Empowerment

 David Doran worked until recently as an employment specialist with County Kildare Leader Partnership. He provided a new kind of support service for people living with mental illness who wish to gain employment.

A total of €3.5 million in government funding has been granted to help maintain the existing level of drugs and inclusion health services provided by community and voluntary organisations.

"We're building very good practices", says Cavan Cultural Champion. The project has already spread from Monaghan to Cavan. It is backed by two local development companies and Tusla.

A new bursary fund of €200,000 was launched today to support community workers seeking to pursue endorsed postgraduate community work qualifications.

“I was abused verbally and physically by my landlord in Galway. He threatened to cut my head off and send me ‘on a slow boat back to the Congo’,” said Wally Nkikita from The Galway African Diaspora, urging others to tell their stories of racism and discrimination.

“We are sleep-walking into the collapse of a huge and essential range of services if we don’t address the shortfalls in funding which thousands of not-for-profits are experiencing,” warns Senan Turnbull, who has a lifetime’s experience in the Community and Voluntary Sector.

- 150+ students -76 jam sessions -40 online jams -11 songs written -6 bands formed -3 exchange trips - Goals exceeded

3,200 emails sent to TDs and Senators as staff and clients of disability services are "gravely worried" about the crisis facing vital services