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Title: Healthy Minds


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CRSIs 7th Annual Joint Conference with
UCC Lives less known
  • Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
    Project.
  • Funded under the THU HSE South
  • HSE South,
  • Old Library Building,
  • St. Marys Road,
  • Cork,
  • Phone John 087 7590050/Helen 087 7592464
  • Email John.walsh2_at_hse.ie

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HSE South Traveller Health Unit
  • Task Force Report on the Traveller Community 1995
  • Traveller Health Units (THU) were established in
    response
  • Local and Regional Level to promote
    collaboration and partnership Cork/Kerry
  • THU works in partnership with local Traveller
    organisations
  • Using a community development approach and
    recognising the importance of the social
    determinants of health
  • 2010 All Ireland Traveller Health Study (Our
    Geels)

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Traveller Health Unit
  • Employment of Travellers as Community Health
    Workers
  • Traveller Led Community Development organisations
    5 in Cork/Kerry
  • Interagency work on Health and Accommodation
  • Health Impact Assessments (HIA) on development of
    Halting sites
  • Joint work with other departments in the HSE

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Culturally Appropriate Service Provision
  • AITHS 2010 showed that Discrimination is key
    barrier to improvement of the health status of
    the Traveller community
  • THU recognises the importance of promoting
    Traveller culture
  • Commitment to an inclusive approach
  • Recognition that all cultures have different
    social positions
  • A system of data collection to map all ethnic
    groups
  • Contact Deirdre OReilly THU Co-ordinator
    087 9919792

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • In a country with already high suicide rates -
    fifth highest in Europe for youth suicide
    according to the National Office for Suicide,
    four times more men take their own life that our
    nearest neighbours in the UK. The Public Health
    Agency (PHA) noted in their research that
    Travellers experience worse mental health and a
    higher rate of suicide than the settled community
    (ROI data only)1. The All Ireland Traveller
    health Study reported that the suicide rate in
    male Travellers is a statistically significant
    6.6 times higher than in the general population

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental Health Status of Travellers in Ireland
  • All Ireland Traveller Health Study 2010 gives us
    the most up to date information about the mental
    health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • The study explored
  • How many Travellers there are in Ireland and how
    old they are
  • How is Travellers health
  • What affects Travellers health

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental Health Status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Key findings of the study include
  • Participation rate of 80 - as a result of
    extensive contribution of Travellers, Traveller
    organisations and networks
  • Traveller population 40,129 on IOI
  • Average family size is 4
  • Age profile
  • 42 of Travellers under 15 years compared to 21
    of wider population
  • 63 of Travellers under 25 years compared to 35
    of wider population

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • 3 of Travellers are aged 65 years and over
    compared with 13 of wider population
  • Life expectancy Traveller men can expect to
    live to 62 years15 years less than a settled
    Irish man (no improvements in the health of
    Traveller men since 1987) Traveller women can
    expect to live to 70 years12 years less than a
    settled Irish woman
  • Suicide 6 times higher the rate of the wider
    population and accounts for 11 of Traveller
    deaths

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Causes of death - compared to the wider
    population Travellers have a higher rate of death
    from lung chest diseases and heart diseases and
    strokes
  • Mental health 2 in every 5 (40) adult
    Travellers say their mental health was never good
    in the past 30 days 1 in 4 (25) of Travellers
    strongly disagree that most people can be
    trusted

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Education only 6 of male Travellers and 5 of
    female Travellers have completed their leaving
    cert
  • Employment only 5 of male Travellers and 4 of
    female Travellers have jobs
  • Lifestyle 66.3 of Travellers said illicit drug
    use is a problem in the community 31 said that
    price is a factor which prevents them to eat
    healthily overall 15 higher rate of smoking
    compared to wider population

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Discrimination many Travellers said
    discrimination affects how they live their lives
    60 in schools, 50 in work, 60 housing, 40
    getting healthcare
  • Health services most commonly used services
    included GP, Community Welfare Officer, Dental
    Services, Public Health Nurse barriers to using
    health services included waiting, shame/
    embarrassment, lack of information.
  • Religion, identity and culture were ranked as
    very important by nearly 90 of those who
    participated

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Travellers are particularly affected by poor
    mental health and suicide
  • The suicide rate is much higher than the general
    population
  • Traveller men are 7 times more likely to die by
    suicide than a settled Irish man
  • Traveller women are 5 times more likely to die by
    suicide than a settled Irish woman

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Mental health status of Travellers in Ireland
  • Mainly Traveller men take their lives by suicide
  • Suicide is a growing phenomenon within the
    Traveller community
  • There is a stigma in Ireland around suicide and
    this relates to Travellers also
  • Travellers are a high risk group to suicide as
    they fare poorly on every indicator used to
    measure socio-economic status, health,
    accommodation, education and employment

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • At a local level, due to concern after a
    significant number of suicides in the Traveller
    community in Cork city county, the Traveller
    health unit (HSE South), in partnership with
    Traveller organizations, identified the need to
    establish a mental health project to respond to
    the needs and concerns of the Traveller
    community. In May 2010, Healthy Minds was
    established to offer support and information to
    members of the Traveller community.

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Healthy Minds Traveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • The Traveller Health Unit has funded the Healthy
    Minds project since 2010. The project has been
    managed and supported by Cork North Community
    Department Dept.. and a multidisciplinary
    steering group membership includes TVG and CTWN,
    THU Coordinator, Harbour Counselling, Cork North
    Community work department and HSE Mental Health
    services. Project employs Project Coordinator
    fulltime and part time TCHW
  • The project was initially funded as a three year
    pilot covering specific geographic areas of Cork
    City. An evaluation process has been established
    to document and analyse the work and make
    recommendations for future work to address the
    mental health needs of Traveller community

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project.
  • What the Healthy Minds project is providing
  • To work with existing services in Cork city to
    ensure that the services delivered to Travellers
    will be appropriate to their needs culture.
  • To work closely with the Traveller community so
    that we are aware of the needs of Travellers and
    to ensure that their needs regarding mental
    health support will be meet.
  • To provide information support to members of
    the Traveller community to ensure a greater
    awareness of how to access existing services will
    evolve.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
project.
  • To offer training to Travellers which will enable
    participants to provide peer support within their
    own community.
  • To provide information support regarding
    suicide, mental health, positive well being
    bereavement through suicide.
  • To work closely with the HSE to highlight issues
    such as lack of services or blockage within the
    system that may inhibit Travellers entering into
    services and how best to address the problems.
  • To link with HSE services in addressing these
    issues in partnership.

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Healthy MindsHow do we link
  • Link in with mental health services thru Cork
    North Mental Health
  • Link through the mapping of services joint work
  • Can come and talk to workers- on our work and the
    best way to link in
  • Offer Cultural awareness training

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
project.
  • We also offer a one to one confidential service
    offering support, advice, referrals and
    information to individuals, family members and
    other services.
  • If an individual needs we can contact other
    services and key workers on behalf of
    individuals .i.e. social workers,
    probation/prison/GPs, mental health services
    etc.
  • To ensure that mental health information is
    available to Travellers as part of broader health
    checks. That information is widely available
    within the community i.e. annual fairs, markets
    place, soccer tournaments and other events where
    Travellers meet and socialize.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
project.
  • On-going site visit and community groups visit to
    build up a working relationship with members of
    the Traveller community.
  • Make visit to both Prison and Hospital to offer
    support and information.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Some of the Issues presenting to the Traveller
    Healthy Minds project are
  • Addictions
  • People entering/exiting HSE Mental Health
    Services
  • Suicide ideation.
  • Impact of suicide on family/community.
  • Depression, anxiety and PTSD.
  • Homelessness
  • Sexuality
  • Abusive relationship/ Domestic violence
  • Impact of feuding
  • Sexual abuse/ impact of residing in industrial
    schools.
  • People entering/exiting prison services

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Brief summary of activities of project
  • Outreach and one to one work It is estimated
    that the project has engaged with over 500
    Travellers. At least 78 Travellers have accessed
    the one to one supports (41 male 37 female) up to
    2013. This does not include additional support to
    family members on an ongoing basis. This support
    has covered a wide range of issues- bereavement,
    addiction, unemployment, sexuality, low self
    esteem and anxiety, trauma, accommodation/
    homelessness, domestic violence, conflict etc.
    This work includes advocacy and ongoing referrals
    to a range of services,. A significant amount of
    advocacy has taken place with a wide range of
    service

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Survey
  • HM Completed a survey amongst Travellers in
    Cork regarding their experience of mental health
    and mental health services. 77 surveys were
    completes 34 men and 43 women. The survey showed
    evidence of very positive feedback on work of
    project.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Engagement with agencies
  • Wide engagement with voluntary and statutory
    services providers to raise awareness and
    facilitate referrals. New initiatives in
    development intersectoral collaboration between
    CAMHs (Child and Adolescent Mental Health
    Services), HM, Cois Ceim/SHEP Social Health
    Education Project to support to family bereaved
    by suicide.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • A brief description of some of the work
    provided
  • John Walsh Traveller Mental Health Co-ordinator.
  • I offer one to one support, in this I provide
    information on services, an assessment that
    ensures that the individuals are referred to
    appropriate services.
  • Offer ongoing support whilst entering and exiting
    services.
  • I provide advocacy work, provide information,
    support and act as link person when an individual
    is linked with social work department, mental
    health services, prison/probation etc.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Develop links with services and make
    recommendation on best practices on how to engage
    with members of the Traveller community.
  • To link in with other services/organisations to
    develop policy/guidelines on how to address the
    mental health needs of the Traveller community.
  • To organise or provide workshops on mental health
    issues to members of the Traveller community.
  • To ensure that the learning from our work in
    Cork is shared with Traveller organisation
    national, in turn to better the response of the
    mental health needs of the Traveller community in
    Ireland.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Helen OSullivan- Community Health Worker
  • I have delivered a number of workshops such as,
    Being well, Peer support training, Let someone
    know "and SafeTALK training.  
  • I hope to receive training in Mind your Head.
    This training will enable me and Caroline Bernard
    from TVG to present mental health awareness
    training to young people. 
  • I am a Safe Talker Trainer have delivered same
    to settled and Traveller Community
  • Going forward I would like to see some of the
    women in the groups become SafeTALK trainers. 
  • I worked on a CD project with TVG and also acted
    and did the voice over in a short animation last
    year on mental health. 

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Group Work
  • This includes specific group work in relation to
    positive health and well being, information on
    mental health, facilitated discussions on issues
    and concerns, healthy eating activities and
    development of posters and materials promoting
    positive mental health. Aprox 50 Travellers have
    engaged with group activities undertaken by
    project. Also through the Let someone know
    project work carried out with young women group
    issues identified included body image,
    pressure of appearance, post natal depression and
    bullying, group designed posters around these
    themes.

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • Some of the Traveller groups the project has
    engaged with Meelagh Traveller womens group.
    Farranree womens group, Blackpool womens group,
    Spring lane womens group, Spring lane mens
    group, Fairhill mens group, Mahon womens group
    St Anthonys Park

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Healthy MindsTraveller Suicide Mental Health
Project
  • I attend the Health Meetings in TVG. This allows
    everyone to give an update of the work their
    doing. I find it useful as it ensures there is no
    duplication of anyone's work.
  • Recently I have asked to shadow some of the
    Community Health Care workers in TVG so I can
    meet with their groups that I may not have met
    before and let them know more about Healthy
    Minds.
  • Groups I have worked with are the Faranree
    womens group, the Springlane young girls group,
    the Meelagh young girls group and the Togher
    womens group.  
  • This year I hope to work with a young girls group
    in both Meelagh and Springlane again.

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HSE South, Old Library Building, St. Marys Road,
Cork. Phone John 087 7590050 or Helen 087
7592464 or Eleanor 087 6599485 Email
john.walsh2_at_hse.ie.
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Cork Travellers Womens Network
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Our key work is in the areas of
  • Cork Traveller Womens Network is a community
    development organisation run by Traveller women
    and working for the rights of Travellers across
    Cork City.
  • Community development promotion of leadership
    for Traveller women
  • Promote Traveller Health responding to findings
    of All Ireland Traveller Health Study
  • Advocacy around issued affecting Travellers
    particularly health and accommodation
  • Supporting local Traveller Womens groups
  • Promotion of Traveller Culture
  • Promoting more equitable access to services for
    Travellers

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Our team
  • Voluntary management committee project
    volunteers
  • Project Co-ordinator
  • Outreach development workers (2)
  • Development worker Meelagh project
  • Project administrator
  • (All staff are part time)

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Cork Travellers Womens Network
  • CTWN are led by the Traveller community who we
    engage with through our management through
    their active participation in our projects.
  • The community define the issues and prioritise
    our work - collective decision making
    accountability
  • We deliver service directly and in partnership
    with key agencies.
  • Also support key initiatives of the Traveller
    Health Unit Healthy Minds Project, Traveller
    Foster care Initiative, Traveller Cultural
    Awareness Training Initiative, and others
  • We also advocate for social change and more
    equitable service provision
  • Funded by the HSE

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Traveller Visibility Group
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Background Information about the Traveller
Visibility Group (TVG)
  • The TVG is a Traveller-led Cork based
    organisation, which works within the philosophy
    and ethos of the National Community Development
    Programme. The TVG brings together Travellers and
    settled people in solidarity, to facilitate
    community development work within the Travelling
    Community.

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Background information on TVG
  • The Traveller Visibility Group recognises
    Travellers as a nomadic ethnic group with its own
    distinct culture and lifestyle.
  • We were formed in 1992 by a group of Traveller
    women concerned with the issues facing Travellers
    in Cork.
  • The absence at that time of any community
    development work to facilitate Travellers in
    identifying and addressing these issues was one
    of concern.

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Background information on TVG
  • Our work is based on the findings of research we
    commissioned in 1993, which was carried out by
    the Social Policy and Research Unit of University
    College Cork. This research was published and
    entitled
  • Making Travellers Visible, an account of the
    lived experience of Travellers in Cork an
    examination of the services and unmet needs in
    Cork.
  • Our catchment area is Cork City and the suburban
    areas near the city

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Mission Statement of the Traveller Visibility
GroupTo work with Travellers in Cork towards
achieving real change and improvement in their
lives
  • Principles of the TVG
  • Anti-racist and anti-sexist work practices be
    implemented in all programmes
  • Participation, partnership and empowerment the
    core elements of community development
  • Starting from where the Travellers are at and
    passing on skills
  • Seeing the value of working through a development
    process with people being as important as
    completing the task

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Aims of the TVG
  • Continue to promote Travellers as a nomadic
    ethnic group, with its own distinctive culture
    and lifestyles.
  • Continue to promote Traveller self-determination
    and empowerment (enabling Travellers to make
    decisions and work in a collective way to bring
    about real change in their lives).
  • Continue to work for real change and improvement
    in Travellers lives including the areas of
    education, accommodation, health, and employment
    / work and rights.
  • To challenge discrimination and racism against
    Travellers.
  • Continue to ensure the inclusion of Traveller
    issues and resource the real participation of
    Travellers in policy decisions and practices that
    affect their lives.

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Aims of TVG
  • Develop a suitable, well-resourced Travellers
    Centre and Crèche.
  • Develop the TVG's management, administrative and
    staff structures and procedures.
  • Promote mutual understanding, acceptance and
    support between Travellers and others in Irish
    Society
  • Develop network links locally, regionally and
    nationally.
  • Carry out research on the circumstances of
    Travellers in Cork and contribute to national
    research, which will inform the TVG's work

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The Team TVG consists of
  • Voluntary Broad of management
  • Project coordinator
  • Administration
  • Community Employment Workers
  • Goras Community Crèche
  • Drugs and Alcohol Project
  • Health Development Team

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Community Health programme
  • TVG health team consists of
  • Health Coordinator
  • 3 Community Development Workers
  • (2 job share and 1 full time)
  • 4 part-time Traveller Community Health Workers

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Community Health Programme
  • Community Development workers
  • support established groups in the Traveller
    community which consist of both men and women
  • They provide workshops, training and activities
    for the groups on an on-going basis to address
    their needs. This can include the following wood
    work, computing and IT skills, committee skills,
    employment, workshops on health related topics,
    Driver Theory sessions, cooking etc.

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Community Health Programme.
  • They also provide one to one support to families
    to help address individual needs.
  • They furthermore support families at Estate
    Management meetings, attend sub-committees
    locally and regionally to represent the TVG and
    the needs of the Traveller Community. Their
    working role brief is also health focused.

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Community Health Programme.
  • Traveller Community Health Workers are
  • from the Traveller Community and they peer
    support their community to access health
    services.
  • They are a link for services also to the
    community.
  • They are based across the city with 2 on the
    North side covering St Anthonys Park,
    Springlane, Farranree/ Fairhill, The Glen,
    Blackpool and Mayfield areas, and 2 on the South
    side covering the Straight Rd, Meelagh, Mahon,
    Douglas, Hazelwood Grove, Ballincollig.

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Community Health Programme.
  • They are trained in a number of health promotion
    areas so they can deliver training to their
    community around health related needs. These
    include, walking groups facilitation, cook it
    and being well programmes, sexual health, child
    safety and child protection.
  • They provide one to one outreach support to the
    community and help individuals to access
    services, as well as providing information to
    services about the Traveller Community.
  • They also represent the TVG and the Traveller
    Community at local and regional committees.

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Drugs Alcohol Programme
  • TVG Drugs projects consists of a full time Drugs
    and Alcohol Support Worker and a part time CE
    worker who supports the project.
  • The support Worker works in conjunction with the
    Local Drugs Task Force and works with people in
    the Traveller Community specifically around the
    issue of Drugs and Alcohol. She provides 1 to 1
    support, some group work and also information
    sessions to community services.

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Drugs and Alcohol Programme
  • Ongoing support to Traveller families who
    experiencing difficulties with drugs and
    alcohol misused
  • Build up referral cases to mainstream services.
  • Provide the community with access information on
    these issues
  • Build up a bank of data and resource material for
    the centre library
  • Continue to work with the existing clients
  • Build a strong subcommittee to support the
    community drugs programme

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TVG Community Crèche
  • The crèche team consist of Crèche Manager, Team
    Leader and 4 childcare assistant all who are all
    women from the Traveller community support
    through community employment scheme
  • We continued to developed and support training
    opportunities for Travellers as childcare
    workers.
  • We access equality /diversity training and
    Traveller culture Awareness training for all
    crèche staff.
  • We are opened from 930am to 5pm Monday to
    Thursday and 930am to 1pm Friday.
  • We continue to prioritise majority of childcare
    places to Traveller community we also offer a
    number of limited places available to the wider
    community.

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Traveller Cultural Awareness Training Initiative
(TCAT)
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TCAT
  • Community led training in Traveller culture and
    issues affecting the community
  • Aims to support culturally competent service
    provision and challenge stereotypes
  • Traveller women completed Training for Trainers
    course and deliver bespoke sessions to key
    agencies
  • Since late 2012, TCAT has delivered training to a
    wide range of services e.g. social workers,
    foster care workers, speech and language
    therapists etc, Gardai, council Traveller
    accommodation unit, Probation, Schools etc
  • Co-ordinated by Traveller orgs (incl. VTWN TVG)
    supported by the THU and HSE Health Promotion

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An overview of issues affecting the Traveller
community
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Overview
  • Background to Traveller culture and identity in
    Ireland
  • Public Policy towards Travellers
  • A snapshot of Traveller health

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Background to Travellers in Ireland
  • Travellers are
  • a small indigenous minority group that has
    been part of Irish society for centuries. They
    have a value system, language, customs and
    traditions, which make them an identifiable group
    both to themselves and to others. Their
    distinctive lifestyle and culture, based on a
    nomadic tradition, sets them apart from the
    general population. (AITHS 2010)

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Background to Travellers in Ireland.
  • 29,000 36,000 Travellers in ROI, 1 of
    population
  • 600 Traveller families in Cork city
  • Travellers fare poorly on every indicator used to
    measure socio-economic status health,
    accommodation, education and employment
  • Travellers experience high levels of racism and
    discrimination

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Background to Travellers in Ireland.
  • Traveller experience of low social status and
    exclusion, which can prevent them from
    participating in society as equals is often
    aggravated by hostility and misconceptions of
    people towards them (Helleiner 2000, AITHS
    20109)

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Myths and Realities
  • Travellers are not settled people pushed off
    their lands during various land clearances in the
    past few hundred years
  • References to a group identified as similar to
    present day Travellers as far back as 5th Century
    BC

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Myths Realities
  • Travellers have their own culture key features
    are nomadism, family, the importance of extended
    family, economic activity and faith
  • One cannot become a Traveller one has to be born
    into the Traveller community
  • Travellers have their own language Cant, Gammon
  • Settled Travellers versus Travellers

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Public policy towards Travellers
  • Assimilation Phase (1963-1983) Report of the
    Commission on Itinerancy
  • Travellers (Itinerants) are social misfits and
    deviants
  • Led by priests, social workers and teachers
  • Settled people know what is best for Travellers
  • Travellers should be helped conform to normal
    way of life!
  • No recognition of Travellers culture and identity
    or discrimination experienced by them

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Public policy towards Travellers
  • Intercultural Phase (1990 present) Report of
    the Task Force on the Traveller Community (1995)
  • First official report to address Traveller issues
    from a human rights perspective
  • Recognises the role of Traveller organisations
    to participate in decision-making processes that
    impact on the Traveller community
  • Traveller Accommodation Act, Traveller Health
    Strategy, Education Strategy

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Public policy towards Travellers
  • 2000 Equal Status Act
  • Makes discrimination illegal and names 9 legal
    equality grounds (including membership of the
    Traveller Community) under which a complaint of
    discrimination can be made
  • 2002 Trespass Act
  • Trespass on public or private land a criminal
    offence
  • Punishable by jail sentence, fine or confiscation
    of property
  • Travellers living on roadside are criminalised

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A snap shot of the community.
  • 4 out of 10 Traveller under 15 years (compared
    with 2 out of 10 wider population) 6 out of 10
    under 25 (compared with 3 out of 10 wider
    population
  • Only 3 of Travellers are aged 65 years and over
    (compared with 13 of wider population)
  • Life expectancy Traveller men can expect to
    live to 62 years15 years less than a settled
    Irish man (no improvements in the health of
    Traveller men since 1987) Traveller women can
    expect to live to 70 years12 years less than a
    settled Irish woman
  • Infant mortality - A Traveller baby born in
    Ireland is 3.6 times more likely to die than that
    of a settled Irish family

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A snap shot of the community.
  • Health services
  • most commonly used services included GP,
    Community Welfare Officer, Dental Services,
    Public Health Nurse barriers to using health
    services included waiting, shame/ embarrassment,
    lack of information.
  • Health Information
  • 82.7 of Travellers interviewed said they got
    their health information/advice from Traveller
    community health workers and the Traveller
    organisations

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Equality?
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On going challenges
  • No ethic identifier, no consistent way of
    identifying Travellers within all state
    services, no real true picture of Travellers
    take-up of services
  • Huge gap in data analysis
  • Lack of real cooperation between services on a
    more effective deliver of services to the
    community

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On going challenges
  • Lack of Traveller specific accommodation ,crisis
    in private rented sector
  • Uncertainty in community voluntary sector,
    funding cuts . A rode back on Traveller
    infrastructure .i.e.
  • Traveller education has experienced a
    disproportionate cut in the last numbers of years
    and this has led to dismantling of direct
    education supports to the community .

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