Course Listing April 2010

Enrolment Day: Monday 12^th April 2010

Course	Day	Date	Time	No. of Weeks
Reiki 1	Monday	26/04/10	9.30 - 11.30	6
Reiki 2	Monday	26/04/10	12.00 - 2.00	6
Basic Computers	Monday	26/04/10	10.30 - 12.30	6
Craft Networking	Monday	26/04/10	10.00 - 12.00	6
Meditation	Tuesday	27/04/10	7.00 - 9.00 pm	6
Bach Flowers	Wednesday	28/04/10	10.30 - 12.30	6
Internet + Email	Wednesday	28/04/10	10.30- 12.30	6

**All the courses above are dependant on sufficient numbers of partipants.

The enrolment day for these classes will be Monday 25th January 2010 from 9:30am - 4:00pm.

Course	Day	Date	Time	No. of Weeks
Reiki 1	Monday	08/02/10	9.30 - 11.30	6
Reiki 2	Monday	08/02/10	12.00 - 2.00	6
Reiki 3	Monday	08/02/10	2.00 - 4.00	6
Introduction to Computers	Monday	08/02/10	10.30 - 12.30	6
Craft Networking	Monday	08/02/10	10.00 - 12.00	6
Doll Making	Monday	08/02/10	12.30 - 2.30	6
Personal Development	Monday	25/01/10	9.45 - 11.45	6
Realise Your Potential*	Wednesday Thursday	20/01/10 21/01/10	10.00 - 4.00 10.00 - 4.00	2 days
Meditation	Tuesday	09/02/10	7.00 - 9.00 pm	6
Introduction to Computers	Tuesday	09/02/10	7.00 - 9.00 pm	6
Maths	Monday	08/02/10	10.00 - 12.00	TBC
English	Wednesday	10/02/10	10.00 - 12.00	TBC
Stress Management	Tuesday	09/02/10	12.00 - 2.00	6
Introduction to Basic Counselling	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC
Introduction to listening Ear	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC

* Realise Your Potential will last for 2 days and is funded by the Strabane District Council

**All the courses above are dependant on sufficient numbers of partipants.

September Course List 2009

Enrolment Day: 14th September 2009

Course	Day	Date	Time	Weeks
Doll Making	Thursday	24/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Colour me Beautiful	Friday	25/09/09	11.00 - 1.00	6
Homeopathy	Wednesday	23/09/09	10.30 - 12.30	6
Meditation	Monday	21/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Creative Crafts	Monday	21/09/09	10.30 - 12.30	6
Internet and Email	Monday	21/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Basic Computers	Monday	21/09/09	12.30 - 2.30	6
Reiki 1	Monday	21/09/09	1.00 - 3.00	6
Reiki 2	Tuesday	22/09/09	1.00 - 3.00	6
Reiki 3	Tuesday	22/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Start IT	Thursday	24/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Stress Management	Friday	25/09/09	10.00 - 12.00	6
Active Families	Monday	19/10/09	10.30 - 12.30	6
Let’s Talk	Wednesday	21/10/09	10.30 - 1.00	6
Introduction to Basic Counseling	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC
Introduction to Listening Ear	TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC

Realise Your Potential : Tuesday 6th October - Wednesday 7th October

Realise Your Potentional is funded by the Strabane District Council.

Monday 12th October - Tuesday 13th October

Strabane and Lifford Women’s Centre

Course List for May 2009

Enrolment day: Monday 27th April 2009

#	Course Name	Places	Day	Date	Time
1	Homeopathy Advanced	6	Wed	06/05/09	10.00 - 12.00
2	Reiki 1	6	Tuesday	05/05/09	10.00 - 12.00
3	Reiki 2	6	Monday	04/05/09	1.00 - 3.00
4	Basic Computers	6	Monday	11/05/09	10.30 - 12.30
5	Crafts (jewellery + other)	12	Monday	11/05/09	10.30 - 12.30
6	Homeopathy beginners	6	Wed	06/05/09	12.30 - 2.30
7	Stress Management	6	Thursday	07/05/09	10.00 - 12.00
8	Meditation	6	Monday	04/05/09	10.00 - 12.00
9	Start IT	6	Thursday	07/05/09	1.00 - 3.00
10	Introduction to Basic Councilling	6	TBC	TBC	TBC
11	Introduction to Listening Ear	6	TBC	TBC	TBC

Please note as Monday 4th May is a Bank Holiday, Reiki 2 first session will begin on Tuesday 5th May.

The Chairman of Strabane District Council, Councillor Jarlath McNulty will present certificates to women from Strabane & Lifford Women’s Centre who have completed courses from September until December on Thursday 18^th December at 7.00p.m. The women are asked to be in the centre at 6.45p.m.

On Friday 19^th December from 9.00a.m to 1.00p.m the Reiki 3 graduates are offering Reiki treatments for £10.00 for thirty minutes top raise money for the women’s centre. It is hoped that women who use the centre will support this venture.

The Strabane and Lifford Women’s Centre are having an enrolment day on Wednesday 12th September. There will be two enrolment sessions, one between 11am and 1pm with the other from 7pm to 9pm. There are courses in a wide variety of choices including Reflexology, C.L.A.I.T, First Aid, Beauty, Basic Food Hygiene, Parchment Crafts, Indian Head Massage, Art, Interior Design, E.C.D.L, Sign Language, Creative Crafts, Accounts, Reiki, D.I.Y, Flower Arranging, and An Introduction to Computers.The courses will be held at the centre based at Railway Road, Strabane and will have various starting times and days. For further information please telephone them directly on (048) 71886253.

In October 2006 at the request of Cresco Derry we hosted a group of Spanish and Irish visitors who were participants on an EU Funded Training Project. The Spanish visitors in particular stated their disbelief that the women’s centre was not funded directly by government as is the case in their country. Local groups attended and delivered presentations on their organisations work and detailed their experiences of delivering services in a border area. The following groups attended:

• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Koram Centre
• Strabane and District Women Together
• The North West Volunteer Centre

An open day was held in this centre on 31st August 2006 to inform women that the centre was back on track and open for business again. 56 women attended the open day with 8 agencies delivering presentations outlining their services these are as follows;

• The Cresco Trust
• The North West Volunteering Centre
• The Citizens Advice Bureau
• Women Into Politics
• The Cook it Project (Western HAZ)
• New Horizons

The following individuals provided taster sessions;

• Anne Lindsey
• Bernie Hunter
• Milton Porter

The open day was also used as a medium to determine what services and programmes the women wanted delivered at the centre. The analysis provides us with sufficient information to begin a delivery of courses both recreational and educational that would meet the imminent need of women at that time.

A total of 22 courses were delivered at that time with 260 participants. It is interesting to note that 78% of women had never used the centre before. The women also identified a need for a structured personal development process whereby clear progression routes would be provided.

The open day provided a launch pad and spring board for the centre to begin to cater for the real needs of women in the community but it also brought with it a realization and recognition that there are a lot of women in the community that remain isolated and marginalised from services and it is imperative and vital that groups like the SLWC must determine ways of targeting the women.

With this in mind I approached a number of health visitors, family visitors and health professionals and other community based organisations with a view to developing an informal referral system. This has been effective however we are aware that there is much more work to be done in this area.

During open day the Strabane District Council community Safety Partnership provided us with bogus caller packs and personal alarms for distribution to the women as a direct response to a number of attacks that had happened over the previous year.

To celebrate International Women’s Day the centre organised a Pamper Day for the women of the community. A total of 39 women availed of a number of holistic treatments and beauty sessions. These were thoroughly enjoyed by the women and our thanks must go all the therapists who delivered treatments on the day.