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Working with and for young people in Cumbria                Home

For further information contact:

North Cumbria - Chris Barry Tel:01900822110 Email:chris@cya.org.uk

South Cumbria - Cheryl Merrin-Rankin Tel:01229 870150 Email: cheryl@cya.org.uk

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Here are a couple of quotes from adult staff (that’s right you review what we do too!):


“Gave me a chance to re-evaluate – will impact on my teaching.”


Working with CYA has been valuable to our young people – We found that having someone very close in age to the students, and not from the teaching profession talking about drug and alcohol issues allowed students to open up more than they might do otherwise about their own lives and issues affecting them. We have found CYA workers to generally adopt an engaging style of presentation and not to rely on ‘lecturing’ our students.

Where this has worked best has been in game playing, role playing, and in general discussion exchanging personal experience and stories around the issues.”

Citizenship Co-ordinator,Cockermouth School.



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