Training Programmes
We offer a range of training programmes from health awareness, to Good Relations, to programmes tailored to the workplace:
Health Promotion
Good Relations
Workplace Training
Health Promotion
We deliver a range of health awareness programmes that have been developed in partnership with experts and designed to further the Investing for Health Agenda. The programmes are effective because the content and delivery are shaped by an understanding of the reality of people’s lives.
All our health awareness programmes are delivered by our professionally trained and accredited Community Facilitators, also known as peer-educators. The Facilitators who deliver Community Direct’s health awareness programmes share similar life experiences to the groups that statutory and voluntary organisations often find most difficult to target and serve; hard to reach groups in disadvantaged areas’.
Programmes developed by Community Direct, currently available for delivery to local communities across Northern Ireland are as follows. Click on the links to download more information:
Good Relations Programmes
Community Direct believes that peace building and improved community relations are best achieved not by focusing directly on peace building per se, but rather by enabling traditionally hostile communities to understand, in a non judgemental way, what they share rather than what divides them. Essentially, it’s an approach that acknowledges the need for peace, but sees its realisation arising from communities acquiring a growing awareness of their shared values, their shared problems and the need for political solutions to these problems. Trust, which is the foundation stone of peace, will hopefully follow. To this end, we have compiled three training courses for participants from socially disadvantaged areas/communities. The courses are supported by detailed resource packs. They can be delivered as a Good Relations Programme consisting of all three courses or each course can be used on a ‘stand alone’ basis. All the courses have been carefully designed to attract cross community involvement. The three courses are: Course One: Good Relations Course Two: Common Experiences: Shared Solutions Course Three: Grassroots Lobbying - A Cross Community Approach For more information contact us on 028 9023 0212 or email communitydirect@wrda.net (top of page)
Workplace Training
We offer a range of training designed specifically for the workplace including our Bridging the Language Gap workshop. The world is opening up, and so is Northern Ireland. Cheaper transport makes Prague as reachable as Portrush. Northern Ireland people are finding more and more they are sharing workplaces with people from other parts of Europe and, indeed, from other parts of the world. It is a time of real opportunity, but there are challenges. Many of the new arrivals do not speak English as a first language and therefore integration – is sometimes difficult. How do we address the language gap and the difficulties arising from it? There’s no single solution but organisations and agencies can help by appropriate training. We’ve developed an innovative programme entitled ‘Bridging the Language Gap’. This training programme is aimed primarily at personnel who may regularly encounter customers and service users whose English is limited. It aims to equip such personnel with some additional skills that will help facilitate their contacts with non native speakers - and that must be to everybody’s advantage. To download a brochure on our Bridging the Language Gap Workshop click here For more information on our workplace training please contact us on 028 9023 0212 (top of page) |