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Month: May 2020

Cairde have launched a multilingual mobile friendly website that provides information on accessing health services

Thursday May 21, 2020
A multilingual mobile friendly website HealthConnect provides updated information on accessing health services during Covid-19 pandemic for migrant communities in Ireland.
  • What health services are available in Ireland, inc. GP, hospitals, maternity sexual health and mental health
  • How to access services during Covid pandemic?
  • General information about health system, incl. changes to medical card applications
  • Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Polish and Russian

HealthConnect has been developed by Cairde, an advocacy organisation working to improve ethnic minorities’ access to services in Ireland.

People who need more support can contact Cairde’s Health Information & Advocacy Centers by calling  (01) 855 2111 or (01) 8020785. We speak Arabic, English, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish.

Covid19 hotline for the Roma Community operates in Romanes and Romanian – 087 126 4606.

Conference announcements and call for abstracts for Critical Voices Network Conference in UCC.

Monday May 11, 2020

This year’s conference title is “CREATING SAFE SPACES IN MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES”. Although of course creating safe spaces is  particularly appropriate and relevant at this very moment, the title and theme was decided upon well before the corona virus outbreak. As you are no doubt aware, concerns continue to be expressed that mental health systems do not provide safe spaces for people in intense distress. Indeed, it is often the opposite, with people referring to experiences of de-humanisation, coercion and re-traumatisation. Acknowledging such concerns, the conference focuses on the importance of developing and providing safe spaces for people experiencing distress. The conference offers opportunities to examine:
• what we understand by safe spaces in mental health systems
• what makes it so difficult to offer safe spaces
• the increasing use of coercion and forced treatment to try and maintain people’s ‘safety’
• what safe spaces may look like and how these may be experienced by people in distress
• ways to support people in intense distress in spaces where they feel safe and respected
Please see below  the conference flyer and call for abstracts in the attached. We hope to see you again in November, and if not, then November 2021! We’ll keep you posted on developments. In the mean time, we look forward to abstracts in relation to the conference’s theme.
Please share with your own networks as appropriate. Thanks.
Regards
Lydia Sapouna and Harry Gijbels
Conference Organisers

Thoughts, Feelings Actions Course

Friday May 8, 2020