Polish Cultural and Social Association will hold an open information session about Medical Card and GP Visit Card. It will be facilitated by Cairde in the Polish language. The session will be the first of monthly meetings exploring access Irish health system as well as various aspects of health and well being.
Ciarde and the Bereavement Team of Temple St. Children’s University Hospital met on the 3rd of March to discuss how to increase cultural appropriateness and accessibility of hospital’s Bereavement Services to various ethnic minorities using the service.
After consulting with the Cairde’s Ethnic Minority Health Forum members, our clients and embassies Cairde gave feedback on the present hospital’s booklet on grief and grieving. Cairde also presented on how different ethnic and national communities deal with the loss of a child. African, Chinese, Polish and Roma perspectives were discussed. Recommendations were also given.
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Celebrate International Women’s in Dublin North Inner City:
Local & Global Women’s Fair
On Friday 5th March 9.45am – 12.45pm in Pavee Point, North Great Charles St (off Mountjoy Square), Dublin 1
9.45 Registration, Tea, Coffee, Food
10.20 Introduction and welcome
10.55 Workshops/activities
Also: Raffle/lucky dip
12.15 Presentation of outputs from workshop including circle dance and singing
Organised by The Local Global Women’s Partnership: Dublin Multi-Cultural Resource Centre, LYCS, AKIDWA, Dublin Adult Learning Centre, Diaspora Women’s Initiative (DWI), Cairde, Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland, SAOL Project, Hill St FRC, Roma Programme and Pavee Point.
New Cairde’s centre in Balbriggan is now open.
The Swine Flu Vaccination programme is now in its final phase, where Swine Flu vaccine is being made available to everyone through HSE Clinics nationwide.
Anyone in the target risk groups who has not yet been vaccinated is advised to come to a HSE clinic for their vaccine before March 31st. In addition, any members of the general public who have not yet been offered vaccine may now come to a HSE clinic for swine flu vaccine. The vaccine is free of charge for everyone, and if you get the vaccine from your GP, you should not be charged any fee.
Where can I get the Vaccine?
GP and HSE Vaccine Clinics, Book a Visit to a HSE Vaccine Clinic Choose your location from the list below to see the clinics in that area
A free seminar will be held in Dublin to mark, for the first time in Ireland, International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation and to provide a forum for discussion on work in Ireland and overseas to combat FGM.
The Seminar is being organised by Ireland’s National Plan of Action to Address Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Steering Committee, which Cairde is a part of.
Agenda:
Over 20 people from ethnic minorities in Dublin and various organisations took part in the Ethnic Minority Health Forum on Wednesday the 27th January 2010. The forum was called to open through welcomes and an introduction and history of the Ethnic Minority Health Forum.
Topics up for conversation on the day included; issues on what would the focus of EMHF be in 2010? Suggestions included; giving free medical talks, developing support groups for different ethnic minority groups and the need to strengthen information provision and to motivate and educate communities on their health entitlements.
Discussions took place on this been delivered through the creation of different working groups to focus on various issues, information campaigns to get to targeted people, through peer education so that people can bring back information to their local communities and through creating links with the Irish Congress of General Practitioners.
Other topics on the agenda included bereavement policy in Temple Street Children’s Hospital and the need for this service to be in an ethnic minority perspective. Other discussions were based around the improvement of Cairde’s website.
For information on the minutes of the meeting please email Junyu at email hidden; JavaScript is required
Community Health Workers positions (Community Employment Scheme) application is now closed.
On Sunday the 10th of January 2009 Polish community organized an event to collect donations for the prevention and early detection of cancer of young children.
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation for the 18th time in Poland and the 4th in Ireland collected money to help the youngest patients in Polish hospitals.
During the Dublin’s event the best musicians performed. In the evening celebrity presenters invited bids on the Great Orchestra’s items: passes to cinemas and theatres, artwork, the Polish ambassador’s tie and many more!
Participants could also get advice at information stoles. Cairde supports initiative and provided information about our services. www.wospdublin.org
Changes introduced in the new budget:
New social welfare rates can be found here.
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