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NWCN E-Bulletin 13 March 2008 |
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working to create a genuinely participative democracy |
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This is a training programme targeted at staff who, whilst they may not primarily work with Child Protection, have significant contribution to make in this area. This one-day workshop examines the following: - Nature and extent of child abuse locally - What constitutes Significant harm - Impact on victims - Characteristics of perpetrators - Managing disclosure - The process of investigation - Family support services This course has been developed using, where appropriate, local material to ensure its relevance to voluntary and community staff needs. It would be most helpful if you could book as far as possible in advance.
Fuller details available on request. DATE: Wednesday 19th March VENUE: Old Library Trust, Central Drive Derry/Londonderry Commencing: 9:30am sharp FACILITATOR: Mark Mc Chrystal - CONTACT: Stephanie@ 71377940 / cdli@btconnect.com
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Living Well with Cancer Conference
For patients, carers and health care professionals. Saturday 26th April, 9.40am-3.45pm, Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast. A one-day conference to provide information and support for all those affected by cancer. The conference is free of charge to patients and carers and 15 for health care professionals. Please register for this event by Wednesday 16th April as places are limited. For further information contact T: 028 9066 3281 or visit www.ulstercancer.org.
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Free Complementary Therapies Advice and Training Event. 10am-2pm on Friday 14th March, Grosvenor House, Belfast. PRIME, the support organisation for self employment and TRACKSARS.BIZ, training and staffing specialists, are hosting an event with a particular focus on complementary therapies. Specialists will provide advice and demonstrations to relax the mind and body while exploring your choices. Contact T: 028 9026 7807 or E: roisin.bradley@ACE.org.uk.
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A Two-Day Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Workshop
Understanding and Improving Our Helping Conversations, A Two-Day Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Workshop.OiWillo Training Co. Ltd. is delighted to again facilitate this very successful Motivational Interviewing training workshop in the Millennium Centre, 400 Springfield Road, Belfast on Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008. This initial two day practice development workshop, led by Glenn Hinds, a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), is an introduction to the clinical method of motivational interviewing. It is designed to help practitioners get started in developing their competence in MI. It will be of particular interest to practitioners who are offering support to individuals and families who are experiencing difficulties engaging in traditional service structures or those assisting people who wish to change their smoking, alcohol or drug use, diet, exercise routine, criminal behaviour, medication maintenance or any other health or life style behaviour. For further information see attachment or to apply on-line visit Motivational Interviewing Workshops.
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The Community Development & Health Network was commissioned in Autumn 07 by the Department for Health to develop a Guide to Engagement for Commissioners under the new RPA commissioning structures. Now nearing completion and due for release in April 09, the toolkit has been prepared in order to provide guidance for commissioners on how to ensure that users, carers and communities get fully involved in the new devolved commissioning processes. The aim is to make sure that the engagement process is built on real partnerships, where users, carers and communities begin to have ‘citizen control’. The toolkit, which will be supplemented by a CDRom resource, identifies a wide range of existing good practice around genuine user engagement and very much emphasises the opportunity for individuals and groups to become “co-designers, co-planners and co-providers of services”. It will become a useful reference document for both community and public sectors so that the full engagement potential, and responsibilities, of the new structures can be realised.
View the draft version of the toolkit and answer the questionnaire by visiting: www.cdhn.org/toolkit/cdhntoolkit.pdf Please return questionnaire via email to barbarycook@cdhn.org or fax to 02830264626
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Queens University is working on a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into the skills needed by people and organisations involved in creating sustainable communities in Northern Ireland.
The idea of Sustainable Communities has been around for some time although the new Academy for Sustainable Communities has more recently highlighted the need to see the connection between social, economic and environmental factors that make up vital and viable places.
This short survey attempts to get a wider view of where the skills strengths and gaps are and in particular, how they need to be deepened and developed in the context of segregation between communities in Northern Ireland.
Please click on the link below or paste it into your web bar and work your way through the survey. It is short and easy to complete and should take less than 10 minutes to fill in.
We would appreciate it if you would pass this e-mail on to the most appropriate person to complete the questionnaire and as many people can do the survey as you wish. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us and thank you for taking the time to consider this request.
NOW CLICK ON THE LINK: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4_2fZpeTNPz6Xq33ZVu6PtDw_3d_3d
For Further Information, Contact: Brendan Murtagh, b.murtagh@qub.ac.uk Geraint Ellis, g.ellis@qub.ac.uk School of Planning Architecture and Civil Engineering Queens University Belfast, BT9 5AG Tel 02890 974742 Fax 02890 687652 |
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Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages Seminar Quintessential Migrants? Irish Travellers: Some Representations
The Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages is pleased to announce a seminar by Dr. Mchel O hAodha on Wednesday April 16th at 10:30 am at Aberfoyle House, Magee Campus in Derry entitled: Quintessential Migrants? Irish Travellers: Some Representations
Dr O hAodha is a Lecturer at the University of Limerick where he lectures on a number of English, History, Politics and Social Studies courses incorporating Traveller, Roma and Migration Studies. He has published over twenty books about the socio-cultural history and development of a number of different (traditionally nomadic) groups within the Irish Traveller community. Recent publications by him include: Irish Travellers: Representations and Realities, The Liffey Press {2006} O hAodha closely examines how images of Travellers have been created and distorted over the centuries, from the nineteenth-century "gipsilorists" to late-twentieth-century anthropological studies. In particular, he focuses on the 1952 "Tinker Questionnaire", conducted by the Irish Folklore Commission, which remains the most comprehensive account to date of "settled" Irish people's attitudes to Travellers. Parley with Me : A Compendium of Fairground Speech .Showpeople have their own distinctive language, known as Parley. It vividly reflects their nomadic lifestyle, and the influences of Showpeople from other countries and cultures, with words derived from Italian, Romani, Yiddish, Cockney rhyming slang, non-standard English, Gaeilge and Irish Traveller Cant or Gammon. Parley with Me introduces Parley to a wider audience, listing over 400 words, with their English and Gaeilge equivalents
The Stranger in Ourselves :Ireland's Others, with David O'Donnell, and Colm Power , A collection of essays by and about the perennial "other" in Irish society -- the Travellers and the Roma., For more information please contact Andrea Redmond, Tel: (0)28 71375474, or 07842298150, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages,
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'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland CAIN Seminar Series 2007-2008 'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland. In association with the above project CAIN is pleased to announce details of the fifth Seminar in its 2007-2008 Series. The fifth seminar will take place on Thursday 13 March 2008, 12:00-13:00 followed by light lunch: Ms Roberta Bacic - 'Sewing Memories Through Quilt Making: An International Perspective'
Venue: Room MI022, Aberfoyle House, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Derry/Londonderry. Please note that the seminars are free of charge. To facilitate our planning, please let us know if you will attend: Contact : Email: je.farren@ulster.ac.uk or Telephone: 028 7137 5575 |
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Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) Conference
Invitation to A Shared future of Race Relations: From Europe to Northern Ireland Conference on European Integration Policy and Practice
The Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities on European Integration Policy and Practice is hosting a conference on A Shared future of Race Relations: From Europe to Northern Ireland Conference on European Integration Policy and Practice. This is a 2 day event that will be held on the 8th and 9th May 2008 at the Wellington Park Hotel in Belfast.
The conference marks the close of a year long Province wide project entitled A Shared Future of Race Relations: From Europe to Northern Ireland. Through a training programme and a series of events the project has informed and shaped how Northern Ireland has adapted to its changing demographics. At the heart of the project has been the development of strategies on integration and good race relations that promote equality and respect diversity. On the basis of local expertise and training tools developed at the European level, the project has enabled the development of networks of cooperation across all communities in Northern Ireland.
This conference will specifically bring a variety of expertise and experience on European and local Integration policy and practice from a diverse variety of sources, including European agencies and local government as well as grassroots organisations in order to present and discuss different models and methods and share in examples of good and bad practice. Contact Chris McAfee for registration forms and further programme detail at NICEM, 3rd Floor Ascot House, 24-31 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB Tel: 028 9023 8645 Fax: 028 9031 9485 Email: chrism.nicem@btconnect.com
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International Womens Day Activity - Learning Easter Craft Techniques
Information Morning: Learning Easter Craft Techniques Date: Wednesday 19th March 2008 Time: 10am 12 noon Followed by lunch Venue: The Junction Bishop Street Opposite Pound stretchers) Activities: Easter Card Making Easter Flower Arranging Easter Egg Decoration Easter Bonnet Competition Childcare / Carer expenses are available. Come along and meet up with women from other communities to find out what is happening over Easter and with the new term beginning it is a way to advertise and get support for your courses and events. Book your places with Catherine or Mary at the Foyle Womens Information Network on 02871 266291.
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NICVA Members Day - Running your organisation effectively
As a direct response to your requests for practical information and advice, NICVA has organised another Members Information Day on 29 April 2008 from 10.00am to 4.15pm. This time round participants will gain confidence in the areas of governance that every organisation, large or small, should be thinking about.
The day begins with Whats on the horizon?, a presentation on the changes in charity law and other policy updates, followed by a series of short presentations including Whats exciting about strategic planning?; An introduction to risk management; Understanding what to put into your staff handbook; and Finance issues.
The afternoon comprises two sets of four in depth workshops, from which you can select one from each block. Session 1 - Select one from: - Human Resources understanding discrimination - A mine of useful information? Striking gold on the internet - Bringing the strategic planning template to life - Risk assessment - a practical session
Session 2 Select one from: - Budgeting - How not to write annual reports - Running a company - Tips for building a stronger committee Please visit www.nicva.org for the full programme and booking form.
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Nominate Your Community Relations Champion
The Community Relations Council invites nominations for its 2008 Award for exceptional contribution to inter-community relations. This annual award, in the form of a bronze sculpture, was created in 2006.
The nomination criteria are: - Evidence of exceptional, sustained and long term commitment to community relations work - Evidence of cross community commitment across Northern Ireland and/or across the Border - An embodiment of CRC values - Evidence of impact on the thinking around community relations issues. Self-nominations will not be accepted and CRC staff and existing CRC members may not be nominated. Family relatives of CRC staff and members are also ineligible. Nominations should be submitted an official CRC nomination form to the Community Relations Council by Monday 31 March 2008. The winner will be announced and awarded during Community Relations Week, 30 April to 6 May 2007. Applications forms are available on-line at www.community-relations.org.uk/about-the-council/news/148/community-relations-award-2008/.
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