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The Learning Digest - Issue 3 -
June 2003 -
The Wheel
Welcome to the third issue of The Learning Digest. This dedicated education and training related digest is collated for those working in, and for the Community and Voluntary Sector. Emailed every two months, the aim is to provide introductory information with links to where you can find further information. Please let us know of any events or news happening in your area. Email: info@wheel.ie
CONTENTS:
1. NEWS AND OVERVIEWS
2. EVENTS
3. PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
4. FUNDING
5. COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
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1. NEWS AND OVERVIEWS:
Community Education Facilitator's (CEF's) The publication of the White
Paper on Adult Education, Learning for Life gave a new recognition to
Community Education in Ireland. Just about now, thirty-five Community
Education Facilitator's (CEF's) are stepping into their posts all
around the country? To read more, click
here
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CEO/Manager Network
Are you currently working as a CEO or Director of a voluntary organisation?
Are you responsible for managing or co-ordinating a community project?
Are you interested in exploring the development or a support networkwith
your peers? If so, then join the CEO/Manager Network for free. The first
network meeting took place on May 27th with 26 CEO / Managers in attendance.The
outcome was the establishment of a steering group to develop a programme
of seminars and networking / peer-to-peer support opportunities. If you
are interested in joining the network or being part of the steering group
during this exciting start up phase, contact Jennie O'Reilly at The Wheel
(01-4548727 or email Jennie@wheel.ie)
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Irish Network for Development Education eXchange - INDEX
INDEX is a new space for information sharing about development
education, and is the successor to the NODE newsletter and contacts list.
It is produced by Comhlámh to serve the development education sector
throughout Ireland.
For further information on The INDEX Newsletter, The INDEX Contacts List
or The INDEX Website please contact index@comhlamh.org or Ken or Morína
on 01 478 4390.
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Educational Disadvantage Committee
> > The Educational Disadvantage Committee was established by the
Minister for Education and Science in March 2002 under Section 32 of the
Education Act, 1998. Its purpose is to advise the Minister on policies
and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage?
Click here for the full article www.wheel.ie/user/content/view/devel/415/
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The Department of Education and Science
An overview of Further Education and Training is available from The Department
of Education and Science at www.education.ie under the "Learners
and Trainers section".
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Profile of the Social Inclusion Unit in the Department of Education and
> > Science The establishment of the Social Inclusion Unit in the
Department of Education & Science in late 1998 reflected the increasing
emphasis on social inclusion issues at a national and European level,
and the growing need to develop a more integrated and co-ordinated approach
to the development of policy and the management and delivery of schemes
aimed at promoting social inclusion and tackling educational disadvantage.
Click here to read full article http://www.wheel.ie/user/content/view/devel/421/
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Communicating Using Information Technology
Online 'egroups' or discussion boards can offer an alternative to meetings
and bring you together with people and organisations similar to yourself.
Here is one example of such an initiative that may be of interest to you
or you may try and replicate for your area of interest.
"Would you like to be able to keep in touch with other organisations
operating similar helpline services to yourself? The Telephone Helplines
Association has recently set up an egroup through Yahoo that will allow
organisations throughout Ireland to keep in touch with each other. For
more information please check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/helplinesireland/
This is a totally free service. For more information on using the service,
contact Graeme on 048 9035 7852."
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CV12 Website
In July 2001, The Irish Government set up an Implementation and Advisory
Group (IAG) to advise and implement action on issues arising from the
White Paper 'On a Framework for Supporting Voluntary Activity. The IAG
is comprised of six community and voluntary sector members and six statutory
sector members. The six community and voluntary members each have designated
alternates. These twelve community and voluntary members and their alternates
are known as the Community or Vountary Sector Twelve or The CV12 Group.
The CV12 have developed a website as a means of communicating with the
wider Community and Voluntary Sector. For further information, visit www.cv12.info
or email the CV12 at info@cv12.info
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Promoting Volunteering
Volunteering Ireland have just embarked on a new project to promote volunteering
for groups that are traditionally underrepresented or may require a degree
of support to pursue and sustain voluntary work. Such groups may include
people with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, mental illness,
travellers, long-term unemployed and asylum seekers. The project aims
to develop four pilot projects and to publish a resource/training pack
for both volunteers and volunteer-using organisations. If you are interested
in volunteering, or are a volunteer involving organisation who would like
to, or have experience of, involving volunteers from underrepresented
groups please contact Fiona Baily on 01- 8722622 or email: fiona@volunteeringireland.com
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Why Does No-one Love NAPS?
Imagine if there was a plan to end poverty in Ireland, to tackle educational
disadvantage and to challenge health and equalities once and for all.
Imagine if our Government had signed up, and committed themselves to delivering
on that plan. Imagine what our schools might look like if we were embarked
on such a great national crusade. Oddly enough such a plan does exist,
it is called The National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), although it's
fair to say that it's not widely known within the educational community.
Click here to read the full article http://www.wheel.ie/user/content/view/devel/419/
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Towards A Process Of Educational Upskilling Of Young Adults In Work
This pilot initiative which targets young adults (17+) who left school
before completion and are now in employment aims to upgrade skills, enhance
career prospects and promote educational progression of the target group.
The model being used is very much a partnership one with employers, local
partnership companies, education providers and the key funding agencies
working together in an integrated fashion under the auspices of the Dublin
Employment Pact (DEP). Click here to read full article http://www.wheel.ie/user/content/view/devel/420/
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Do You Attend Meetings? Have We Got A Survey For You...!
Team Training Ireland are conducting a study on the frequency and effectiveness
of meetings in the private, community & voluntary, public and media
sectors in Ireland.
Their aim is to obtain tangible evidence about current meeting practices
in relation to the: - time spent in meetings and it's value;
- the key issues in relation to effective meeting practice, and;
- the identification of Best Practice to determine what is and is not
effective.
The survey is brief - 2 pages - and refers to your meeting experience
over the last 4 weeks. The results of this study will assist with identifying
good practice and areas that could enable more effective meeting practices
across all sectors.
If you or anyone you know would like to complete this, please ring Nora
Stewart on 01 283 9761 or send an email to nora@teamtrainingireland.com
and we can either email or post it out to you.
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2. EVENTS:
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Combat Poverty Consultation seminar on Indicators of Social Inclusion
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June 10th
The Government is preparing the Irish National Action Plan against
Poverty and Social Exclusion, as part of the EU social inclusion process.
An important element of the Plan is the application of social indicators
to measure progress in tackling poverty at national and European levels.
As part of the consultation process for the Irish Plan, a seminar on social
indicators is being organised for June 10th next to inform and consult
with relevant stakeholders on the monitoring of poverty and policy in
Ireland. This includes people living in poverty, statutory and voluntary
service providers at local, regional and national levels, the social partners
and specialist data and research interests.
As there is a limit of 50 places booking is essential. For further information,
please email research@cpa.ie or phone Grace on (01) 670 6746
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Rights into Action 2003 - 1st International Congress of Young Disabled
People 30th June - 4th July
The International Congress of Young Disabled People will bring together
people from all over the World. It is unique in many ways including the
fact that young disabled people have been involved in its construction
from the outset. The emphasis during the Congress will be on delegates
participating to arrive at issues, both commonalities and differences,
which affect their lives with a view to their voices directly influencing
decision makers.
For further information, please contact Catherine Lewis at Children in
Wales Ph: 029 20342434 or Email: catherine.lewis@childreninwales.org.uk
: http://www.childreninwales.org.uk
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3. PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
Glossary of Abbreviations
Ever wonder what NAPS, ABE, IAG, CDP stand for? Check out The Wheel's
comprehensive list of frequently used abbreviations at http://www.wheel.ie/user/content/view/news/418/.
If we've missed something, drop us an email to learning@wheel.ie.
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Initial Findings of Research into the Participation of Students with Disabilities
in the Further Education Sector. Ahead, Newman House, 86 St Stephen?s
Green, Dublin 2, 2003
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Learning to make do won't do? A survey on educational disadvantage. Society
of St. Vincent de Paul.
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Developing Youth Work with Young Refugees.
Youth Action against Racism and Discrimination (YARD) has published (March
2003) a report entitled "Steps Towards Inclusion: Developing Youth
Work with Separated Children". Separated children, also known as
unaccompanied minors, are young people seeking asylum in Ireland without
the care of a parent or guardian. The report outlines the contribution,
which youth organisations can make to their integration into life in Ireland.
If you would like to receive a copy of this report, please contact Niamh
McCrea at 01 - 4784122 or yard@nyci.ie Over the coming year, YARD will
endeavour to support youth organisations to implement some of the recommendations
arising from the research. If you feel your organisation could play a
role in welcoming separated children, please contact YARD.
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A Whole New World - a feminist model of community and lifelong learning.
Women's Education Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) UCD
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Asylum Seekers in Adult Education ? a study of language and literacy needs.
City of Dublin VEC, County Dublin VEC. Published in Dec 02
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Achieving Equality in Children's Education
Research Report by Dr. Katherine E. Zappone, also a video to accompany
the research entitled: Messages From the Children, and an Action Plan
and Proceeding of the National Forum for Ending Disadvantage at Primary
Level. The above are available free of charge from: The Educational Disadvantage
Centre, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, D 9 Tel: 01- 8842021 or email:
edc@spd.dcu.ie
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Impact of ICT on Volunteer Management (Canadian Research).
The Impact of Information and Communications Technology on Volunteer Management
is based on a questionnaire survey of 494 managers of volunteer resources.
It studied four areas of interest: how much and what kind of ICT is used
by managers of volunteer resources; the factors associated with patterns
of ICT use; overall satisfaction with ICT use; and, the top-rated improvements
in ICT use that volunteer managers would like to make in their organisations.
The study and other reports are available on-line at:
www.nonprofitscan.ca/report.asp?section=recently
For more information about the research program, go to:
www.nonprofitscan.ca/report.asp?section=progress
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4. FUNDING
Comhairle / CAFÉ
The information is relevant mainly to organisations within the Republic
of Ireland, although there is also information on some Northern Ireland
funding sources. They are working on an updated funding section / handbook
to be ready over the next few months. www.cidb.ie/comhairleVCS.nsf/HTMLPages/Funding?Opendocument
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Grants Scheme for information initiatives for people with disabilities.
Comhairle invites applications from voluntary and community organisations
for grant support for innovative partnership projects. Special consideration
will be given to projects involving partnership between organisations
in the disability sector, information providers and mainstream service
providers. To download an application form, click here www.activelink.ie/dwl/InfoGrantsForm_A03.doc
The closing date for applications is Thursday 5th June 2003. Contact Comhairle,
7th Floor, Hume House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Tel: 01 - 605 9000. Fax:
01 - 605 9099. E-mail: grants@comhairle.ie
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Development Education: Grants Scheme for 2003
The Government's official development assistance programme, Ireland Aid,
supports the promotion of education and awareness of development issues.
Ireland Aid now invites applications from voluntary organisations and
educational bodies for development education projects, including research,
which are designed to increase awareness and understanding of development
issues. Closing Date for Applications is 5pm, Friday 27th June 2003
For further information on grant types and application guidelines please
consult the website below and/or contact: Development Education Unit,
Ireland Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Bishop's Square, Redmond's
Hill, Dublin 2. Tel: 01- 4789456 E-Mail: mailto:info@ncde.ie Website:
http://www.ncde.ie
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Update on White Paper Funding
- Grants for Training and Supports. The funding available for the Training
and Support services grant scheme in 2003 has been reduced from 2.54 million
to 600,000 euro. The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
invited proposals from consultants on 6 February 2003 for assessment of
the 540 applications received under the scheme of grants for Training
and Supports in the Community and Voluntary Sector. Consultants were appointed
and began the assessment process in April 2003. It is expected that this
assessment will be completed by the end of June. All applicants will be
advised of the outcome of their application shortly thereafter.
- The funding available to the Network and Federations grant scheme
in 2003 has been reduced from 2.54 million to 1,827,000 euro. The allocation
of grants is expected in August 2003, actual payment of cheques expected
in October 2003.
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5. COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
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Fundraising
- Organising Profitable Fundraising Events - Thursday 5th June
- Effective Community Fundraising - Friday 6th June
Both workshops held in Camden Court Hotel, 1 Upper Camden Street, Dublin2.Click
here to download application forms www.activelink.ie/dwl/tp_dublin.doc
For more information please contact: Training People, 267 Lisburn Enterprise
> > Centre, Ballinderry Rd, Lisburn, N I BT28 2BP Tel: 0044 28 9266
5127 E mail: trainingpeople@dnet.co.uk
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Summer School on Minority & Indigenous Peoples? Rights - 5th - 9th
June at The Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway
The Summer School includes modules on: Definition & the Human Rights
Committee; Instruments, Issues & Cases; Racial Discrimination and
African Experiences of Minority Rights. For further information contact
the Irish Centre for Human Rights at humanrights@nuigalway.ie
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Training For Trainers - Friday 6th and Saturday 7th June (10.00 -
5.00pm)
If you are an Addiction Counsellor, Education Officer, Community Development
Worker, Project Worker, etc., with some experience in the area of addiction
and facilitation this two-day workshop may interest you. The content of
the course includes: Process of Addiction, Facilitation Skills, Wheel
of Change, and Planning and Delivery of Sessions. Venue: URRUS - Ireland's
Community Addiction Studies Training Centre from Cost: Euro 100.00. For
Information and Booking Details contact: Tel. 01 - 842 5726 or Email:
urrus@iol.ie
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Demystifying the Treasurers Role - 7 June
If you would like any information about this course or future training
events, please call Emily O'Neill from Carmichael Centre - Training and
Support Service on 01 - 873 5282 Fax: 01 - 873 5283 or email: tdocarmichaelcentre@eircom.net
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Workshop for Adult Educators - 11 June - DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin 2.
Considering the theories & writings that guide our work: A hermeneutical
reflection on adult education?. This workshop with Dr. Michael Cowan of
Loyola University, New Orleans will provide a practical conceptual framework
that allows adult education practitioners to reflect on how they apply
theory. The perspective of hermeneutics (or interpretation theory) offers
practitioners across all professions a focused means of reflecting on
the assumptions that make possible and limit their interpretations and,
therefore, their actions in professional practice. For further information,
contact Tommy Byrne, PRO, NALA (01) 809 9195 W: www.nala.ie
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Workplace Basic Education seminar - June 13th (11am - 1.30pm) - Davenport
Hotel, Dublin
Staff motivation, productivity and ultimately competitiveness can be undermined
if staff have low levels of literacy. A seminar to examine how employers
can establish and benefit from Workplace Basic Education (WBE) will take
place in early June. Titled 'Closing the gap' this event will be addressed
by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and a number of UK and Irish experts from
business. The cost to attend the seminar is 25euro for community and voluntary
organisations. For further information contact Helen Ryan at NALA by phone
01-855 4332 or by email literacy@nala.ie
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Facilitation Skills
- One Day Course in Foundation Facilitation Skills - June 14, 28 (10am
- 5 pm)
- Two Day Course in Advanced Facilitation Skills - June 14+15, 28+29 (10am
- 5 pm)
For further information, please contact Rosemary Cadwell at 01 - 671 9803
or info@meitheal.ie
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Support and Supervision Skills Training - 24 June
The Telephone Helplines Association (THA) is running a new course in Dublin
called Support and Supervision for Helpline workers. The course considers
all the issues around using support and supervision for both paid and
volunteers staff on helplines. For more information contact our training
unit on 048 9035 7850 or to book email graeme.caul@helplines.org.uk and
ask for a booking form to be forwarded to you.
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Sponsorshop Seeking Seminar for the Arts - 4 July
Business2Arts provide training and services strictly for the arts ie theatres,
gallery, community outreach programmes. They still have places left on
their Sponsorship seeking seminar. If you would like any further information
please contact them on 01-6725336
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The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) have chosen the theme of "Literacy
and law / justice" for their September National Literacy Awareness
Week (NLAW) campaign later this year. Over the years there has been much
anecdotal evidence to show that low levels of literacy are a barrier to
the law / justice system. Recently various organisations in the law and
justice area have approached NALA with a view to making their text-based
materials (reports, brochures, signs, forms etc.) easier to understand.
For more information about the Literacy & law / justice conference
contact NALA by phone 01-855 4332 or by email literacy@nala.ie
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Community Care Practice / Disability - September
The course, starting in September is a full time training programme -
duration 11 months. It provides people with an accredited training and
development programme in Disability Studies. For more information please
contact Annette Carroll at email: fassmh@eircom.net
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Host a European Trainee in Your Office!
Could you use an extra pair of hands in your organisation? Someone with
language skills? Help on a project for a few months? If so, you can place
a Job Offer on http://www.internationalplacement.org or browse the Student
Profiles to view candidates interested in working in your company. You
can offer a work placement to a student for a minimum of 3 months and
a maximum of 12 months. The student will receive a Leonardo Da Vinci Grant
for travel and a subsistence allowance to complete a placement in Ireland.
For more information, please contact (HLP) Hibernia Learning Partnership
- tel (01) 885 1340 email info@hlp.ie or directly place a job offer on
www.internationalplacement.org. Hibernia Learning Partnership, Innovation
& Learning Centre, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Blanchardstown
Road North, Dublin 15.
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Volunteering Ireland Courses
- Supporting Volunteers - 17 September (Galway)
- MASTER CLASS on The Key to Retaining Volunteers - 22 October (Dublin)
- MASTER CLASS on Designing Volunteer Roles for Results - 23 October (Dublin)
- Volunteers on Management Committees - 8 November (Dublin) Volunteering
Ireland can also offer tailor-made training courses for
your organisation on a particular aspect of volunteering. For further
information, contact Anne-Marie Bourquin at anne-marie@volunteeringireland.com
Ph: (01) 8722622
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Subscribe to ETEN
ETEN is Educate Together's Email Newsletter. It is published
occasionally and covers news about development in the Educate Together
sector of Education. Educate Together is the national representative organisation
for inclusive, multi-denominational education in Ireland. Information
on the sector or subscribe to ETEN, please visit: www.educatetogether.ie
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Anti Racism Training Please contact - Comhlámh, 10 Upper Camden
Street, Dublin 8. Tel: 01-4783490 Fax: 01-4783738 Email: bernadette@comhlamh.org
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Educating young people: training modules.
Yield has recently produced training modules for those who are involved
in educating young people. These modules are aimed at young people 12
- 18 years. All the modules provide comprehensive programmes as well as
handouts. These are available for purchase: 55.00 euros for each module
printed or 175.00 euros for all 6 modules on CD Rom (in word format).
Topics covered are Puberty & Reproduction; Values & Sexuality;
Self Esteem; Sexual Identity; Relationships Communication & Decision
Making; Contraception & Safer Sex and STI's & HIV. For more information
please email yield@eircom.net or phone or Tim Bingham on 086 3893530 www.yieldireland.com
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Local Development Training Institute of Ireland (LDTI) Summer School The
Local Development Training Institute of Ireland (LDTI) provides relevant
workshop training for individuals and groups involved in local development.
This year, the LDTI Summer School, hosted by UCD will take place from
the 16th to the 20th June inclusive. It includes workshops in the following
areas: Skills Development, Community Development Approaches, Organisation
development, Publicity, Equality, Social Economy Enterprises and Stress
Management.
For further information please contact LDTI at Tel. (01) 2300640 or E-mail:
info@ldti.ie You can download the Summer School Prospectus from their
website at www.ldti.ie
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Barnardos - Training Events
- Developing Policies and Procedures for a Childcare Setting - 4 June
(Cork)
- Working with Children with Special Needs - 6 June (Galway) Contact Martina
Dumpleton Tel: (01)4530355 Ext 213 or Email: martina.dumpleton@barnardos.ie
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The National Training and Development Institute (NTDI)
NTDI is Ireland's largest non-Government training organisation. The majority
of the student body is made up of people with disabilities, although other
groups and individuals facing obstacles in the search for work are increasingly
using its services. For further information contact 01-2057200 or Email:
dara.duffy@rehab.ie
Web: http://www.rehab.ie/ntdi/
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Travellers Youth Service
Travellers Youth Service provides information and resources to run your
own anti-racism programmes. They also run anti-racism workshops! Visit
their website www.exchangehouse.ie
where you can view and print out an activity pack and run anti-racism
games and workshops yourself.
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Courses from The Irish Hospice Foundation:
- Loss And Older People - Thursday, 19th And Friday, 20th June
- Spirituality In Loss And Bereavement - Thursday, 10th July
- Dreams - A Portal To The Source - Friday, 11th July
- Schools And Loss - Friday, 25th July (This workshop will look at different
forms of loss and how loss impacts on the lives of children at different
ages. It will examine how school can be a support to these children.)
For booking forms and further information contact Iris Murray on 016793188
or via email iris@hospice-foundation.ie
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National College of Ireland (NCI) provides customised training for community
and voluntary groups in addition to its current portfolio of programmes
which includes:
- NCI Certificate in Participatory Community Research
- NCI Certificate in Committee Effectiveness Skills
- NCI Certificate in Managing Organisations in the Voluntary and Community
Sector
- NCI Certificate in Active Citizenship & Local Development
- NCI Foundation Certificate in Community Development
- Parents in Education
- Discovering University
- Educational Mentoring
- Return-to-learn and Return-to-work programmes
For further information on either customised training or any of the programmes
above please contact: Michele Ryan at NCI on (01) 406 0544, email mryan@ncirl.ie
or web: www.ncirl.ie
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Nightcourses.com - www.nightcourses.com
Daycourses.com - www.daycourses.com
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Activelink A list of various training courses and workshops of interest
to the community and voluntary sector is available from the activelink
website at
www.activelink.ie/ce/active_section.php?id=2
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Disclaimer: As the information in this digest has been provided and collated
from numerous sources, The Wheel does not take responsibility for any
opinions expressed. As the purpose of the digest is to provide information,
The Wheel does not endorse any of the events listed.
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