The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has secured €600,000 from the Dormant Accounts Fund for a Youth Employability Initiative. The Initiative aims to increase young people’s employability, enhance their acquisition of employability skills and aid their preparedness and progression to employment, education or training through engagement with youth work programmes provided by the voluntary youth work sector.
The Youth Employability Initiative was announced by Minister Reilly on the publication of the National Youth Strategy 2015 – 2020. Full details of the Initiative, including the application form have been made available on this Department’s website, www.dcya.gov.ie. It is proposed that applications will be submitted to this Department through the relevant ETBs.
Applications must be submitted to the relevant ETB by 5th November 2015. The completed comment sheets should be submitted along with the application forms to this Department by 5pm on Thursday 12th November 2015.
Please click links below for Application form, Guidance Note and Application Form and FAQs.
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