To download Rachel Doyle’s presentation, Context Trends and Challenges, please click here

To download the MRCI presentation, Justice For the Undocumented, please click here

To download Brendan Oogle’s presentation, Water is a Right, please click here

To download Hugh Frazer’s presentation, Current issues and trends in anti-poverty work in Ireland and the EU,  please click here

To download the DFI presentation, Disability and Equality in Community Development: Supporting and Promoting Change, please click here

Community workers connecting, reflecting and acting: realising social change in Ireland

Community Work Ireland in association with the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University warmly invites you to participate in our summer school which takes place on Wednesday June 15^th and Thursday June 16^th in Maynooth University focusing on human rights based community work.

The Summerschool is designed to be a peer-led learning experience and is not a training programme in community work/community development. It is strongly advised that you have experience of working as a community worker for at least two years in a paid or voluntary basis.

To download the final programme please click here

To register please click here

The summer school has three main objectives:

• Connecting community workers, community work organisations and other sectors who are interested in using community work approaches;

• Reflecting on the current context of community work in Ireland and the opportunities and challenges this presents to all of us;

• Acting together to develop new and innovative community work responses to realise social change in Ireland

Places are limited on the programme so advanced booking is advised. Please note priority will eb given to CWI members. Click here to take you to the booking page

Cost: €25 for waged workers, €20 for CWI members, €15 for unwaged and students which will cover a main course lunch on each of the two days of the programme, programme materials and associated costs. A small limited number of bursaries will be available upon request.

Accommodation: a limited number of shared university accommodation has been booked and is available at a reasonable rate. This can be booked for those attending the school on a first come first served basis when registration forms are issued.

Attendance/CPD certificates will be available for participants – please let us know if you want to avail of this offer.

To register please click here

Don’t want to register online? Click here for the registration form – this can downloaded, completed and posted with the registration fee to Community Work Ireland, Westside Resource Centre, Seamus Quirke Road, Galway by Friday June 10th.