Educating Gateway - Planning for Gateway's Future

Howdy folks,

We will be running a planning workshop in the near future and would like you to get involved. Please see the attached flyer, we have 18 places available for this one so if you are interested, don't delay  - let us know and we'll put your name down on the list.

Cheers Folks

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Important Conversations Group

Hi Folks,

Our next important conversations group will take place on Thursday 3rd December in Parker Hill from 5pm to 7pm, and will deal with the themes of Connecting and Gateway Networking.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided on the night. We have 18 places available for this one folks, so if you are interested in attending please let us know in the office and we will make sure your name is put down for it.

All the best folks,

John M.

Important Conversations Group Poster 5.11.15

Launch of the D12 Community Mental Health Forum - invitation to the community

The Dublin 12 Community Mental Health Forum is celebrating its official launch as part of a new initiative to progress positive mental health and recovery across the Dublin 12 community Wednesday 25th November from 10.00-12.00pm...

To celebrate the official launch of the Dublin 12 Community Mental Health Forum (D12CMHF), members and workers in the community are invited to join the Laughter Lunch with very special guest comedian and poet John Moynes, will take place on Wednesday morning, 25th November from 10.00am-12.00pm in Father Kitt Court, St Agnes Road, Crumlin Village and will include a light lunch.  The launch will also hear from guest speakers Orla Barry, Chief Executive of Mental Health Ireland, and former Director of Mental Health Reform.  Ms Barry will be joined by William Finnegan, a local person with lived mental health experience and D12 CMHF member.  See launch booklet below:

The D12 CMHF was established in November 2014 by a number of community, statutory and voluntary organisations in Dublin 12, Rathmines and Tallaght working collaboratively to promote positive mental health and advance recovery in the local community.  

Take a look at the blog for more information here: D12 Community Mental Health Forum

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UCC Cork conference 'Critical Perspectives on and Beyond the Therapy Industry' WEBCASTS

Last week a group from Gateway attended the UCC Cork conference 'Critical Perspectives on and Beyond the Therapy Industry' in University College Cork, Ireland on 11th & 12th  November 2015. It was both a stimulating and fun experience and great to go again as a group. Thanks to DCC for helping us to fund this trip through a small community grant.

For those who are interested and fancy learning more, the organisers have just uploaded the keynote presentations online, click on the link here to see the webcasts and other information relating to the conference this year: http://www.cvni.ie/index.php/this-years-conference

Enjoy!

Fionn

CAN2 Event

Hi All

Please see attached invitation to the next CAN2 event on Tuesday 24th of November.

CAN2 is a Canal Communities Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force funded initiative to provide training, education, and an opportunity for networking to the staff of the local projects.

Our guest speakers for this event will be:

Dr Claire McMoreland,
Clinical Psychologist from Headway who will talk about Alcohol Related Brain Injury, and

Denis O'Driscoll,
Senior Pharmacist with the HSE Addiction Services, who will talk about how alcohol reacts with other drugs in the body.

As usual we will be hosting our networking lunch from 12.30pm. Hope to see you there!

Please RSVP at your earliest convenience

Kind regards
--
Emma Fox
Project Development Worker
Canal Communities Regional Addiction Service       
Oblate View, Third Floor
Tryconnell Road
Inchicore
Dublin 8
Tel: 086 3845565

CAN2 Alcohol V2

Introduction to App Design and Development for Mobile Phones

Hi everyone,

Please find attached a flyer for a course that is starting on Friday 20^th November in Fr. Kitt Court, Crumlin Village, Dublin 12.

The course is an introduction to App Design and Development for Mobile Phones. It takes place over 4 sessions 2pm-4pm from Friday 20^th November to Friday 11^th December. No IT or previous experience is necessary. Registration is required and we will be prioritising young unemployed people from the CCP areas of Dublin 4, 6, 6W, 8 and 12.

The office number is 4095082. They will be the main contacts for registration for this course.

Please give me a call if you’ve any questions,

Regards

Tara

Introduction to App Development Nov15

Cork Critical Perspectives Conference Live Streaming

Dear All

Apologies for cross posting.

For those of you not attending the above annual critical perspective conference this Wednesday and Thursday, you may be interested to watch the keynotes which are being streamed live.

Please use the following link https://ucc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx#status=%5B2%2C5%5D

Alternatively, follow the links below:

09:45 David Pilgrim
An Honorary Professor of Health; Social Policy at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. His career has been divided between working as a policy researcher and as a clinical psychologist in the British NHS.
  Live Stream Link

12:00 Dina Poursanidou
A Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, based at the Service User Research Enterprise; Dina has used mental health services since 2008; Member of Asylum, the magazine for democratic psychiatry.
  Live Stream Link

13:45 Malcolm Garland
A consultant psychiatrist in Dublin. His team tries to incorporate novel and alternative approaches, including a minimal medication approach and an ethos fostering individuation, not dependence.
  Live Stream Link

Thursday 12 November:

09:45 Jacqui Dillon
is a respected speaker, writer and activist, who has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, psychosis, dissociation and recovery. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England.
  Live Stream Link

10:30 Wilma Boevink
An experiential expert, social scientist at the Trimbos-Institute, the Netherlands. Former Professor of Recovery and founder of Tree (towards Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise).
  Live Stream Link

13:45 Rory Doody
A Recovery Development Advocate. He is a voice hearer and engages with his own mental health as often as he breathes! Plagued by inner questions like “who does this serve?” he enquires in the different areas of his work, involving education, case work, service and policy developments, structural change, and good intentions.
  Live Stream Link


Plenty of conference information (e.g. programme and Book of Abstract) on www.cvni.ie

Regards

Harry Gijbels and Lydia Sapouna

www.cvni.ie (recently re-constructed and being further developed, thanks to Gordon Lucas)
criticalvoices@working4recovery.com