Three months into the closure of schools and a lock down for residents at the Homes, we are now ready to slowly start releasing certain restrictions, taking great care to continue safeguarding the safety of the residents and staff. As challenging as this period was, it served to be a time of reflection and creativity. Residents created artistic projects, spent time baking and cooking, as wel...

Building Bridges, an Erasmus+ funded training course, saw the coming together of 40 keen youth workers, social workers, care workers and counsellors, all ready to learn and share knowledge, with the ultimate aim of improving the quality of the relationships with the young people they work with. For another year, British psychologists Mr Colin Newton and Mr Derek Wilson from Inclusive Solution...

Focus Your Vision! was a 12-day youth exchange held in Haarlem, Netherlands, in which seven young people from the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja Homes participated in.  The main themes explored during the youth exchange were upcycling and creativity. The 32 young people who came together from Malta, Netherlands, Italy and Latvia actively participated in discussing and exploring important issues,...

Two care workers from the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja took part in a training course held in the Netherlands.  This was the first project of the sort which was opened to care workers, and was indeed a great success.  The activities held during the course were replicated with the residents from the Homes and were indeed a great success. This presentation in the below link was prepared by, Fran...

FABRIC: Fresh Approaches to Behaviour and Relationships when working with young people with Challenging Behaviour. Training Course: 21 – 27 January 2018, Malta The end of January saw 20 enthusiastic people from the UK, Latvia and Romania meet another 20 Maltese participants in Rabat, Malta for a training course entitled FABRIC.  This Erasmus+ project sought to provide participants with the tools...

Live Right, Be Bright was an Erasmus+ funded youth exchange held in July 2017 for over 30 young people from four European Countries – Malta, Sardinia, Denmark and The Netherlands. The exchange was organised by Empowering Youth in Care, a Maltese organisation that works with adolescent females who live in residential care, in collaboration with Malik Organisation based in Sardinia.  All the youn...

Empowering Youth in Care, the youth organisation working from within Conservatorio Vincenzo Bugeja, was awarded with funds from Erasmus+ to coordinate a youth exchange project to be held in Sardinia. In July 2017, eight residents from the Homes will be joining 35 other young people from Sardinia, Denmark and the Netherlands for a Youth Exchange in the town of Abbasanta. The main themes of th...

A training course funded by Erasmus+ was held at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Tal-Virtu, Rabat between the 17th and 23rd October 2016, with three days of the training held by Colin Wilson and Derek Newton, British psychologists who facilitated sessions on Person Centred Planning.  The aim of this training course was to address the needs of the young people in our care to help them be the centre of...

For a while, we have been in contact with MEUSAC who are assisting us with writing an application for a youth exchange project for summer 2017. One of the objectives of such projects is that the young people are involved in the whole process of the project, including the planning phase. The meeting served as a platform for some of the residents of the Homes to brainstorm ideas for a theme for a...

Some residents where selected to take part in a three-day activity in Gozo, where several skills where put into practice. The participants where given a budget and were allowed to plan the whole three days themselves as long as they keep to that budget.  This required that the whole group works as a team to make plans that suit everyone. Some of the activities which the residents planned whe...