Stand Up! In context 5 Strand Approach 1.Schools 2.Non-formal Education 3.Changing Attitudes 4.Lobbying & Research 5.Empowering Young People and Families.

Stand Up! In context

5 Strand Approach1. Schools2. Non-formal Education3. Changing Attitudes 4. Lobbying & Research 5. Empowering Young People and Families

Stand Up - 2010Non-formal Education & Online

• Youth Sector:– 2,100 + young people

• Viral: – Facebook likes 1,800– Website Visits 19,958

• Media– Colin Farrell– Ellen show– Late Late

• 5 ads – 19, 363 views• Growing Up Gay – 1 in 10 of population.

Stand Up 2011

• Schools – 750 (Partnership with Principals Association)

• Youth services – 750• Viral– Facebook likes 3,854– Website Visits 11,227

• Media

YouTube 2011 – 580,000 views in 4 weeks

School in DonegalSchool in Fermoy

Feedback from SchoolsIt’s an important

topic to deal with in schools’

‘We had a school assembly

to discuss it’

‘Students responded positively’

‘Most students didn’t previously know what LGBT

stood for’

‘I highly recommend

the Awareness

Week’‘DVD very effective in generating discussion’’ Send out a lot more posters!

‘I’m 17 and we’re not just going to

take part in Stand Up, we’re going to make our school LGBT friendly for

future generations of students to feel

safe’

"Their most recent campaign – Stand Up! provides what will be an annual focus for promoting positive awareness of LGBT young people, tackling homophobia and homophobic bullying, and building allies among young people and youth workers.

The Education Packs and other promotional material developed for the

campaign are very impressive and I know that they have been well received in

schools. Again, the endorsement by the NAPD of the campaign is an example of

how important a partnership approach in education can be. “ – Ruraí Quinn TD

Minister for Education & Skills

Galway – Youth ServiceBallymun – Youth Service

International Feedback‘We’d like to use it

for mandatory training of 35,000 professionals in South Australia’

‘We want to publish the

German version’

‘Our high school Gay-Straight Alliance

thinks your campaign is SO GREAT, is it

spreading to Canada?’

‘We used it in Espirito Santo

University, Brasil’

Council of Europe’s Commission on Human Rights

Thomas Hammarberg

‘Indispensible’

Context – Formal Education

National Association of Principals &

Deputy Principals

SPHE Curricular Development

Educate Together – ages 4 - 12

Department of Education &

Working Group

Context – Non-formal Education

National Youth Work

Advisory Committee

Department of Children

& Youth Affairs

Addressing Homophobia Guidelines

Youth Work Ireland

Context – Changing Attitudes

Growing Up Gay LGBT OK General

Practitioners Gay Prom

Context – Research & Lobbying

National Suicide

Prevention Strategy

Supporting LGBT Lives

Anti-Bullying Centre TCD

Drugs Research

Programme for Government

Context Empowering Young People

Network of 15 LGBT

youth groups (25 by 2014)

Developments and

campaigns directed by

young people.

Supporting young

people back to school

Advanced Youth

Leadership/Activism Training

How it all fits together:

Schools

Non-Formal

Ed

Change Attitudes

Research Lobbying

Credibility & ‘the case’

Show the needCreate willingness

Develop the message

Creates willingness

URGENCY

Reach young

people in multiple

ways

Empowering Young People

For DiscussionResponse

being driven by Young People

Insider/Outsider nature of

Education systems.

Does each country need a very

different response?

Acting in multiple areas of young people’s lives

Messages that empower

Young People

Thank You!