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Working effectively with individual with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Difficulties

Online

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be back collaborating with the National Institute of Intellectual Disability Services (NIIDS) who are facilitating this 7 day programme.  This will provide frontline staff with a framework for understanding and addressing the problems that arise when an individual has both intellectual disabilities, mental health difficulties and possibly a personality disorder. It provides staff with a range of creative strategies which they can use as effective approaches.

CPD/CORU Information Session

Online

Latest from CORU following a meeting with the board of directors within Social Care Ireland.
Get your questions answered – Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Charlotte is also interested to hear about the information and supports needed for your professional development
CPD – you’re doing it, but you’re possibly not realizing it! Let us show you how to use this to your advantage.

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Social Care Ireland Annual Conference 2024

Radisson Blu Hotel Ditchley House, Little Island, Cork, Ireland

Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork 10th & 11th April 2024 Please book your accommodation directly with the hotel Provisional Conference Timetable 2024 NOTE: The Timetable may be subject to change this is beyond the control of the conference committee. Each morning after registration you can pick the workshop, policy and practice or research you would like to attend. Some will have a restriction on numbers and fill up quickly. The title of this years conference is; Beyond Registration: the challenges of equality, diversity and inclusion for social care workers and the communities they serve. The long-awaited registration for social […]

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Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Online

This is an interdisciplinary event, Social Care Ireland are collaborating with the Irish Association of Social Work and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists. We have collaborated on similar events in the past that have been very successful. Sharing learning from different professions views has many advantages. (SFBT) is an effective, respectful, and powerful tool for workers in the health and social care field. SFBT focuses on client’s resources and skills, rather than on their deficits and weaknesses to help them to find solutions and create preferred futures rather than dwelling on past failures.

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Foundations of Inclusive practice – A Social Role Valorisation (SRV) taster

Online

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be working on this project with Charlotte Knight; Supported Self-Directed Living (SSDL) Trainer and Consultant and Pamela Mansell (SSDL) Trainer, Executive Coach and Consultant. This taster workshop is suitable for any social care practitioner who has no prior knowledge of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and would like to find out more. This session offers a brief overview of the central concepts; social devaluation, wounding, power of roles and the potential to bring about positive change in the lives of marginalised people.

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Motivational Interviewing Level 1

Online

This is an interdisciplinary event between Social Care Ireland (SCI) the Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW), the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI), and the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP). The course has been funded by the HSCP Office, HSE. As such, places are available to social care workers in the publicly funded healthcare service only.

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An Introduction to Social Role Valorisation

Online

Social Care Ireland are delighted to be back working on this project with Charlotte Knight; Supported Self-Directed Living (SSDL) Trainer and Consultant and Pamela Mansell (SSDL) Trainer, Executive Coach and Consultant. Last year we ran a taster workshop and this five day workshop which was highly successful and sold out. These series of session will delve a little deeper into the concept of social devaluation, wounding, power of roles and the potential to bring about positive change. This series is suitable for any social care practitioner who has no prior knowledge of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and would like to find out more.

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Decider Skills

Portlaoise

This is an interdisciplinary event between Social Care Ireland (SCI), The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW), the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), The Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute (INDI), and the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland (AOTI). The course has been funded by the HSCP Office, HSE. As such, places are available to social care workers in the publicly funded healthcare service only.

Leadership – Winning Negotiations

Online

This collaboration between Social Care Ireland and the Irish Association of Social Work has successfully facilitated several interdisciplinary leadership workshops together. This year six professions from the professional development network identified leadership skills as a CPD need within their profession. Expanding these interdisciplinary Leadership workshops would be beneficial to share learning across a whole host of different leadership roles within the different sectors

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Attachment and Trauma Informed Care in a Health & Social Care Context

Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone

Working with attachment and trauma in a relational way has many inherent challenges – nowhere is this more prevalent and complex than in the field of health and social care. Carol Duffy has 20 years’ experience working in health and social care and 15 of those have been practicing as a child and adolescent psychotherapist specialising in play therapy.

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Leadership – Overcoming an Immunity to Change.

Online

This collaboration between Social Care Ireland and the Irish Association of Social Work has successfully facilitated several interdisciplinary leadership workshops together. This year six professions from the professional development network identified leadership skills as a CPD need within their profession. Expanding these interdisciplinary Leadership workshops would be beneficial to share learning across a whole host of different leadership roles within the different sectors.

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Who’s Life is it Anyway? – Enabling Choice & Self Direction in Social Care Practice

Online

This is a bespoke workshop specifically for social care workers/leaders/managers that have some understanding of Social Role Valorisation. This workshop will focus in depth on some the key concept of choice. The belief that people with disability are capable of determining their own life choices – including where and with whom they live, how they support themselves and what they aspire to achieve – is relatively recent. Historically, services for people with disability had largely been premised on the belief that they needed to be segregated in institutions, away from mainstream community life.

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