News Release
Youth Conference
14th June 1999
The wide range of issues which affect young people in Northern Ireland are to be discussed at a special conference this week.
The three-day event, which will be held at the University of Ulster, which will bring together for the first time ever the province's young people with the professionals who are tasked with looking after them - from school teachers and youth and community workers to the policy makers in Government.University of Ulster
YOUTH CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16, and Thursday 17 June
Jordanstown campus
Fringe Workshops
Tuesday 15 June
10.00am Dealing with Young People and Trauma:
Andrew McGibbon
11.30am Young People Coping with Domestic Violence
Sandra Corrigan, Women's Aid
The Myth of the Youth Service (NI)
Richard Loudon, UUJ
2.00pm Taking Play Seriously
Jim Morgan and Margaret Murray, Playboard
Young Women Speaking Out
Gender Equality Unit - YouthAction NI
6.30pm Crime, Punishment and Restorative Justice
Liz McArdle, UUJ
Arthur Magill
The Voice of Young Parents
Tina Crossan, Young Parents Network
Conference Day
Wednesday 16 June
2.15pm Young People Caught in Cyber Web
Isy Hawthorne, UU
Challenging the role of Young Men in Northern Ireland
Ken Harland
Life on the Garvaghy Road - 'A Youth Perspective'
Hugh Campbell, UUJ Brendan McCann, CYW Student
Brassed Off! The Role of the Band in Northern Ireland
Tony Morgan, UUJ
DisABILITY & Young People in Northern Ireland
Disablity Action
Young People & Drugs: A Northern Ireland Perspective
Paul Fleming, UUJ
Elaine Moore, NDCT
Fringe Workshop
Thursday 17 June
10.00am The Picture from Northern Ireland UN Convention on Human Rights
Teresa Geraghty and Theresa McCaffrey
1.00pm Young People having a say in the New Northern Ireland
Paula Rodgers, Save the Children
For further information, please contact:
Press Office Department of Communication and Development
Telephone: 028 9036 6178
Email: pressoffice@ulster.ac.uk
