The Empowering Communities Programme will use a community development approach to address social exclusion and the impacts of poverty in specific geographic areas. The approach will be driven by Community Engagement Workers.
This event will look at how Covid -19 impacted employment /self-employment and the personal experiences, opportunities, and challenges faced by both employees/employers. We consider how changes to the workplace caused by Covid- 19 may influence how we work in future.
The webinar is aimed at those who work in employment supports with Local Development Companies and other agencies supporting job seekers.
This event promises to be engaging and interesting and speakers will include:
Deputy Lord Mayor
Guest Paul Geraghty, Principal Officer Department of Rural Community Development)
Speakers:
Dr. Adele Whelan (ESRI)
“The effectiveness of SICAP supports in helping the long-term unemployed with low levels of education to transition into employment”.
Joan McNaboe (SOLAS)
“Future Employment Trends in Ireland (changes to employment patterns and business sectors that are likely to expand or decline in the years ahead.”
Sophie Crosbie (IBEC)
“Attracting and Retaining Staff in a Post Covid Economy”
Fiona Dunne (Hospitality Trainer )
“Changing the Perceptions of an Employment Sector in buoyant labour market.”
We will hear individual stories from clients of Cork City Partnership who were supported by SICAP, TUS and the Local Employment Service, their journey from unemployment to employment and their journey around COVID.
The 2022 Small Grants Scheme under the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) is open to community and voluntary groups in the Cork City area* who are working to promote social inclusion and address disadvantage.
These grants are intended to help community and voluntary groups who support SICAP target groups to purchase small items of capital.
The following criteria will apply:
The maximum grant will be €1,500.
Grants will cover once off costs.
Grants will cover small scale capital items that will improve and enhance the function of the group and its work.
Where small-scale capital items have a higher cost than €1,500 there should be evidence that match funding is in place.
Grants should not duplicate other sources of local funding by funding the same costs.
Where relevant alternative funding is available to a particular sector, these groups will be ineligible.
Supporting documentation, including invoices, delivery dockets etc. should be retained for a period of 6 years to facilitate verification checking by Cork City Partnership.
Groups receiving funding will be recorded as a beneficiary of SICAP on the Programme’s IRIS database.
All applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application week beginning 7th November 2022.
Deadline for applications: Tuesday, 1st November 2022 @ 5pm.
Our Cork City Partnership Autumn Community Education Brochure is now available, featuring community education courses and a number of certified courses. Courses will run in community locations across the city.
To enroll please call in to one of ourOutreach Officesor contact Margo Hayes 087 1962023.
Courses are short, designed as a first step in returning to learning, with the option of referral to follow on courses
There is a wide range of courses to choose from in a number of community locations
Courses are free to eligible participants*
Community development approaches are used to ensure that the learning environment is supportive
Places allocated to eligible applicants on a first come basis
Courses will only proceed if sufficient numbers register
Venues used for the courses have universal access where possible. Some venues may have limited disability access for people with mobility issues
Who is eligible for these Courses?
Participants will be asked to complete a registration form to demonstrate eligibility and can include Disadvantaged Women, People living in Disadvantaged Communities, Lone Parents, Low Income Workers / Households, The Unemployed, People with Disabilities, The Disengaged from the Labour Market (Economically Inactive), Disadvantaged Families, Older People, New Communities (including Refugees and Asylum seekers),Disadvantaged Young People (aged 18-24), Roma, Travellers.
Eligible participants must live within the area of Cork City as defined by the 2019 boundary (before City Expansion).
The Substance Use Issues & Community Work Course 2022 / 23 is designed to promote good practice among those who work (in a paid or voluntary capacity) with young people and communities who are affected by various issues.
Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide a critical perspective on some of the issues that affect young people and their communities and encourages the development of coherent responses at individual and organisational level. The components (Understanding Community Development and Substance Use Issues) should support the ability of learners to work safely and effectively in youth and / or community work settings. The programme also aims to provide the participants with the necessary knowledge regarding applicable supports systems, both within and outside their communities.
Cost – €130 for each successful applicant. For further information on course tuition fees contact: Jacqueline Daly, Cork City Partnership.
Entry Requirements-
Applicants must send the relevant application form to Cork City Partnership by Friday 26th August 2022. Be 21 or over (Jan 2022). Attend a pre-entry information session 6th September 2022 (evening). Attend a pre- arranged interview 13th September 2022 (day) in Cork City Partnership or online [TBC]. Have Leaving Certificate or its equivalent. Applicants are also expected to be active participants in the community in either a voluntary or work capacity.
Cork City Partnership – Friendly Call Cork are delighted to partner with the Health Research Implementation Hub in the School of Public Health (UCC) and hosted a webinar on Thursday 26th May 2022.
“Providing connection during COVID-19: Exploring the implementation of Friendly Call Cork”.
Seminar
Fiona Riordan and Tanya van de Water will present findings from the LINK (Learning how to create Integrated community Networks through Knowledge exchange) project, funded by an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award. COVID-19 has focused more attention on befriending services to support people who may be vulnerable and experiencing loneliness. However, there is limited research on how befriending services work.
Friendly Call Cork is a service based in Cork City which addresses isolation and loneliness through a daily phone call to older people and individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
The LINK project aimed to understand how the service is implemented, how it links in with healthcare services, how people who use the service (clients) and volunteers experience the service, and how the service adapted during the pandemic.
Welcome to our 36th edition of our Newsletter from Cork City Partnership Clg. The aim of the newsletter is to keep our clients informed about the services that they can access and other information. We hope you find it useful and as always we welcome your feedback.
Are you a woman working in the home who wants to draw on this experience and put it to new use ?
‘Growing Your Potential’ is an exciting new 10 week Training and Development course for women offering:
Confidence Building
CV Preparation & Interview Skills;
Career Coaching;
Personal Presentation for Interview & the Workplace
Communication & Customer Care.
This course is now being delivered online and Participants are really enjoying the new format. Many women expressed how important it was to get much needed ‘Me Time’ and the opportunity to build new friendships and learn new skills in a supportive environment.
We are presently recruiting for our next course starting in early May – so if you are a woman living in Cork City, not on a Job Seeker Payment and interested in finding out more about this innovative course then please contact:
A webinaron 31st January 2022 Opening the Door more: Services working with Travellers in 2022 launched research highlighting the need for widespread and ongoing culturally competent and relational work across the statutory, community and voluntary sector between non-Traveller projects and Traveller projects to improve access to services.
Interviews with Travellers speaking of their firsthand experiences accessing services provided a backdrop to the launch. Participants said that feeling welcome in a service helped them to feel good about themselves and continue to engage with the service. Others spoke about how feeling unwelcome, with even daily negative experiences, led to feelings of ‘mistrust, low mood, fear, anger and hurt’ creating a viscous circle that affected all aspects of their lives.
The webinar was hosted by the Cork Traveller Visibility Group’s (TVG) Traveller Specific Drug and Alcohol Project and Cork City Partnership’s Community Outreach Drug and Alcohol Awareness Project (CODAAP). Both organisations jointly co-ordinated a family support project that involved recruitment of a group of 16 community-based healthcare workers across Cork and Kerry, who participated in a combined a training package, research and community engagement events. The project took place over the last two years with funding from the HSE Cork/Kerry Alcohol Harm & Families Project Grant.
Research was conducted both before, during and after the project actions, examining the experience of the group of 16 healthcare project workers who completed a combined culturally inclusive and new skills (5-Step Method family support) training package. Findings showed that the combined training (incorporating anti-bias training and trauma aware working alongside new skills training in family support), was effective in reducing worker bias towards Travellers initially, for a limited period, but that its impact diminished over time.
The research points towards the need to embed ongoing cultural competence measures within organisations, as the initial positive impact on the healthcare worker’s bias reduced somewhat 6 months after completion of the combined training.
The research additionally highlights the benefits of supporting and resourcing staff to engage in relational work with the Traveller community, in order to create links, build trust and, critically, increase uptake of support services by Traveller families.
‘Engaging Older People – Reflections from Covid-19’
We held a webinar on Wednesday, 3rd November.
This event focused on how the lessons we learnt through Covid-19 will impact on our approach to engaging with older people in the future. The webinar targeted development workers, LCDC members, local authority staff, volunteers, community group members, academics, and students.
Minister for Mental Health and Older People Mary Butler TD
Dr. Mark Ward, Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Lead Author of ‘Altered lives in a time of crisis: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of older adults in Ireland’.
School of Public Health Dr. Fiona Riordan, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork
Brenda Cahill, CEO, Cork City Partnership
Jacqui Sweeney, Social Inclusion Programmes Co-ordinator
The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018-2022 is funded by the Irish Government through the Department of Rural and Community Development and co-funded by the European Social Fund under the Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020.
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