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| Home | About Us | Adult and Community Education Extras | Management Team / Board | Video | Links Southside Travellers Action Group Ltd. a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital Contact Us: Unit 5, St. Kieran's Enterprise Centre, Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18 Email: info@ southsidetravellers.ie No: 335 043 Charity No: CHY 8518 |
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Welcome to our Integrated Programmes Page The programmes outlined here have emerged out of our 2010 - 2012 strategy "Building for the Future" are the result of increased internal and external programme integration. Supported by various partners and aim to add value to our already existing core programmes. For more information, contact Catherine Morley or the named person at the Resource Centre.
More Integrated Programmes Coming Soon The Squashy Couch - An Innovative Programme to Improve Services and Supports to Young Traveller Men supported by DLR Drugs Task Force and Dun Laoghaire VEC, starting in mid November.
Get Vocal: Our New Programme Focusing on the Needs of Older Travellers in Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown The Get Vocal programme is a new and exciting addition to the already well established programmes that are being delivered by Southside Travellers Action Group. Based on community development principles, the Get Vocal Programme will provide a space for older community members to Get Vocal about the issues that are affecting their lives on a daily basis and to come together to support each other in the face of these issues. This has not been done before in this area and we are very excited to support and learn from this group of Travellers. The Programme
Even though older Travellers are held in high esteem by their community, and are generally part of strong familial networks, it has been our experience (having delivered a number of social initiatives to older Travellers through our, Community Health and Wellbeing programme in 2009) that many older Travellers can still experience isolation. In particular older Travellers, owing to poor health status and low educational attainment may not have the capacity or confidence to come together to get vocal about issues affecting them. Although there are many older persons groups across the county who offer tremendous support to older people and even though many of the same issue affect older Travellers as do older settled people, Travellers remain very distant from these groups. As such, the establishment of a network for this group is a huge import and very new to the Dun Laoghaire /Rathdown region.
The overall aim of the Get Vocal programme is to carry out research into the profile, experiences and service needs of older Travellers in Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown, to document these profiles, experiences and needs and around this to develop a countywide strategy for this group. In addition, we will support the establishment and continued facilitation of a network or group where older Travellers can come together to begin to vocalise these concerns in a structured and supported environment and to develop self advocated responses to identified needs. Such a network has the added value of creating a space for older Travellers to come together socially and move beyond their immediate familial networks, to discuss issues, build new relationships and to support one another to find viable solutions to challenges that they face. The development of such a network is an exciting prospect. We hope that through this network older Travellers will not only increase their capacity and confidence to self advocate, but will become more involved in all of the programmes an offer within Southside Travellers Action Group. We look forward to enriching our organisation with their experience, knowledge and skills!! For more information, contact niamh@southsidetravellers.ie
"Our Gailles": Early Education Initiative
Everyone in the house agreed that this would have to be a programme that straddled our programmes and we put in place a project team that included our Education Programme Manager, our Children and Young People's Programme Manager, our newly designated Parent and Toddler facilitator and Parent Support Workers. Just one month later, our Board room was transformed into a children's play space and everyone in the Centre was enchanted by the sound of small children and their parents (and grand-parents) singing, Angela playing guitar and a litany of small voices shouting "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus". On May 25th 2010, Southside Travellers hosted its first annual Toddler Graduation ceremony and in September 2010, the current group will be entering pre-schools throughout the county and we will be embedding the pilot into our mainstream resource Centre programme - with the continued support of Southside Partnership and programme funding from For more information, contact alison@southsidetravellers.ie
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For more years than anyone in Southside Travellers cares to remember, Southside Travellers Action Group has named services and supports for young children and their parents as a key priority.