good times and in the tough times - bringing hope, compassion and some practical, down-to-earth help and encouragement.

Care for the Family's website contains a wealth of information on family related issues such as parenting, marriage, drugs awareness courses, and building faith into our children (Hertiage Builders).  Care for the family run various training workshops and conferences regularly, why not check out their website and see if one suits you!

» The Good Book Company

The Good Book company aim to provide a wide variety of training courses and books to cover both basic and advanced skills. They also provide a number of training seminars and conferences around the country, including a residential conference for youth and children’s workers. To find out about training opportunities and training seminars provided by The Goodbook Company check out their website.