X-HALE Youth Awards - Annual Expo 2011

• Date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
• Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm
• Venue: Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin 1

Register online now - Please note each attendee must register separately - No Group Bookings can be taken!

Download the X-HALE Youth Award Expo Programme [pdf 73.2 KB]

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X-HALE Youth Awards 2012

Applications for the 2012 Awards will open in November 2011. Please check back in again for further information

X-HALE Youth Awards Scheme 2011

• What are the X-HALE Youth Awards?
• Awarded Groups for 2011
• Why the X-HALE Youth Award Scheme?
• What is the X-HALE Youth Award Scheme?
• How does the Award Scheme work?
• The Award Scheme will operate at three levels

What are the X-hale awards

The X-Hale Youth Awards Scheme is part of the Irish Cancer Society’s Young People and Smoking Initiative to generate a youth centred, positive, smoke-free initiative, for young people, in a way that is both sensitive and relevant to their community’s needs.

We would like to work with young people to address tobacco-related lifestyle issues and support them in the development of positive youth-led activities.

Ultimately we hope to empower young people to take ownership of their own health and make the commitment to smoke-free lifestyles.

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X-HALE Youth Award Scheme Groups 2011

The Irish Cancer Society is delighted to announce the 8 groups who were successful in their application to the X-HALE Youth Award Scheme 2011.

The competition and standard of the applications was very high and the following groups met the criteria and standards required to receive this award.

The groups came together in the Irish Cancer Society Offices on Friday, April 1st until Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 for a training weekend. Check out photos from the weekend at www.facebook.com/X-Hale-Youth-Awards.

• ECO-UNESCO, The Greenhouse, 17 Andrews Street, Dublin 2.
  ‘X-HALE Youth Forum – our community, our future’ - Amount awarded - €4,000

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Left to Right: Armin Krautgasser, Mack McGrath, Luke McCormack, John McCormack & Stephen Flynn

• South West Kerry, Family Resource Centre, 6 West Main Street, Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.
  ‘Cahersiveen X-HALE Youth Project’ - Amount Awarded - €2,200

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Left to Right: Conor Scanlon, john Michael O'Connell, John McCormack, Sean Egan & Nancy Holmes Smith

• Totally Terrific Club – Foroige, 3a the Shopping Centre, Ballybofey, Co Donegal.
  ‘It’s not fair, you’re claiming our air’ - Amount Awarded - €1,500

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Totally Terrific Club along with Joanne Vance & Eimear Cotter from the Irish Cancer Society

• Ceim ar Ceim, Unit 5, the Bays, Knockalisheed Road, Moyross, Limerick.
  ‘Choose’ - Amount Awarded - €1,600

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Left to Right: Kim Brown, Rebecca Carey, John McCormack, Daniel Phillips & Lisa Ryan

On Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 the Limerick Post published an article, "Anti-smoking campaign launched in Moyross".

• Youth, Work Ireland, Cork, Youth & Community Resource Centre, 11 Gurranabraher Rd, Cork.
  ‘Who said smoking is cool’ - Amount Awarded - €2,000

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Left to Right: Lorraine O'Sullivan, John McCormack, Clair Twomey & Eleanor O'Sullivan

• Newbridge Youth Project, c/o Newbridge Family Resource Centre, Dara Park, Newbridge, Co Kildare.
  ‘Stump the butts- Summer fest’ - Amount Awarded - €4,200

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Left to Right: Karolyn Phelan, Jamie Kearney, John McCormack, Conor Mulpeter & Leanne Cox

On Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 an article about "Young people to stomp out smoking in Newbridge" was published in the Kildare Nationalist.

• Youth Work Ireland, Galway, the Loughrea Project.
  ‘Adbusters – the real face of tobacco’ - Amount Awarded - €1,000

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Left to Right: Letizia Gorini, Jemma Gately, John McCormack & Aisling Porter

• Neighbourhood Youth Project 2, Bridgewater Hall, Summerhill Parade, Dublin 1.
  ‘You still smoking? You must be %&*£!^$ joking!!’ - Amount Awarded - €2,500

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Left to Right: Fergus McCabe, Neo Mokemane, Marc Colodeev, John McCormack, Tina Gabuza & Angela Crimmins

The groups came together in the Irish Cancer Society Offices on Friday, April 1st until Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 for a training weekend. Check out photos from the weekend at www.facebook.com/X-Hale-Youth-Awards.

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X-HALE Youth Award Scheme Winners with John McCormack, CEO of ICS

Why the X-HALE Youth Award Scheme?

• High smoking rates, particularly amongst young people, coupled with very high lung cancer rates nationally, means that something needs to be done about smoking.
• Ireland needs to reduce the number of young people smoking, discourage young people from starting to smoke in the first place, and support young smokers who want to quit.
• ICS has lots of experience in cancer prevention, smoking cessation and health promotion. We know that 1 in 3 cancers are linked to smoking. We also know that 9 out of 10 lung cancers are preventable. So why do people smoke, when they know it is doing them damage?
• The Irish Cancer Society knows that it doesn’t have all answers. Although we are new to working with young people in community settings, we know that young people have to be part of the picture if things are going to change.

What is the X- HALE Youth Award Scheme?

• We hope that the X-HALE youth Awards will catch the imagination of young people in communities where smoking is an issue. Young people regularly use their talents in a youth work setting, including music, dance, theatre, drama, art, sport, and social research. We know that young people, especially if they are given the chance, are imaginative, innovative and are able to make a difference.
• The X Hale Youth Award Scheme will create positive opportunities to:
  • Work in partnership to share our knowledge and experience and to open up an honest debate amongst young people about smoking in Ireland.
  • Encourage future young leaders, through practical skills training, to advocate for healthy, smoke-free lifestyles in their communities.
  • Support the development of creative tobacco-free campaigning activities, using a variety of media, for young people aged between 10 and 21 years.
  • Assist youth groups to develop positive alternatives for young people to persuade them not to take up smoking.
  • Empower you to empower your local community to take action to address health inequalities and the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine addiction on their community’s health.

How does the Award Scheme work?

• Award recipients will get the opportunity to demonstrate how they will tackle the area of smoking amongst young people in their community. They will prepare and deliver a local community awareness project with a tobacco-related theme, relevant to their target audience: young people aged from 10 to 21 years of age.

The Award Scheme will operate at three levels:

Local level: A grant will be given to help support the group in developing their project or campaign, which will end with a local event or launch to showcase the key messages in their local community.

Regional Level: Groups will participate in skills-based workshops, relevant to their project. Training will be provided by the Irish Cancer Society.

National Level: Groups will bring their final project to a national showcase event to highlight their achievements and raise awareness with other young people and encourage them to take action. The national showcase event will take place in late October during the mid-term break. Please check back here for further details closer to the time.

Check out our X-HALE Youth Awards Facebook page.

Any questions about the X-HALE Youth Awards, please contact Eimear Cotter on +353 1 2316624 or email: ecotter@irishcancer.ie.