Community Development SICAP
Seminar: Connecting for Life Mid West: Are We Connected?
Venue: Thomond Park
Date: Thursday November 29th
Time: 9.30 to 4pm
Outline of the Day:
Registration from 8.45 am: Register early to get your choice of workshops as we will have 300 participants 9.30am
Welcome of Participants: Master of Ceremony (MC) and Chimers Choir
Opening Address: HSE & NOSP
Setting the context: Mark Sparling, Mental Health HSE Mid-West (MC)
Connecting for Life Mid West 2017-2020 Progress to date: Mary Kennedy, Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention,
HSE Key note speaker: Dr Sharon Lambert, Dept. of Applied Psychology, UCC
Coffee
Workshops: These workshops will be run twice and attendees will have the opportunity to attend two on the day, while registering people will be asked to choose their preferences. See below
Lunch & Thomond Park Museum tour
Afternoon Panel Discussion Theme: Continuing the Conversation and consider where do we go from here?
Closing of Seminar
More information at this link
What is SICAP?
SICAP in full is “Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme” and is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development and administered by POBAL.
Programme Aim
The aim of SICAP is to reduce poverty and promote social inclusion and equality in Ireland through supporting communities and individuals using community development approaches, engagement and collaboration
This programme will run from 2018 – 2022
Any group involved in the previous programme 2015-2017 will need to re-register for our new programme
SICAP now works under 2 Goals;
- GOAL 1: Supporting Communities
- GOAL 2: Supporting Individuals
Goal 1: Supporting Communities
To support communities and target groups to engage with relevant stakeholders in identifying and addressing social exclusion and equality issues, developing the capacity of Local Community Groups, and creating more sustainable communities.
Goal 2: Supporting Individuals
To support disadvantaged individuals to improve the quality of their lives through the provision of lifelong learning and labour market supports
Who is it for?
SICAP has specific ‘target’ groups to ensure it is a targeted and focused programme. Only people who are from one or more of these groups are eligible for support under the programme:
- Disadvantaged Children and Families
- People living in Disadvantaged Communities
- Disadvantaged Young People (aged 15 – 24)
- People with Disabilities
- Disadvantaged Women
- Roma
- Travellers
- Lone Parents
- The Disengaged from the Labour Market (Economically Inactive)
- Low Income Workers / Households
- The Unemployed
- New Communities
History of SICAP
From 1st April 2015 POBALs new COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Programme is called Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP).
Click here for SICAP Achievements in Clare for 2016
It aims to tackle poverty, social exclusion and long-term unemployment through local engagement and partnership between disadvantaged individuals, community organisations and public sector agencies.
It was rolled out on 1st April 2015 and will run until December 2017.
It is the successor programme to the outgoing Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP).
It is a national programme and following a public procurement process, contracts for the implementation of the new programme have been awarded.
Social inclusion programmes such as SICAP make a real difference to those in our communities that are suffering disadvantage.
SICAP works under 3 Goals;
- Goal 1: Empowering Disadvantaged Communities
- Goal 2: Lifelong Learning
- Goal 3: Employment
Goal 1 aims to empower disadvantaged communities and individuals to play a greater role with other stakeholders in addressing social inclusion and equality issues. It is underpinned by a community development approach and is in line with the emerging policy context which emphasises the importance of citizen engagement.
Goal 2 seeks to support individuals who are experiencing educational disadvantage to engage with and progress through life-long learning opportunities, using community development approaches. As a first step there is a recognition that people who have a low level of education or skills often need help in understanding what supports are available and what their various pathways into education and learning are.
Goal 3 is to support marginalised individuals who are not in employment and who do not necessarily fall within mainstream employment service provision, in moving closer to the labour market and progressing into employment.