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National Executive Meetings 2014-15

The National Executive meet once a month to work on their recommendation from Dáil na nÓg which is to: ‘Have a National Youth Gathering for 2nd Level students, with music and events, to improve attitudes towards Mental Health’ . We have had fourteen full meetings and three sub-group meetings so far.

So this is what we came up with to make this recommendation a reality – Let’s Go Mental is a series of 31 regional events for teenagers to promote positive mental health through music, sport, the arts and other fun activities. Let’s Go Mental events took place all over the country from June to November. The national launch of Let’s Go Mental took place in Dublin on Wednesday 24th June 2015. Watch the launch video here:

Final meeting: 12.09.2015

This was our final meeting as a group and involved a recap and sharing of ideas from those who have already had their Let’s Go Mental events, and those who have theirs coming up over the next six weeks.

Meeting 14: 21.03.2015
Want to know more about what we did at our last meeting? We got really creative around planning our national launch and coming up with some cheap and cheerful ways of decorating our regional event venues.
Click on link to find out: Meeting notes 21.03.2015

Meeting 13: 21.02.2015
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Meeting 12: 24.01.2015
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Meeting 11: 06.12.2014

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Meeting 10: 01.11.2014

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Meeting 9: 04.10.2014
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Meeting 8: 06.09.2014

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Meeting 7: 05.07.2014
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For more pics and info, see our Facebook page: Comhairle na nÓg National Executive

Sub-Group Meeting: 01.07.2014

On Tuesday 1st July, 11 members of the National Executive met with four of our Steering Committee of experts: Clive Byrne, NAPD (National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals); Elaine Geraghty, ReachOut.com; James Barry, Headstrong; and Gerry Raleigh, NOSP (National Office for Suicide Prevention). The purpose of the meeting was to present all work carried out to date, and to consult with the experts on a number of questions around our event and what would best achieve our recommendation, in particular in relation to the mental health aspect of it.

Topics that were discussed were as follows: type of event; target age-group; numbers of attendees; sponsorship; fundraising; event management and other logistical aspects of the day. We also discussed with them the promotion of our event and looked at the pros and cons of the use of celebrities to endorse it. Some terrific advice was given by the Steering Committee and has given us a lot of food-for-thought. We will take their ideas back to the full group on Saturday 5th July and follow up on all the different avenues of the event such as food, music and merchandise will be carried out sub-groups.

 

Meeting 6 : 21.06.2014
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Meeting 5 : 17.05.2014
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Meeting 4 : 12.04.2014
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Meeting 3: 22.03.2014
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Meeting 2: 22.02.2014

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Meeting 1: 18.01.2014
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Click here to find out:  Notes from 1st meeting of Nat Exec 2014-15