Delivering a Literacy Friendly Service
The session aims to:
* Explain what literacy is, its causes, effects and the extent of literacy issues
* Explore how you identify and respond in a sensitive way and deliver a literacy-friendly service
* Identify practical strategies to communicate more clearly
Learn and apply some practical plain English guidelines in your work
* Encourage discussion, participation, and brainstorming of other effective ways to communicate
Training will take place from 10am to 1pm,

Leitrim, 26th September
Athlone, 16th October
Louth, 22nd October
Dublin, 5th November
Tipperary, 12th November

Communications and Advocacy
Effective communication is essential to any advocacy campaign. Promoting your message across several media – print, radio, tv and online – at local and national level will get your message out there and draw the attention of policy makers and the public to what you are trying to achieve.

Training will take place from 2pm to 4pm

Leitrim, 26th September
Athlone, 16th October
Tipperary, 12th November

Facilitation Skills
As membership of PPNs grows, it is more important than ever that those involved have the key skills required to ensure that their membership feels heard and understood, that meetings add value to the functioning of the PPN and that consultations deliver a clear mandate for the PPN to work from.

To achieve this, those representing the PPNs or other organisations / colleges need to have good facilitation skills.

Training will take place from 2pm to 4pm.

Louth, 22nd October
Dublin, 5th November

Training is subject to numbers. Training is free but booking is essential.

More information is available by contacting Colette Bennett or Eamon Murphy at Social Justice Ireland
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