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New Website Launched - 30/11/2004
On the 10th anniversary of the opening of St.Columb's Park House, the new website was launched to provide information about the conference, activity and reconciliation centre facilities. The new website allows the centre to to target a wider audience and it will now appear on all the marketing material.

Website Updated - 5/11/2008
Around the 14th anniversary of the opening of St. Columb's Park House, and around the 4th anniversary of the birth the website, the site was updated by Andrew VanBuren. Suggestions and comments are welcome! Please send them to Andrew VanBuren.

Programme Updates - 11/2008
The Impetus Human Rights Award Scheme for had its annual showcase at the Playhouse in Derry/Londonderry on Friday, 26th of September, 2008. Many groups of young people presented their projects that were aimed to improve human rights in some manner, whether on a local or an international level. Thank you to all who presented and to all who attended and helped out with the showcase!

Two conferences were held in August and October of 2008 under the Political Youth Wings programme. The conferences focused on mental health, particularly among young people, in Ireland and the UK. Young politicians from all over Northern Ireland met in a cross-party setting to visit HURT, a drug and alcohol help centre in Derry/Londonderry, and L.A.T.C.H., a youth mental health organization in Dungiven. The delegates then sat down and discussed a course of action for dealing with the relatively small amount of funding allotted for mental health centres. The group formed the Youth Mental Health Strategy; they can be reached at ymhs08@hotmail.com.