LEADER and SICAP
LEADER In The Communty - Spotlight on: Water Biodiversity Training Programme for Duhallow Communities By STEPHANIE MOYNIHAN In 2022, with the aid of LEADER funding, IRD Duhallow was delighted to deliver Water Biodiversity Training Programme for Duhallow Communities. The overall aim of this project was to equip local community and voluntary groups with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan for water biodiversity in their local area and to ensure it has minimum negative impact and maximum benefit for the local environment. This project met the needs of community groups in Duhallow who identified a lack of knowledge and education in successfully approaching Water Biodiversity initiatives. The need for this training was identified through
outreach work carried out by IRD Duhallow whereby this project provided comprehensive training in water biodiversity to help communities to help themselves and deliver local area impacts through targeted action. The Water Biodiversity Training Programme is in keeping with a long running history of community based environmental action in Duhallow that has stimulated the area through a bottom up approach to citizen led environmental science. IRD Duhallow engaged a qualified Consultancy team to develop this training, with development
potential of local projects and roll out of Citizen Science locally. The project facilitated networking and cooperation between people of all ages including young people, community groups and farmers. It provided an ideal learning environment for those involved and brought people together who may not have met otherwise was it not for this project.
#SICAPStories: Nurturing Resilience in Children
-Becoming more mindful of our language and what it might be communicating -Worries and emotions -Strategies and activities in accepting negative feelings, re-framing and moving on In September 2022, a further seminar will be planned. This workshop will cover Starting School or Moving on – Supporting our children with Separation, Change and Transitions. Giving guidance on issues such as morning routines, reacting and supporting big emotions, separation and the drop off, this workshop will be of interest to any
parents of young children under eight experiencing a period of transition in their young lives. Designed to help parents and guardians cope with difficulties their children may encounter during times of big change, this seminar will provide support and helpful advice. For further information please contact Nollaig Murphy on 029-60633. The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018 – 2022 provides funding to tackle poverty and social exclusion through local engagement and partnerships between disadvantaged individuals, community organisations and public sector agencies. Administered by Pobal and funded by the Irish Government through the Department of Rural and Community Development, it also receives funding from the European Social Fund under the Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 20142020.
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Issue 69 July 29, 2022
By STEPHANIE MOYNIHAN
IRD Duhallow’s Youth and Education Working Group is to the fore in promoting the social, personal and educational wellbeing of young people in Duhallow. In June 2021, IRD Duhallow’s Youth and Education Working Group hosted a very well attended workshop entitled Nurturing Resilience in Children which was facilitated by behaviour specialist Deirdre Holland Hannon. The purpose of this seminar was to enable parents in obtaining practical solutions and strategies in day to day issues which may arise in the parenting of their children. Topics covered on this occasion included: -Helping young children with failures and mistakes -How we react to failures and mistakes -Coping with self-doubt -Recognising our own mindset and core beliefs
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