About Us
Include Youth is an independent organisation that actively promotes the rights, best interests of and best practice with young people in need or at risk.
The organisation was established in May 1979 as the NI Intermediate Treatment Association (NIITA) in anticipation of the publication of the Report of the Children and Young Persons Review group, the "Black Report". NIITA changed its name to Include Youth in 1998. The organisation (both then and now) advocates for the introduction of policies and services for children and young people which would reduce the need for care and custody.
The young people that Include Youth works with and for include those from socially disadvantaged areas, those with special needs, those who have had poor educational experiences, those from a care background, young people who have committed or are at risk of committing crime, misusing drugs or alcohol, undertaking unsafe sexual behaviour or other harmful activities or of being harmed themselves.
Include Youth achieves its objectives through policy advocacy that both informs and is informed by our direct practitioner and young people support services.