Youth Service

We have four Youth Support Workers located around the country who work directly with children and young people with neuromuscular conditions and their families. MDI’s Youth Service Programme aims to support, encourage, and enable young members to grow, develop and achieve their full potential through building confidence, self-esteem, resilience and empowerment. We aim to offer a Youth Service Programme that is:

• Purposeful – all elements of the service are designed with the purpose of supporting, encouraging and enabling young members to grow, develop and achieve their full potential

• Needs-led – we make sure that the needs and interests of our young members lead us in what we plan for the service and how we deliver it

• Outcomes focused – we plan and deliver the service with an end-result in mind for our young members, for example, that they will feel more confident socialising and forming friendships or that they will develop a practical skill, such as cookery or art.

Our national programme of activities for young people includes a variety of day trips, youth club activities and workshops as well as one-to-one, goal-focused work where needed. Children and young people have an opportunity to get together with their peers as well as with friends in the wider community, to form friendships, share experiences, have fun, and build confidence and self-esteem.

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