Stay Safe Online: Empowering Young Minds Against Cyberbullying
To coincide with Safer Internet Day 2025, the National Youth Council of Ireland published its resource for youth workers, Stay Safe Online: Empowering Young Minds Against Cyberbullying.
This resource was developed by the National Youth Health Programme in response to conversations with youth workers across the island of Ireland in relation to cyberbullying and the impact it is having on the young people they work with. It is designed to empower youth workers, parents, guardians and caregivers with the knowledge to support young people.
The resource features statistics and information around bullying and cyberbullying, guidance on how to prevent and intervene in cyberbullying – offering supports to both targets and perpetrators – and provides signposts to services that support and inform.
Online Safety and Awareness in Youth Work eLearning Course
The NYCI is also offering free, on-demand online training to support the young work sector to help keep people safe online.
The Child Protection Programme in the NYCI supports the youth work sector to meet their child protection and safeguarding responsibilities, and has developed a new free eLearning course to support the youth work sector to help keep young people safe online. This course introduces youth workers and volunteers to key topics in online safety, and addresses the challenges that young people may face online. It also explores the importance of digital awareness in the role of the youth worker, and the ways in which they can support young people to be safer online.
Click here to enrol for this course.
