Gateway Mental Health Project: April 2023

Thursday 27 April 2023

Citizen's Information is a great resource for your needs

To look up any info you might seek, please click the link below and navigate your way through the menu

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/

Exchange House Ireland are an organisation working with residents of Dublin City

To find out more about who they are, what they do and if they can help you, click on the link below

https://www.exchangehouse.ie/about.php

BlindBoy meets again with psychologist Sharon Lambert

This time they discuss the Citizen's Assembly and its involvement in the tackling of Irish Drug Laws. To listen, click the link below or listen on Spotify.

https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/speaking-to-a-psychologist-about-drug-laws-in-ireland

Wednesday 26 April 2023

Only 10 days left until Darkness Into Light!!!

To learn more about this event, click on the link below!

https://www.darknessintolight.ie/

Fun Meet Up Happening in Dun Laoghaire's East Pier

Tuesday 25 April 2023

Sankalpa Exhibition Taking Place at The Recovery College!!!

Sankalpa Exhibition

In partnership with friends in Sankalpa, the Recovery College are hosting an art exhibition in the main foyer of the Nursing Building in DCU main campus (off Collins Avenue) on the 4th of May. The event will showcase stories of recovery from substance use & mental health through expressive arts and visualizations.

The exhibition will be open to the public throughout the day on the 4th of May with presentations taking place at 1pm and 5pm.

Third part of this great event with the Recovery College taking place soon!

Building Personal Worth And Connection

The Recovery College have now completed two out of three modules of their Erasmus project, as part of a Europe-wide project with the aim to use recovery education to empower and connect people with lived experiences of mental health and/or substance use issues. The first module was their Connect, Create, Participate course which you may have seen advertised. Through this course, participants worked together to create the key concepts for delivering a recovery education course in their community (as well as connecting to their own and each other's experiences and building community with each other). Participants then had the option to do facilitation training, in order to develop skills for delivering courses. Now, the RC have two of their lovely graduates, Wendy and Robert going to facilitate the course created in the first module, which will be called Building Personal Worth and Connection. The course will run on Friday mornings, from May 25th for 6 weeks, until June 30th. How exciting!

Trauma Informed Ballymuun

Trauma Informed Ballymun

The Recovery College are working with Trauma Informed Ballymun to deliver a ‘Trauma Informed Communities’ workshop twice over the coming month in Ballymun. These workshops are for anyone living or working in Ballymun and aim to generate conversation around community trauma specific to Ballymun and explore the future of what Ballymun residents see as ways towards building a trauma informed community in Ballymun.

Registration for this is being handled through Trauma Informed Ballymun. If you are a Ballymun resident or work in Ballymun, you can email roisin@ballymundtf.ie to register.

Menopause Course happening at The Recovery College

Menopause Course

The Recovery College have an exciting course coming up next month, the brainchild of Paula and Deborah, two lovely members of the RC team. This course will explore the journey of menopause for those interested in this interesting and challenging time. It will be facilitated by experts in menopause and mental health, and it will run for 4 weeks from May 23rd to June 18th.

You need to register for the course