Promoting Well Being

Community Development Training Programme

Funding has been secured from HSCB for a 3 –year Community Development Training Programme for Trust staff. The contract has been awarded to the Rural College, Derrynoid who designed and delivered a very successful Community Development training programme during 2005 -2008.

Basic Community Development Awareness training (half – 1 hour session)– is already available on request from your local Promoting Wellbeing Team

• Armagh & Dungannon – Jillian Cosgrove – 028 37 520576
• Craigavon & Banbridge – Miceal McParland – 028 38 311491
• Newry & Mourne – Fergal O’Brien – 028 308 34325

However, training is now also available at 2 further levels:

Community Development Training for Managers – a half –day session- 25 places per session

For an application form please click here

This half day session will cover areas such as:

• Introduction to work of Promoting Wellbeing Teams in each locality
• Community Development in a Policy Context and links with health improvement and PPI (service user involvement)
• Case study of benefits of working through a community development approach
• Commitment to action
• Highlighting Sources of support – internal and external

Community Development Specialist Training – 4 days – 15 places per locality and 15 places for Acute hospital staff

For an application form please click here

This programme will cover areas such as:

• Introduction to CD principles and good practice examples
• PPI & CD linking to consultation, participation and partnership
• Networking, Facilitation skills and techniques
• Leadership and champions – Action planning for the future & sources of support.