The Open Doors Learning Centre is an alternative education project, which works with those young people not attending mainstream education. The centre was established in 1998 to meet the needs of young people at greatest risk of social exclusion, experiencing difficulties with education, self-awareness and social and personal development.

The young people are aged between 14-16 years old, and are and drawn on a co-education and cross community basis. Open Doors delivers a range of academic, vocational and creative qualifications and programmes to enable young people to progress into further education, training and employment.

OPEN DOORS MISSION STATEMENT.
The Open Doors Learning Centre will work to provide a safe, caring and vibrant learning environment dedicated to enriching the lives of the young especially those at greatest risk of social exclusion — by offering learning and personal development opportunities. We aim to encourage young people to be confident, thoughtful, articulate and interested in their own, and their community’s, social, emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual development. We aim to work in a capacity that will meet holistically the needs of all young people who come to the centre, and provide a space wherein all our staff and young people can transcend differences of ability, sex, religious affiliation, social or ethnic background or political persuasion.

For further information contact:

The Open Doors Learning Centre
8-30 Barrack Street
Belfast BT12 4AH

T: 028 9032 5867
F: 028 9032 5867
E: opendoorsbelfast@yahoo.co.uk