UPDATE FROM CEO SUMMER 2018 - Southside Partnership
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UPDATE FROM CEO
SUMMER 2018
The following represents some of the activities and events happening across all of the
Partnership's programmes and projects since my last update in April 2018. As always, I
wish to ensure that we share developments, as they happen, throughout the Partnership.
If you have anything you would like me to include going forward, please email me with
details.
The process of developing a new Strategic
Plan for the organisation for 2019 to 2022
is well underway.
Kieran Murphy has expertly facilitated a
number of consultations to date, including
the staff consultation on Tuesday, 22nd
May at the Larch Hill Scouting Centre,
as part of our last Staff Day.
Kieran has now produced a report on the
outcomes of the four consultation sessions
held to date, which will help guide the next
phase of the process.
It is clear that the timing is right for the
development of a new Strategic Plan for
the organisation. We will be consulting with
staff again as part of the next phase of the
process over the coming months.
Staff Day Working together... Fresh air and sunshine were great ingredients for our early summer get together for planning and team- building activities at Larch Hill. Situated on the edge of the Dublin / Wicklow mountains, in a picturesque valley between Kilmashogue and Tibradden mountains, there was space to breathe, relax and enjoy each other’s company in a day filled with discussions, ideas, activities, good food and learning from our hosts, Scouting Ireland.
SAYING GOODBYE TO:
Best wishes to Anita Kulon who recently returned to
Poland, her homeland. We greatly appreciate the
valuable contribution she made during her time with
the Partnership. As you all know, Anita was our
photographer at so many events. She ensured that we
had photographs right up to her last day with us. She
also designed many of our flyers and posters for our
projects and programmes. We appreciate her attention
to detail and commitment to expertly finishing every
job and project.
SAYING HELLO TO:
Welcome to Sean O’Kelly, who is working as an intern
with us for 3 months and who has become a Disability
Ambassador for the organisation. He is based in the
Innovation Centre in Blackrock. He welcomes
contact with staff throughout the Partnership in
relation to any queries regarding making Southside
Partnership as disability friendly as possible. This may
be in relation to the physical environment our policies
and procedures. Sean is happy to share his expertise
with you. He is also happy to assist in relation to your
digital marketing requirements. One of Sean’s
favourite mottos is “Feel the fear and do it anyway”
from the book of the same name by Susan Jeffers.
Sean has done various college courses in the business,
IT and digital marketing fields. Sean has been a
disability activist since 2016. His first exposure to
educating people about disability and its challenges
was while on work experience with the Access Officer
in DLRCoCo. He helped with workshops on disability
awareness during Social Inclusion Week for first year
secondary school students. He subsequently facilitated
further school workshops, which he enjoyed very
much.
In 2016, Sean was stranded at Clontarf
DART station going to a driving lesson,
because the lift was out of order and
he had not been informed. As a result, he
set up a campaign called ‘A day in my
wheels’ where he invites politicians and
others to spend a day in a wheelchair to
experience the challenges. This is also aimed
at the general public. Sean is pictured here
with Anton Savage who successfully
completed ‘A day in my wheels’ around
Dublin City.
Sean is delighted to have the opportunity of
working with the staff in Southside
Partnership DLR. You can contact Sean at:
Sean.O’Kelly@sspship.ie
We are also delighted to welcome (Yanjie)
Patricia Pan who has joined us as an Intern for 6
weeks, working on financial and other
projects. Originally from China, Patricia is
studying accounting and finance at Indiana
University, Kelley School of Business, USA.
Patricia is currently participating in a UCD
Summer Internship Program.
Patricia is willing to learn about the community
sector while helping out with a variety of tasks
as required.
One of Patricia’s favourite quotes is: “To be able, at
any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you
will become.” Eric Thomas
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
The Dundrum Town Centre Management team
spent a day at the Hillview Resource
Centre recently as part of their Corporate Social
Responsibility programme. This was organised by
Lisa Walsh and the Operations Manager in
Dundrum. Twenty-four of the Dundrum Town
Centre staff rolled up their sleeves and got busy
with gardening, painting and putting up fences,
and they completely transformed the children’s
play area in Hillview. This is a great example of
how working in partnership with employers can
benefit our local communities.
Social Enterprise
Clara Clarke, a founder member of Cycling
Without Age, provided a key input to our
April 'Starting a Social Enterprise' Information
Session. This was followed by a 6-week 'Starting
a Social Enterprise' series of workshops, with
tutor Caroline Egan of CramdenTECH. The series
just ended, with terrific feedback from the 8
budding social entrepreneurs who attended. This
brings the numbers, who have attended social
enterprise training with SSP since November 2017
to 20 people, with more individuals regularly
contacting the Partnership enquiring about
supports.
Social Enterprise is an exciting new area of
development for Southside Partnership with
supports being developed on an ongoing basis for
individuals and community groups – both within
the Partnership and through networking in the
Dublin area and nationally. The Partnership is
running Information Sessions to help people
better understand this area of work, meet people
for one-to-ones, ensure people have (or are
referred into) the best support and information,
Cycling Without Age provide training and also develop networking
Clara Clark is one of the Founders of the Irish opportunities for those interested in this form of
chapter of Cycling without Age. enterprise. For more information, please contact
Helena O'Neill at helena.oneill@sspship.ie.
Community Development Course
Learn more about
community development
Southside Community Training Network and Rosemount
Family Resource Centre are collaborating to offer an 8-
week course on Community Development. The course
will run from 20th September 2018 until 15th
November 2018 on Thursday mornings from 9:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Rosemount Family Resource Centre
in Dundrum. For more information on the course, please
contact Lisa Sieger-Jamison on 087 737 0372 or email
lisa.sieger@sspship.ie.
Summer Projects
This year we are running Summer Projects in Mounttown, Holly House and Furry Hill.
RePower Women's Programme
Building capacity to access
employment
The RePower Women's Programme is now
recruiting for the Autumn 2018 modules which
include a QQI L4 course in English for Speakers of
Other Languages (ESOL), a Personal Development
module, Basic Computers Skills and Advanced
Computer Skills. For more information, please
contact Marilyn Nyquist on 087 219 8183 or email
marilyn.nyquist@sspship.ie
Free One-to-One Computer /
Smartphone / Tablet Tuition
Southside Partnership’s Tús IT Computer
Training Team run free computer training
sessions which are tailored to
suit each learner's needs.
Our team can help you with virtually anything
related to: computers; internet; emails;
smartphones; apps; tablets; iPhones and
iPads.
The team can arrange for training to take place
at local community centres if that is preferred
by the learners. Please contact Sean Quin at
sean.quin@sspship.ie for more information.
Care of the Older Person
QQI Level 5
Free Programme
Southside Partnership DLR, in
conjunction with the DDL ETB, will be
offering a free Care of the Older
Person course at QQI Level 5 at the
Ballybrack Project Centre.
Please contact Gina Hogan at
gina.hogan@sspship.ie
for more information.
This programme is funded by SICAP
and supported by the DDL ETB. Classes
are arranged to suit the availability of
the learners.
AGE FRIENDLY COUNTY
2018 Update
197
Our Tús Care and Repair
team provides small DIY jobs for over
65s living in DLR. The team has
completed 197 jobs to date in 2018.
Our Tús IT Training Programme
which delivers basic computer and
mobile device training, primarily
106
aimed at the over 55s living in DLR,
trained 106 people in 2018 to date.
The Digital Skills programme is
actively recruiting trainees and we are
targeting the active retirement groups
in the county.
SICAP and Living Well with
Dementia coordinated four 10-week
chair gym programmes for 40 older
40
adults, including those suffering from
dementia. The programmes were run
in 3 locations, Rochestown Lodge
Hotel (2), Dun Laoghaire; Patrician
Villas (1), Stillorgan; and Sallynoggin
Senior Centre (1), Sallynoggin.
Healthy Food Made Easy
39
delivered courses to a total of 39
older people at Beaufort Day Care
Centre and Ballinteer Active
Retirement Association.
SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP LOCAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
SUPPORTING PEOPLE. SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES.
DUNDRUM JOBS FAIR
Our LES got great feedback from the recent Jobs
LES, Tús, CE and SICAP staff working together
Fair in Dundrum. House of Fraser has reported that
to enhance people’s employment prospects at
they have taken on 5 new employees from the Fair
the Dundrum Town Centre Jobs Fair
which they are delighted with!
Jobs clinic at the Fair with Bernard Fennessy
“Earn your confidence,
nurture it, then help to
build it in others.”
― Alex Malley
……. making connections at the Jobs Fair
LES CV Bootcamp
The next scheduled CV Bootcamp is on Monday 30th
July 2018 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The venue is
Southside Partnership DLR, Blackrock.
To register jobseekers for this workshop, please
contact Southside Partnership Local Employment
Service on (01) 284 1977 or email
caroline.mccabe@sspship.ie
LES JOB CLUB
Nicola Lapraku
Dates for upcoming Job Clubs
are as follows:
• 13th - 17th August 2018:
Five day Job Club at Southside Tús
Partnership, Blackrock New payment rates
• Minimum payment of €220.50 per week for
• 27th - 31st August 2018: working 19.5hrs per week
Five day Job Club at Southside • Includes under 25s
• Retain ALL secondary benefits
Partnership, Blackrock
• Gain valuable work experience
• No need to ‘sign on’ while on the programme
To register, contact: Nicola • Can work additional part-time hours with no
Lapraku, Job Club Administrator penalties
at Nicola.lapraku@sspship.ie or • Various roles to choose from – Childcare,
Horticulture, IT, Administration, Driver,
telephone: (01) 284 1977
Caretaker, Social Care, Project Worker, plus
many more…
Contact Marian White at
marian.white@sspship.ie for more information.NEW DASHBOARD ON IRIS TO MONITOR PERFORMANCE Southside Partnership DLR recently submitted a SICAP mid-term report to the DLR Local Community Development Committee (LCDC). As you can see from the graphics below,we are on track to deliver our 2018 annual plan. KPI 1 relates to groups and KPI 2 relates to individuals. Below, you can see the types of interventions that our SICAP staff provide to support Local Community Groups (LCGs) in DLR.
In the table below, you can also see a breakdown of the profile of the individuals that we are working
with and also the national averages.
Southside Partnership Local Employment Service (LES)
Contract renewed to 31st December 2018
We are glad to report that our contract to operate the LES in Dun Laoghaire
Rathdown has been renewed by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social
Protection (DEASP). As in previous years, we will be engaging with DEASP later this
year in relation to the 2019 contract. The Irish Local Development Network (ILDN)
has requested multi-annual contracts, of at least 3 years, from DEASP.
A report by Indecon on the LES programme nationally is due to be released in the
coming weeks. We expect the report to contain some recommendations to improve
the LES contracting process and to highlight the need to broaden the definition of
progressions to include part-time employment, community employment and Tús.
Our LES team is promoting the service to all job seekers in the county, including to
those who are not currently receiving a jobseekers payment. All referrals welcome!Feedback from the recent children’s
archaeology workshops
Dr. Mark Powers, supported Southside Partnership with the
development of children’s archaeology courses and provided
fantastic student experiences.
The teachers ‘dug deep’ in their praise....
"The children really enjoyed the experience of having archaeologist,
Dr. Mark Powers, in the classroom. It was truly exciting to participate
in a real life dig and uncover artifacts. Among the highlights were
imitating rock art on real stones, learning about bog bodies, the
archaeology of Dublin and of course the dig itself. It was most
stimulating and educational for the children and embodied a hands-on
active-learning approach. I would love this experience in any future
class I teach."
Ms. Casey , 4th Class, St. Joseph's School, Dun Laoghaire.
"We were very lucky that both Holy Family and St. Joseph's National
schools got to take part in this pilot programme. The professionalism,
rich and varied content and active-learning lessons were enthralling
for the children. The big highlight was having the tools and resources
for the classes involved to discover artefacts in a specially designed
archaeological pit in the schools. I am very grateful to Southside
Partnership and Dr. Powers for providing us access to such a
wonderful and unique experience"
Ms. Donnelly, Home-School Liaison, Holy Family/St. Josephs School,
Dun Laoghaire
Next Step Fitness:
Certificate Awards Ceremony
Keeping Fit and Staying Fit!
The Next Step Fitness programme was
funded under the Healthy Ireland Fund
and supported by DLR Leisure. Young
people were offered passes to the
Loughlinstown Leisure Centre and 12-
week scheduled gym sessions with a
fitness instructor. They also had a talk on
nutrition. Those who took part reaped
the benefits from the sessions, both
physically and socially. Those Also pictured are Finn McGuirk, Gareth Watters and Brid
who completed the programme are O'Dwyer. Gareth will continue to link in with some of the these
pictured here with their certificates. young people to offer them personal development supports.Southside Travellers Action Group event
Southside Travellers Action Group are hosting an evening of Music, Stories and Dance, where you will
have an opportunity to engage, experience and celebrate Traveller and settled cultures in a spirit of fun,
peace and togetherness. It will be held in St Kieran’s Enterprise Centre, Furze Road, Sandyford on July
20th starting at 5:30 p.m. and finishing at 9:30 p.m. Featuring internationally renowned singer and
song writer, Tommy Sands, with Richie Kavanagh and other guests such as Davie Furey, Tommy Keyes,
Jason Flynn, Thomas Doran and Selina O’Leary.
There will be special guests on the
night, including a traditional Traveller Tinsmith
showcasing his work. Enjoy free ice cream and
come along to see what other surprises are in
store. If you would like to attend, please RSVP:
Mary McDonagh at
mary1@southsidetravellers.ie or telephone 01
295 7372.You can also read
