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Chloe Ní Mháille

Case Study

Chloe Ní Mháille

Bainisteoir ar Chomhar Caomhán Teo

Bachelor of Social Science in Community & Youth Work, 2020, Maynooth University

My journey to Inis Oírr began as a student on placement.  My current and first job is as the Community Development Officer and Manager of Comhar Caomhán Teo, the island co-operative.  Inis Oírr the smallest of the three Aran Islands is in the Gaeltacht so we work through Irish.  

My work is diverse and can include advocacy, negotiating, trading, social media, tourism, public relations, renewable energy, sustainable living, promotion and preservation of the Irish language.

My Community Work education has helped me to bring a new dynamic to a rural Gaeltacht Island. I am determined to use the skills I learned in class and on placement to positively impact rural Ireland. I am passionate about using a community work approach to achieve social justice and while this is challenging I strive to do it in my work.

For anyone interested in working as a community worker I recommend professional community work education.  Without my professional training I would not be emotionally or socially equipped for the front line of serving the communities I work in.  In addition to community work, modules such as social analysis and group work are crucial to learning how to work with groups, to understand yourself and your relationship to the communities you work with. The fieldwork placements allow you to develop the skills needed to work as a community worker.

Being a member of Community Work Ireland and of the International Association for Community Development have opened my heart to the national and international scale of the impact we can have when we work together from grass roots to glass ceilings for a more just and equal world.

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Pat Gallagher

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Pat Gallagher

County Manager/Chief Executive, Westmeath County Council

Higher Diploma in Community Work, 1985, Maynooth University

My community work education in Maynooth helped me build on previous voluntary involvement in community and youth work, challenging me to develop the knowledge, skills, values and experience necessary to work professionally in such roles.

Connecting my work in the community with the need to address wider social and policy issues led me into elected politics at local and national level at a time of great social change.

My first job after graduation from 1985 – 1992 was manager of the Tullamore Community Training Workshop. I successfully stood for election to the County Council and UDC during the 1990s.  I served as an elected member of Dáil Éireann from 1992 – 1997 and Seanad Éireann 1997 – 1999.  A reform of local government in the late 1990s placed community and enterprise development and social inclusion firmly within its remit. I was recruited to lead such work in Westmeath, including developing public participation in local governance. I then got opportunities to widen and develop my career in local government as County Manager in 3 counties. My constant mantra to staff is that we have the responsibility and opportunity to make a positive difference to the everyday lives of the people and communities we serve through our work.

A professional community work education will challenge and help you develop the knowledge, skills, values and experience necessary for working in community work and community development and give you a recognised accredited professional qualification of relevance in a number of areas.  It has stood me in good stead in a variety of roles including the local and national political ones mentioned above.   It can also give you an interest in further education which I undertook including through a Doctorate in Governance in Queens University, Belfast.

 

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Rachel Doyle

Case Study

Rachel Doyle

Joint National Co-ordinator Community Work Ireland

Higher Diploma in Community and Youth Work, 1994, Maynooth University

My job as joint national coordinator of CWI involves work in a wide variety of settings and on a broad number of themes, issues and policies from responding to the Covid crisis to the current challenges in relation to Ukraine, international protection, responding to the emergence of the far right in Ireland and developing responses to the climate crisis – all from a community work perspective.

It provides me with a bird’s eye view of these and may other issues and concerns faced by communities and community workers working with them including poverty, racism, social exclusion and discrimination on a range of grounds.

 

Since graduating from Maynooth I have worked as the first Co-ordinator of Galway Travellers Movement, as Co-ordinator of the National Traveller Women’s Forum and as Head of Development and Outreach with the National Women’s Council. All of these roles leave me in no doubt that standards and professional education are extremely important to equip and support community workers and consequently the communities they work with to meet the complex and varied challenges they face.

 

My work is informed by the community work values which remain a core element of the programme at MU.  Working in solidarity and collaboration with communities and community organisations has always been important for my practice, never more so than in my current role. I strive to work collaboratively and ensure that our responses are based on the values of human rights, equality, collectivity, empowerment, participation and social justice.

 

I strongly recommend professional community work education.  It gave me many things including a clear analysis of the structural causes of poverty, inequality and social exclusion, and a space to reflect on how the current challenges facing society impact on marginalised communities.  I had first-hand experience of placements with professional community workers and opportunities to develop an analysis of the issues facing communities including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, disablism and of how these interact. I also connected with others and made many friends and contacts with those sharing my values and commitments.

 

The skills and analysis gained through professional education are transferrable whether you are working in a community development setting, in a state agency, academic setting or government department, what you learn through community development education will undoubtedly stand to you.

 

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Guidance on Climate Justice Education and Practice in AIEB Endorsed Programmes

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AIEB has developed a resource to support providers of endorsed community work education programmes or those seeking endorsement to embed a climate justice approach in community work education and training programmes.

This guidance has been developed in consultation with community work educators and community work practitioners working on the issue. This guidance demonstrates AIEB’s ongoing commitment to providing those involved in the education field with advice aimed at enhancing the overall quality of community work education and training and addressing the key issues of the day.

The overarching aim of this guidance is to support students to develop structural understanding of climate injustice that:

  • situates it within the historical and present-day context of capitalist economic development, colonialism and consumerism;
  • addresses how it intersects with other forms of injustice, inequality and oppression in Ireland and globally.

In addressing climate and biodiversity crises, community workers are not required to be climate science experts or develop a whole new set of competencies. The central concern of community work is to create the conditions for participation and empowerment of communities in pursuit of social justice, equality and human rights.

Download the AIEB Climate Justice Guidance PDF

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All Ireland Standards for Community Work

The All Ireland Standards for Community Work were published by AIEB in 2016 following a review of the document Towards Standards for Quality Community Work to provide the foundation and guiding framework for community development in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Download the All Ireland Standards for Community Work

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