CYP Now - Promoting respect for diversity in the community

Groundbreaking programme helps parents realise how their behaviour and prejudices affect their children and others, so they can develop respect for difference.

Project focuses on early childhood development for peacekeeping and social cohesion. Picture: Sinead Crumlish

PROJECT

Shaping Ourselves and Our Children (SOOC)

PURPOSE

Promoting better community relations through positive parenting

FUNDING

€1.3m from the European Union’s Peace IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body, the Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development in Ireland

BACKGROUND

Northern Ireland remains a polarised society: 90 per cent of social housing residents live in single identity communities and 93 per cent of children attend segregated schooling. Increasing ethnic diversity has presented new challenges for social integration, cohesion and good community relations. A similar situation persists in the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, and recently both places have also experienced a heightened sense of division and insecurity arising from Brexit.

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