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Listen to them! The challenge of capturing the true voice of young people within early intervention and prevention models; a youth work perspective

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  • Healy, Maria
  • Rodriguez, Leonor

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This paper aims to explore the challenges to youth work in capturing the voices of young people in a meaningful way within Meitheal and the Child and Family Support Networks model (Meitheal). This is a prevention and early intervention model for statutory and non-statutory agencies working with children, young people and families. This paper, within the context of Meitheal, will explore how best to achieve positive outcomes for young people, and identify what are the barriers which inhibit their full participation in this model. A total of 16 youth workers completed semi-structured interviews that were transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis. The analysis identified three themes: ‘Role of youth work in Meitheal’, ‘Barriers and facilitators of adolescent voices in Meitheal’ and ‘The young person’. The study found that youth workers recognise advocacy and support of young people as a key role for their profession within models of prevention and early intervention. Barriers to adolescents' active engagement in Meitheal were the formal structure and agenda, but also the need to achieve outcomes in exchange of professional validation. Youth workers are also concerned about the nature of young people's participation as being fully participatory and voluntary in the process, whilst questioning if their voices are truly being included in a meaningful way.

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  • Healy, Maria & Rodriguez, Leonor, 2019. "Listen to them! The challenge of capturing the true voice of young people within early intervention and prevention models; a youth work perspective," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 27-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:96:y:2019:i:c:p:27-33
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.11.027
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