Projects

Caribbean Youth Fellowship II Programme

The Caribbean Youth Fellowship, funded by the International Republican Institute (IRI), is a comprehensive 16-week programme designed to empower and prepare young leaders for effective leadership roles. The programme focuses on key areas such as policy development and advocacy, governance structures and analysis, and community engagement initiatives. The unique approach includes facilitated seminars, workshops, guided discussions, learning-by-doing creative activities, field trips, and awareness campaigns/public debates.

Objectives: - the main objectives of the project are to: 

• Equip youth with the hard and soft skills to be effective leaders and implement community engagement/initiatives. 
• Enable youth to develop and start implementing community engagement initiatives or “action plans” per country around the thematic topics. 
• Facilitate teamwork to build sense of innovation, creativity and synergy

R.E.A.L. M.E.

Social Work Training & Research Centre (SWTRC) received two grants;

1. From the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) to implement the project at Waterford High School with approximately 30 students. 

2. From the United States Embassy, Kingston to implement the project at the Papine High School with approximately 30 students.

The R.E.A.L. M.E.  Project focuses on improving the psycho-social environment of youth aged 13 to 18 years old. We addressed this through facilitated arts and culture workshops aimed at providing skills and critical knowledge related to wellness and wellbeing. The R.E.A.L. M.E. project consisted of four main activities: Art and Culture Youth Club sessions (ACYC) - The ACYC consisted of weekly after-school sessions led by facilitators. The sessions used guided discussions and interactive activities to teach aspects of wellness and wellbeing outlined in the R.E.A.L. M.E. acronym, specifically 

• Relational health; 
• Emotional health; 
• Attitudes; 
• Lifestyle; 
• Mental health and 
• Economic/education. 

To complement these activities art, music, drama and dance were incorporated throughout each session

Our hope is that these skills and knowledge learned throughout the project can be used in multiple life domains and could, in tandem with appropriate follow up and complementary interventions have a long-term impact on the youths.

Transitional Living Programme for Children in State Care (TLP-CSC)

The Transitional Living Programme for Children in State Care (TLP-CSC) project is sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is being implemented by the Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC), The UWI Global Campus under a partnership with the Child Development Agency (CDA), and in collaboration with the Social Work Training and Research Centre (SWTRC), The UWI Global Campus and the University Project Management Office.