Bachelor [Community And Youth Work] From Maynooth University

By taking our degree in Community and Youth Work you will be participating in a programme of professional education and training that engages you as an active participant in your learning while working in solidarity with those affected by human rights denial, poverty and inequality.?

Choose this Comunity and Youth Work degree at?Maynooth University?if you are interested in:

• Professional education and training that engages you as an active participant;
• Working in solidarity with those affected by human rights denial, poverty and inequality;
• Community work - the development and empowerment of communities, and facilitating the active participation of people in addressing issues that affect them collectively;

• Youth work ? focusing on young people (defined in Irish legislation and policy as a process of personal and social development based on voluntary participation and principles of equality and inclusiveness).

Career Options

Graduates are equipped to take up professional employment in a range of community and youth work organisations and agencies - community development projects, local, urban and rural development groups, community youth projects, neighbourhood youth projects and local youth services, as well as organisations concerned with particular groups (e.g. women, Travellers, new communities) or issues (e.g. unemployment, migrant rights, drugs, poverty).