May 28, 7.00pm - 9.00pm: CVNI South group meeting has been scheduled for Room 1.04 in Brookfield Health Sciences, UCC . There is a ‘Breathing Space’ group meeting starting at 6.15 pm in the same room. All are welcome.
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June 7, 9.30am - 4.30pm: The Irish Institute of Mental Health Nursing presents Symposium III, 'Advancing Mental Health Nursing'
Venue: Douglas Hyde Lecture Theatre Main Building Athlone Institute of Technology
For details on registration, submitting abstracts, AIT campus map, please visit http://www.iimhn.org/Conference2012.asp
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July 9, 10, 11: The Association for Medical Humanities, in association with Wellcome Trust, presents 'Medical Identities: patients and professionals' at University College Cork. For further information please contact by email: medshumsireland@gmail.com
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June 11, 10.00 - 4.30pm: One Day Conference Celebrating 25 years of HVN 'Looking to the Future' held at Birmingham City University. For further information please contact by email: mailto:nhvn@hotmail.co.uk or Tel: (+44)114 271 8210.
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June 13, 14, 15: An 'Experiential Workshop for Mental Health Staff and People with Lived Experience' who want to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate a Hearing Voices Support Group.Hosted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, at the Brookfield Health Services Complex, University College Cork, facilitated by Jaqui Dillon. Expression of interest and application forms available from Harry Gijbels. Tel: 021 490 1551 or email h.gijbels@ucc.ie.
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June 22, 9.30am -4.15pm Independent Cork Advocacy Service "SHEP" will be hosting an important one-day seminar on independent advocacy. This seminar will be of interest to people who are working in Independent Advocacy, either in a paid or voluntary capacity, or those with a special interest. It will provide an opportunity to come together to reflect on current developments in the practice of Independent Advocacy in Ireland. A key focus of this seminar will be the role of advocacy support when differences in communication limit clear instruction. Venue: The Meditation Centre, The Bessborough Centre, Blackrock, Cork. For further details, please contact Fiona Devlin at fiona.devlin@socialandhealth.com. The closing date for registration is Friday, June 1st.
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June 23, 9.30- 4.30 pm: Conference “Mental Health Law Reform: New Perspectives & Challenges The Centre for Disability, Law and Policy at the School of Law NUI Galway & Amnesty International Ireland will host a day International Mental Health Conference on 23 June 2012 Venue: North Campus, NUI Galway.
Speakers Include:
The conference is aimed at service users, legal practitioners, mental health professionals, advocates, academics, policy makers, politicians, NGOs and any person or organisation interested in mental health law and policy. The Department of Health is currently undertaking a review of the Mental Health Act 2001. This conference will examine issues relevant to this review, including Ireland’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it moves towards ratification. The conference will hear from leading national and international experts on mental health law and policy. The conference will also hear from an expert panel on mental health in Ireland, which will be composed of a service user, psychiatrist, family member and legal practitioner. For further information please contact: Elaine Keane at info.cdlp@nuigalway.ie or on 091-494270
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Ongoing Announcement: Masters of Social Science (Social Policy)-Evening Programme, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Applications are now invited for the newly reconfigured Masters in Social Policy programme. This is a full-time, one-year course which provides students with an opportunity to engage critically in social policy analysis of contemporary issues confronting Ireland, Europe and the wider world. This is particularly relevant in the context of the current economic crisis. As recently highlighted by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, it is time for Irish universities to offer an intellectual response to the current crisis: 'The economic crisis is not abstract in its form, or its consequences, as expectations are shattered, exclusions from real citizenship created, through poverty, unemployment and all of the insecurity that flows from fear of losing one’s home, loss of loved ones to unanticipated emigration and a bewildering confusion as to self-worth… Intellectuals are challenged to a moral choice, to drift into, to be part of, a consensus that accepts a failed paradigm of life and economy, or to offer, or seek to recover, the possibility of alternative futures... Universities have a great challenge in the questions that are posed now, questions that are beyond ones of narrow utility’ (The Irish Times, 26/01/12).
The M.Soc.Sc. (Social Policy) equips students with the theoretical and practical skills to engage in critical social research and policy analysis. As part of this course, students can now specialize in a particular social policy area of their choice. The specialist pathways include:
*Mental Health and Disability: This module aims to provide a critical understanding of key perspectives in the areas of mental health and disability, and their implications for policy, research and practice. Particular consideration will be given to innovative approaches grounded in the principles of human rights and citizenship.
*Children and Young People: This specialist pathway is designed for a wide range of professionals working with children and young people. Students are encouraged to critically reflect on policy and address theory and research relevant to their own interests. Topics covered include: children and young people in society; children’s rights, participation and democratic engagement; and theorising and researching childhood & youth.
*Critical Social Policy: This pathway provides students with advanced knowledge in critical social policy theory and skills to engage in the analysis of key contemporary social policy issues. As part of this course, students will theorize and critically examine key current social policy developments, and consider the implications of recent trends for social policy and welfare states.
*Conflict, Transformation and Peace Building: This specialist pathway aims to explore the causes and dynamics of conflict in society and grass-roots and governmental approaches to conflict transformation and peace-building internationally. Conflict in Ireland and thepeace process in the North will act as a focus. However, the course will also explore peace-building interventions globally and the concepts of ‘dealing with the past’, ‘transitional justice’ and ‘nation-building’ in post-conflict societies. For further information on course structure, and entry requirements please see /uploads/7/4/2/0/7420492/msc_sp_programme_requirements_structure_ucc..doc
For more details, please contact:
Ms. Eluska Fernandez by phoning +353 21 4903765; or by emailing e.fernandez@ucc.ie.
June 13, 14, 15: An 'Experiential Workshop for Mental Health Staff and People with Lived Experience' who want to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate a Hearing Voices Support Group.Hosted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, at the Brookfield Health Services Complex, University College Cork, facilitated by Jaqui Dillon. Expression of interest and application forms available from Harry Gijbels. Tel: 021 490 1551 or email h.gijbels@ucc.ie.
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June 22, 9.30am -4.15pm Independent Cork Advocacy Service "SHEP" will be hosting an important one-day seminar on independent advocacy. This seminar will be of interest to people who are working in Independent Advocacy, either in a paid or voluntary capacity, or those with a special interest. It will provide an opportunity to come together to reflect on current developments in the practice of Independent Advocacy in Ireland. A key focus of this seminar will be the role of advocacy support when differences in communication limit clear instruction. Venue: The Meditation Centre, The Bessborough Centre, Blackrock, Cork. For further details, please contact Fiona Devlin at fiona.devlin@socialandhealth.com. The closing date for registration is Friday, June 1st.
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June 23, 9.30- 4.30 pm: Conference “Mental Health Law Reform: New Perspectives & Challenges The Centre for Disability, Law and Policy at the School of Law NUI Galway & Amnesty International Ireland will host a day International Mental Health Conference on 23 June 2012 Venue: North Campus, NUI Galway.
Speakers Include:
- Professor Bernadette McSherry, Director, Centre for the Advancement of Law and Mental Health, Monash University, Australia
- Professor Phil Fennell, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Wales
- Professor Amita Dhanda, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India
- Dr. Mary Donnelly, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College Cork, Ireland
- Ms. Roisin Webb BL, Children and Youth Policy Officer, Mental Health, Amnesty International Ireland
- Expert Panel on Mental Health in Ireland
The conference is aimed at service users, legal practitioners, mental health professionals, advocates, academics, policy makers, politicians, NGOs and any person or organisation interested in mental health law and policy. The Department of Health is currently undertaking a review of the Mental Health Act 2001. This conference will examine issues relevant to this review, including Ireland’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it moves towards ratification. The conference will hear from leading national and international experts on mental health law and policy. The conference will also hear from an expert panel on mental health in Ireland, which will be composed of a service user, psychiatrist, family member and legal practitioner. For further information please contact: Elaine Keane at info.cdlp@nuigalway.ie or on 091-494270
__________________________________________________________________
Ongoing Announcement: Masters of Social Science (Social Policy)-Evening Programme, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Applications are now invited for the newly reconfigured Masters in Social Policy programme. This is a full-time, one-year course which provides students with an opportunity to engage critically in social policy analysis of contemporary issues confronting Ireland, Europe and the wider world. This is particularly relevant in the context of the current economic crisis. As recently highlighted by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, it is time for Irish universities to offer an intellectual response to the current crisis: 'The economic crisis is not abstract in its form, or its consequences, as expectations are shattered, exclusions from real citizenship created, through poverty, unemployment and all of the insecurity that flows from fear of losing one’s home, loss of loved ones to unanticipated emigration and a bewildering confusion as to self-worth… Intellectuals are challenged to a moral choice, to drift into, to be part of, a consensus that accepts a failed paradigm of life and economy, or to offer, or seek to recover, the possibility of alternative futures... Universities have a great challenge in the questions that are posed now, questions that are beyond ones of narrow utility’ (The Irish Times, 26/01/12).
The M.Soc.Sc. (Social Policy) equips students with the theoretical and practical skills to engage in critical social research and policy analysis. As part of this course, students can now specialize in a particular social policy area of their choice. The specialist pathways include:
*Mental Health and Disability: This module aims to provide a critical understanding of key perspectives in the areas of mental health and disability, and their implications for policy, research and practice. Particular consideration will be given to innovative approaches grounded in the principles of human rights and citizenship.
*Children and Young People: This specialist pathway is designed for a wide range of professionals working with children and young people. Students are encouraged to critically reflect on policy and address theory and research relevant to their own interests. Topics covered include: children and young people in society; children’s rights, participation and democratic engagement; and theorising and researching childhood & youth.
*Critical Social Policy: This pathway provides students with advanced knowledge in critical social policy theory and skills to engage in the analysis of key contemporary social policy issues. As part of this course, students will theorize and critically examine key current social policy developments, and consider the implications of recent trends for social policy and welfare states.
*Conflict, Transformation and Peace Building: This specialist pathway aims to explore the causes and dynamics of conflict in society and grass-roots and governmental approaches to conflict transformation and peace-building internationally. Conflict in Ireland and thepeace process in the North will act as a focus. However, the course will also explore peace-building interventions globally and the concepts of ‘dealing with the past’, ‘transitional justice’ and ‘nation-building’ in post-conflict societies. For further information on course structure, and entry requirements please see /uploads/7/4/2/0/7420492/msc_sp_programme_requirements_structure_ucc..doc
For more details, please contact:
Ms. Eluska Fernandez by phoning +353 21 4903765; or by emailing e.fernandez@ucc.ie.
