Phone
Email Address
Website URL
Location
The Old National School, Ardfoyle Avenue, Ballintemple, Cork City, Cork, T12 XDH2, Ireland
Describe the purpose and aim(s) of the organisation/voluntary group
SHEP is a Community Education & Development Project established in Ireland in 1974. SHEP in solidarity and partnership with others seeks to foster the wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and the wider world and to contribute to building a healthy, loving, socially just and sustainable way of living.
SHEP now has four main areas of work:
• Adult Education & Training (especially experiential group-work)
• Community Development Work
• Therapeutic & Counselling Services
• Advocacy for Systems & Policy Change
The Project increasingly is placing urgency on working out how to engage effectively with Climate, Bio-diversity loss and Social Justice emergencies, and anchor these as the context for all our work.
Learners most commonly worked with:
Lone parents
Men
Members of LGBTQI communities
Members of Traveller communities
Migrants
Older learners
People and/or their families living with addiction/in recovery
People who are unemployed
People who left school early
People with disabilities
People with experience of the prison system
People with mental health challenges
Refugees and/or people seeking international protection
Women
Women returning to the workplace
Programmes/Courses Offered
Civic & democratic engagement (eg. voting rights & awareness, legal rights courses)
Health and wellbeing programmes
Additional Programmes/Courses (not listed)
Training for Transformation; Advocacy skills; Reflective Practice; Community Tutor Training; Group Facilitation Training; Leadership; Participatory Methods; UCC Diploma Level 7 with ACE
Level of courses you offer
Non-accredited
Types of wraparound support provided
Mental health supports (e.g. counselling, or mental health awareness activities, support groups, resource, etc.)
Resources (digital library, lending schemes, books)
Approximate number of learners engaged with annually
200+