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Welcome to this YouthPact Padlet capturing young people's reflections on being Peace4Youth programme participants in the Covid-19 pandemic.
You are invited to click on the images, links and posts in this Padlet and to listen to, watch, read and connect with the range, breadth and scope of young people's experiences of life in a period of restriction and disruption.

5 Takeaways from '2020 in 4'

1. Young people are significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic (loss of connection, isolation, disrupted relationships, education, opportunity).

2. Youth work helped mitigate that impact (by holding connection, "being there", maintaining relationships and hope).

3. Young people demonstrated resilience and drew on their own sense of self-efficacy to sustain themselves through the pandemic.

4. The experience, whilst sharing similar characteristics with that of their peers, was different for individual young people.

5. There is need for tailored responses and significant investment in youth work as we prepare again to emerge from the public health restrictions.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_3zNnf9q20orZdPol8hiQ4EBgYrSyDm/view

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A Breakthrough participant shares the personal ups and downs of  life in lockdown - and the expectant joy.

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A Journeys Fusion project participant shares her experience of being a Peace4Youth participant during lockdown.

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Journeys Fusion how it helped in lockdown1

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A Donegal Town Amplify - Foróige participant sketches out the feelings the virus evoked for them.

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Participants from across three Third Space project delivery sites, Cavan, Donegal & Banbridge, collaborated to produce a recording which embodies their hopefulness during the pandemic.

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A Strive project participant from the North-West illustrates her response and feelings to the public health messaging in the pandemic.

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One of 4 stories from young women on the Amplify - NIYF project, Ballymena

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This young North Belfast Alternatives - Strive participant draws on the positives of life in the pandemic during lockdown one.

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A Breakthrough participant wraps up their experience of life in the pandemic with a very powerful personal sentiment.

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A young person on the north Belfast Breakthrough project outlines the building blocks for finding happiness in the pandemic.

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Young people from the Futures project wrap up 2020 by sharing insights in to their successes and challenges, plus reflections on how Futures helped and what they are grateful for.

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The combined words of the North Belfast Alternatives - Strive project participants, put through a word cloud to striking effect.

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A Breakthrough participants shares their worry for the health of friends and family.

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A Breakthrough participant charts their journey to realising what's important to them in the pandemic

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Youthscape Youth Forum members checked in with past participants on their pandemic experience - and the results weren't all negative

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Young people from the Journeys, Define project delivered by RVRA in the Limavady area spell out what the project meant to them.

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Life as a teenager in Donegal during the pandemic, as reported by young people engaged on Youthscape.
(Donegal Youth Service)

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Young people from six Transform project cohorts  in Derry / Londonderry, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, Lisburn and Portadown share their experience of
'Life in Lockdown'

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One Breakthrough project participant spells out what saw them through the boring and helped them hold on to hope.

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North Belfast Alternatives - Strive participants reflect on the qualities and characteristics of Peace4Youth youth workers in the pandemic.

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One of 4 stories from young women on the Amplify - NIYF project, Ballymena

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Four words from a Strive project participant in the North-West sums up their experience of 2020.

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North Belfast Alternatives - Strive participants spelling out the impact of the pandemic on their time as Peace4Youth participants.

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A Breakthrough project participant reflects how the project helped them reflect on they dealt with lockdown.

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A young man who took part in the Journeys Gamechanger project, grateful for the help over lockdown.

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Young people from the north Belfast-based Breakthrough project spell out what being on the programme means to them.

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A Strive North-West participant highlights some of the personal stressors in the pandemic.

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A Donegal Town Amplify - Foróige participant recounts the changes wrought by the pandemic.

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A Breakthrough participant illustrates the interconnectedness & flow of emotions felt in lockdown

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North Belfast Alternatives - Strive participants spelling out the what it meant to them being Peace4Youth participants in the pandemic.

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This Breakthrough participant highlights what matters most to them.

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Memories and laughs feature in this summing from young people taking part in the RVRA-led Journeys, Define project.

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A young woman from Donegal Town tells her pandemic experience in four verses.
(Amplify - Foróige)

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A Breakthrough participant reflects on the excitement felt during the lockdown easing in summer 2020.

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A Journeys XCELER8 participant highlights the value of the project in helping her to "stay positive".

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A group of six young women aged 16 & 17 from mixed religious backgrounds, living in South Donegal and North Leitrim, describe their feelings and what they did to support each other.
(Amplify - Foróige)

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A Breakthrough participant covers the breadth and depth of life and loss in the pandemic.

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A north Belfast Breakthrough participant spells out the challenges they faced and and the opportunities they took during lockdown.

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A Breakthrough participant describes 2020 "as the hardest year ever".

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Third Space Banbridge High School participants share what they enjoyed in and the affect of life in lockdown. Watch to the end for the video outtakes 😁

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One of 4 stories from young women on the Amplify - NIYF project, Ballymena

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Youthscape Donegal participants ask the questions they had on the pandemic and share the their mixed feelings on emerging from lockdown one in 2020.

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Despite the shadow this Breakthrough participant was glad of time away in the pandemic.

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Journeys project participants reflect on their experience of the pandemic, what what they will leave behind, what they have learned and what they will take with them from it.

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A Breakthrough participant shares their appreciation of the project during their 14 day isolation period.

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This Breakthrough participant captures the mix of emotions and how they express them.

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One of 4 stories from young women on the Amplify - NIYF project, Ballymena

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Click on the image below to find out more about the aims and purpose of the YouthPact Young Voices '2020 in 4' initiative and for links to ideas to support young people to make sense of their ongoing pandemic experience.

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One young woman's vlog capturing her experience of the the Transform project during the extended lockdown in 2021.