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Cork Metropolitan Area

Providing multidisciplinary creative space in Cork city centre

Seward House Cork

Employer Based Training Programme

Macroom, Co. Cork, Attached To The Hollyhill Ind. Estate Training Centre.

With Eileen Ryan, under the management of Noel Shannon, was one of the original instructors working in the Macroom Focus Programme. This is a non-therapeutic intervention in the lives of people who are past the acute phase of mental health challenge, and who are ready to move on with their lives. It combines personal development, confidence building and self-awareness with the knowledge, skills and experience to manage their mental health with a view to entering or returning to the workplace.

Cork, Ireland

My conflict work is mostly with institutions and non profit organisations.The decision to seek outside intervention to address conflicts is often made a long time after matters have escalated. Since the 1980s, despite working with around 300 different groups, every conflict had its own unique character, and every solution required an approach specific to the situation.

Cork And Bandon

1. On contract to Cork City Council, I conducted a research project on the barriers to Traveller training. This study came about when the Minister of State at the Dept of Justice, Equality and Law Reform Frank Fahy requested eight areas, including Cork City, to develop an action plan for an inter-agency approach to the delivery of Traveller specific services at a local level. Cork City Council was nominated to lead an inter-agency working group to examine barriers to Traveller participation in training. The goal of the research was to find out what categories of Traveller (analysed by sex, age group, family status and accommodation type) are not availing of training opportunities, why, and what could be done to improve their access to training, and by this to improve their access to employment and self-employment.2. On contract to Bandon Family Support Group I established a volunteer-led IT training project in the Deerpark and Clancool housing estates. Using 40 low-end PCs donated by local businesses and institutions, and based on a 40-step learning plan which I designed, I drew up a mutual training contract in which each student had to commit to pass their learning on to the next student who joined the project. In 12 weeks, the project involved 48 adults who had never used a PC. It is a self-sustaining model of training which has zero costs aside from the time needed for the initial networking and set-up.

Lower John Street, Cork.

Role had three official elements.1. Work towards raising the school leaving age of Travellers.2. Influence the development of sustainable accommodation options for Travellers3. Facilitate greater involvement of Traveller men in issue-based collective actionArising from these areas of work, I also became deeply involved in the following areas:4. Anti-discrimination work5. Work to support Traveller horse ownership.6. Work to develop a new premises for the organisation.

Cork, Ireland.

Lectured part time for the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, UCC. In this Part Time Academic Lecturer role my work included Preparation and delivery of courses in:- group work, - community development theory and practice, - social programme research,- group facilitation, - social programme evaluation.

Grattan Street, Cork

Establishment and co-ordination of community development training and support for emerging and established community groups.

Infirmary Road, Cork.

This is a non-residential school for children at risk. My role included the development of programmes with the pupils, and liaison with the social service agencies that had a role in their lives.

Grattan Street, Cork.

Cork Community Services Council, Grattan St, Cork was an umbrella body for community and voluntary groups in the greater Cork area. My role was in the formation and training of community groups.

South Circular Road, Dublin 8.

Coordinated the Art Competition for the South Inner City Community Games.Kindly allowed to observe meetings of the Fatima Mansions Residents Action Committee.Networked with Dolphin House Residents Association.

Certificate In Management And Peer Supervision, Management And Peer Supervision, Pass

Certified Trainer In Advanced Facilitation Skills., Group Facilitation, Advanced

Advanced Community Development Consultancy, Community Development Consultancy, Advanced

Bachelor’S Degree, Social Sciences, Pass Degree

Activities and Societies: Committee member, Philosophical Society Auditor, Sociological Society Secretary, Field Hockey Club Founder.