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BCR Project Evaluation Launch
The evaluation of the Building Community Resilience (BCR) Project was launched on December 15th 2021. Community Action Network has been coordinating the BCR project over the past 18 months. This project is an innovative response to community safety concerns in Dublin South Central. You can read Andrew Montague’s evaluation of the work so far. Click here…
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Intercultural Learning Programme
Pictured above with Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Hazel Choo, are the Intercultural Ambassadors group of the North East Inner City who came together to celebrate the completion of their intercultural learning programme. This is Phase One of an initiative to grow inter-culturalism in the North East Inner City. The group participated in a fourteen week learning…
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Power in Participation Project – The Right to Education
We are so proud to announce that ‘Power in Participation Project – The Right to Education’, a collaboration between Galway Traveller Movement, Community Action Network and Community Education NUIG, part funded by the Community Foundation and through CAN’s SSNO’s funding, has been awarded the Aontas Star Award 2021 in the Third Level Access and Community Engagement Category. Congratulations…
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Reflective Journey: What COVID is revealing about our lives, work & society
A safe online facilitated space for personal reflection and dialogue with people who experience or work to address inequality. The storm of COVID has amplified the inequalities we have known about for decades, and everyone is impacted. Our invitation is an invitation to learn from this and embrace the new possibilities of the present moment.…
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Reaching the Hardest to Reach
A wonderful online workshop held on December 16th ‘Reaching the Hard to Reach’ about how to draw young people away from drug dealing and antisocial behaviour. Peter Dorman of CAN speaks with those in this unique project, initiated by CAN as part of the Building Community Resilience project (also initiated by CAN). You can watch…
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Model Emergency Housing Legislation Launch
Today, the Open Society Foundations joined The Shift and the Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy NUIG, CAN and a coalition of human rights groups in unveiling comprehensive model emergency legislation (to download click here) to protect the right to housing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis and an accompanying…