NYCI’s Annual Report 2024 highlights a year of action, collaboration, and advocacy for youth work in Ireland. It showcases the impact of our programmes, campaigns, and partnerships, and reflects the vital work of youth organisations nationwide in supporting young people to thrive.

PDF P.34 Laura, a youth worker at Crosscare, on how youth services are often the only support for young people with addiction or family problems.
I work with a young person who’s addicted to crack cocaine. He’s 19 now, and has been engaged with our services since he was seven. In these services, we talk about how people need to be voluntary participants in their addiction treatment. It often goes unsaid that the reality is: youth workers do a lot of running and chasing, making sure they know we’re there for them, no matter what....