America Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) has partnered with the Ministry of Youth and Sports activities (MOYS), and the College of the West Indies Heart for Prison Justice and Safety (UWI CCJS) to supply specialised challenge administration coaching for presidency officers.
Twenty-one social service suppliers from the assorted authorities ministries celebrated the profitable completion of the eight-week digital coaching course in challenge administration, on August 29. The coaching, facilitated with assist from USAID’s Youth Resilience, Inclusion, and Empowerment (Y-RIE) Program, was designed to strengthen the capability of public sector professionals to handle and implement growth initiatives successfully.
The specialised curriculum centered on addressing the challenges which social service suppliers face of their roles, and offered sensible options, significantly these aimed toward empowering Grenada’s youth. As a part of their continued skilled growth, graduates will interact in a practicum part that entails group outreach in Y-RIE’s focus communities. This sensible expertise will emphasize selling optimistic masculinity and offering psychological first help to mitigate threat components affecting youth and stopping youth and group violence.
On the closing ceremony, held at Prickly Bay Marina, Lyndonna Hillaire-Marshall, Appearing Cupboard Secretary and Everlasting Secretary answerable for Public Administration within the Prime Minister’s Workplace, highlighted the significance of the graduates making use of their newfound expertise to the betterment of Grenadian youth. The PS urged graduates to use their newfound expertise to the initiatives they develop and the work they do, all the time conscious of the essence of their efforts, the rewards—typically intrinsic—and their influence on the lives of the youth and communities they serve. MOYS Everlasting Secretary, Odessa Amada-Sylvester expressed her pleasure on the Ministry’s partnership with the USAID Y-RIE Program for this vital coaching course. She urged employees who benefited to make use of their expertise in growing initiatives and applications that assist the Ministry with its mandate to assist the youth of Grenada reside optimistic lives.
Johnny Calliste, USAID Y-RIE Program Supervisor, shared that capacity-building of youth-serving stakeholders is a key facet of Y-RIE’s strategic goal to “strengthen government-provided social providers.”
Professor Corin Bailey, Director of UWI CCJS, emphasised the pivotal function these newly educated professionals will play in shaping Grenada’s future in his digital congratulatory message.
MOYS Undertaking Officer, Natasha Simon-Charles, talking on behalf of the coaching members expressed gratitude on behalf of her fellow members. She mirrored on the transformative impact of the coaching emphasizing that they are going to use their new expertise to design efficient actions to assist the at-risk youth in Grenada.
USAID Y-RIE was formally launched in Grenada in March 2023. Y-RIE is working with authorities and non-government companions to strengthen social providers that serve youth and their households, enhance studying outcomes for youth, enhance youth preparedness for the world-of-work, and strengthen the resilience of households and communities.
