C3SC - Cardiff Third Sector Council

Cheese and Crime night for all the family
2012-11-15 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Western Leisure Centre, Western Leisure Centre
Keeping South Wales Safe – Hate Crime Officer – Cardiff Council – Wales and West Housing – Domestic Violence Unit – Community Safety Officer – Scenes of Crime Officer – Neighbourhood Policing Team – Light refreshments provided

Parental Alienation
2012-11-15 | Cardiff and County Club, Westgate Street, Cardiff CF10 1DA, Cardiff and County Club, Westgate Street, Cardiff CF10 1DA
FNF – BOTH PARENTS MATTER CYMRU is delighted to invite you to a seminar on parental alienation.
There are many reasons why a child becomes alienated from a parent but whatever the route, the result is, for parents, akin to a living bereavement. Research shows us that the impact of this on children and families can be devastating.
The seminar will explain the concept of the alienated child, the research evidence that supports this and will highlight best practice when protecting the rights of children. It will also stimulate discussion about the concept in the context of the Welsh Government’s Children’s Rights Measure 2011.
Karen Woodall is the Director of the Centre for Separated Families, a charity working with everyone affected by family separation. She is the author of several publications on children and families including Putting Children First published by Piatkus and Oxfam. Karen is a family therapist working in the High Courts with conflicted families where children have rejected a parent.

FREE workshop - maximising your local / community and health provision for ladies
2012-11-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Riverside community Warehouse, Riverside Mechen Place, Cardiff CF11 6EQ, Riverside community Warehouse, Riverside Mechen Place, Cardiff CF11 6EQ
You are invited to a free workshop on maximising your local /community and health care provision.
Please call (029) 437864 / 07538144666 or email info@hdacardiff.org to reserve your free place.

South Wales Programme Third Sector Engagement Workshop
2012-11-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Cardiff Central Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1FL, Cardiff Central Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1FL
You may have heard that a debate has been launched about potential changes to the location of some hospital services locally. Health boards across South Wales, including Cardiff and Vale, have come together to look at a small number of specialist, but important, services to explore how best to tackle some of the issues they face in providing them safely. They’ve called this work the South Wales Programme.
Working with more than 300 clinicians across South Wales, the Programme has identified some specialist services across South Wales where they think there may be a need to rethink where and how these services are provided.

The services being looked at are:
– some specialist maternity services (obstetrics) – some specialist inpatient services for children and babies born very prematurely (paediatrics and neonatal services) – accident and emergency and trauma services.

You can find out more about the ideas and how to engage in the debate at www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/swp

No decisions have yet been made and the Health Boards are keen to know what the public think about the issues facing the NHS and the possible scenarios being considered for concentrating 24/7 consultant-led care in South Wales. Based on the comments and advice received in this engagement phase, which runs until 19th December, a series of options will be developed and formally consulted on early next year. As part of the crucial engagement phase, Vale Centre for Voluntary Services and Cardiff Third Sector Council are hosting an engagement event for Third Sector Organisations to inform and offer a chance to get involved. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board clinical leads will present the ideas being explored at this session. Views and discussion from the event will inform a joint response from the CVCs. South Wales Programme Third Sector Engagement Workshop16th November 10am to 1pmat Cardiff Central Library, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1FL
Refreshments provided
To book your place and find out more, please email Kevin Rahman-Daultrey, Health and Social Care Facilitator at Cardiff Third Sector Council at kevin.r@c3sc.org.uk

Autumn Food Fayre for women and children
2012-11-17 08:00, 2012-11-17 10:45 - 14:30 | The Women’s Workshop, Clarence House, Clarence Road, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5FB, The Women’s Workshop, Clarence House, Clarence Road, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5FB
Come along for delicious food, cookery demonstrations, tastings, kids’ cookery and fun activities, stalls, lucky dip, tombola, vintage sweet shop, and more…Entry 50p adult / 20p child – includes a free cuppa!

Consultation event
2012-11-17 09:30 - 12:30 | Whitchurch Community Centre, Whitchurch Community Centre
Julie Morgan AM invites you to a meeting to hear the views of older women about the issues affecting them – health, community care, pensions, housing, etc.
Speakers: Baroness Anita Gale, Angela Gorman and others.
There will be short presentations at the beginning of the meeting and the rest of the time will be spent listening to what older women feel about the health services, community care, housing, benefits, pensions etc.
The meeting is open to all, is non-political and there will be coffee and cake! A more detailed programme will be sent if you are able to come.

An Introduction to Self Management (ISM)
2012-11-17 10:00 - 12:30 | Cardiff Library, Cardiff Library
This FREE NHS workshop is designed to give patients and carers some tools and ideas how they can live with a chronic condition / the caring situation. Looking at lifestyle choices and making healthy changes.
Please ring (029) 2035 0620 if you or anyone you know are interested.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (Wales)
2012-11-19 - 2012-11-20 | YMCA, Newport, YMCA, Newport
This course is part of the national training programme for Wales and its partners include the Welsh Government, Health Challenge Wales and Mind Cymru. Comparisons can be drawn between YMHFA and emergency first aid. In both cases members of the public can offer immediate aid and support the young person to get appropriate help.
YMHFA improves mental health literacy and helps people to recognise the signs and symptoms of young people mental health problems; to respond to various mental health crises, engage with, support and signpost people to appropriate professional help. This course is particularly relevant for those who work with adolescents and may come into contact with young people at risk of experiencing mental distress.

Pedal Power AGM
2012-11-19 | Pontcanna Caravan Park, Off Dogo Street, Cardiff CF11 9JJ, Pontcanna Caravan Park, Off Dogo Street, Cardiff CF11 9JJ
Pedal Power patron Mark Colbourne – paralympic gold medallist will be speaking at the AGM.
If you are coming by car then please use the Pontcanna Fields changing room car-park, off Fields Park Road, and walk down the spine road. If you are a disabled member and need to use the car park at Pedal Power, please note that you now need to display a parking permit which you can obtain from the reception desk in our bike shed .Please RSVP by phoning (029) 2039 0713.

Cardiff Third Sector Learning and Enterprise Network meeting
2012-11-20 09:30 - 13:30 | The Culture and Media Centre, Loudoun Square, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5HW, The Culture and Media Centre, Loudoun Square, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5HW
The Cardiff Third Sector Learning and Enterprise Network brings together organisations working in this field to connect with one another to share thinking, learning and good practice.
Raising Awareness of Essential Skills in the Workplace is the theme for today.
This FREE event will highlight the Welsh Government strategy to improve the essential skills of literacy, numeracy and IT.

The event will include:
– Workshop on sustaining a culture of learning in the workplace – How to access funding developing the skills of your workforce

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
If you are interested in attending this meeting and finding out more about the network, please email Thoria Mohamed (see contact details below).

Bringing Human Trafficking Out of the Shadows
2012-11-21 | All Nations Centre, Cardiff, All Nations Centre, Cardiff
Between 500,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked each year in the EU. In 2011, the Metropolitan Police estimated that up to 11,800 women may have been trafficked into England and Wales and there are at least 10,000 slaves in the UK.
Victims of human trafficking are victims of coercion, exploitation, deception, kidnap, false imprisonment and rape. And they are not only adults and teenagers. The UN estimates that some 1.2m children are trafficked across the world each year.
In response to the growing need to raise public awareness and improve support for victims of human trafficking, BAWSO, in partnership with Gwent Police and Welsh Women’s Aid, is bringing together experts from around the world to an International Conference on Human Trafficking.
This conference will integrate European knowledge and provide a platform to bring together case studies and best practices with important contributions from EU policymakers, international organisations and NGOs from across Europe. It will also facilitate policy discussion and explore comprehensive and integrated solutions to fighting the ‘hidden’ crime of human trafficking.Find out more on the BAWSO website.

Anti-social behaviour - what are the answers?
2012-11-22 | Mansell Hall, Llancaiach Fawr, Gelligaer Road, Nelson, Treharris CF46 6ER, Mansell Hall, Llancaiach Fawr, Gelligaer Road, Nelson, Treharris CF46 6ER
Dealing with the causes of anti-social behaviour is a complex and often controversial subject.
This briefing will equip you with an understanding of the range of options and support available to help you and your clients.
The first session will be a comprehensive briefing from Steve Povey, head of Shelter Cymru’s legal team, on the legal situation regarding anti-social behaviour.
This will be followed by a session from Shelter Cymru’s Valleys Inclusion Project team on the development of preventative ASB projects in England and Wales and how such projects can help your clients, including the support that can be offered’.
So, to find out more about the holistic approach to dealing with Anti-social Behaviour, book a place on the briefing.

International Treatment Effectiveness Project Training
2012-11-22 | NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE, NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE
International Treatment Effectiveness Project (ITEP) is a mechanism by which quality of drug treatment can be developed and measured in order to improve delivery of treatment services. It uses mind maps as a visual cognitive tool to help clients organise their thoughts and goals easily, by focusing on images and association.
This NewLink Wales training course focuses on the two approaches that are designed to be delivered by key workers as part of their client work sessions. This model of psychosocial interventions provides evidence based and easily evaluated tools for use by key workers across the drug treatment system and throughout the health and social care sector.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
– Identify what International Treatment Effectiveness Project (ITEP) is and what it involves. – Explain the use of free mapping and structured mapping for personal use, service user work and supervision settings. – Examine the use of mind maps, ways of thinking and cycles in motivation, bringing about change and the development of care plans. – Select the appropriate maps to practice use to maximise confidence and adapt to current and future working roles.
Voluntary Sector workers – £135.00Statutory Sector workers – £145.00This includes facilitation, handouts, refreshments and a buffet lunch.

Introduction to trust fundraising
2012-11-22 | VAMT, Merthyr Tydfil, VAMT, Merthyr Tydfil
Aims: To provide participants with the knowledge, tools and techniques to raise money from charitable trusts.

Content: There are nearly 9,000 grant-making trusts in the UK. Who are they? What do they fund? How can you find out more about them? What makes a successful application? This introductory course for those new to trust fundraising will answer these questions and more. It will focus on those trusts with a particular interest in Wales.

Learning outcomesBy the end of this course participants will be able to:• Understand what are grant-making trusts and foundations• Be aware of what trusts fund • Know how to research trusts• Appreciate the key factors in a successful application• Recognise how to connect with and develop relationships with trusts• Ensure they comply with relevant legislation and best practice

Who is this course for?This course is suitable for trustees, staff or volunteers wanting to find out more about the potential for raising money from trusts. Participants will benefit from internet access at home or at work to participate fully in this course.

You can book your place via the WCVA website.

Working Positively with Autistic Children in the Early Years
2012-11-22 | Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil
This one-day Children in Wales course offers you a broader understanding of how autism can impact on early development, play and social interaction. This deeper understanding can underpin positive and progressive relationships with autistic children. Strategies for promoting engagement, play and language development are explored, along with positive responses to behaviours found in autism that can challenge professionals and families. This course is for all those working with autistic children and their families who wish to deepen their understanding and enlarge their skills base with this cohort of children.

The course will cover:
– Current views on the nature and features of Autism – Evidenced-based approaches in play, social development, family well-being and behaviour – Strategies to support communication and shared attention

Price: Members £115 Non-members £135

Download the booking form on the Children in Wales website (PDF).
This course is also offered as in-house training, claire.sharp@childreninwales.org.uk for more information

Health & Social Care Policy Xtra: Integrated Local Care Plan, and what next after the Social Services (Wales) Bill
2012-11-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff
What do both the Social Services (Wales) Bill and the coming Integrated Local Care Plan mean for health and social care in Wales?
This pre-consultation event is your opportunity to hear from the Welsh Government about the ILCP and progress on the new Bill. Attending will be Margaret Provis, Deputy Director for Social Services and Lisa Dunsford, Deputy Director Primary and Community Care – this will be your chance to meet them and have your opinions heard.
The focus of the day will be on integrated working and new models of care across health, social care and the third sector, to best meet the needs of people within their local area.
You can book your place here. It’s your chance to have your say on how integrated services can best work for Wales.
This is a free event funded by the health and social care network Network 3, with support from Welsh Government.

Independent living
2012-11-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Chapter Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre
Cardiff People First Community Voices Group is hosting a meeting for members of the Black and Ethnic Minority Community who have a learning disability.
The meeting will provide the opportunity to let the Welsh Government know what people with a learning disability from a BME group think about the Consultation Document on Independent Living (Supporting disabled people to lead an independent life). The meeting will be accessible and interactive.
A link to the Easy Read version of the document is provided below (PDF):
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/caecd/publications/120920indlivingconsultationeasyreadscreen.pdf

'No Soul for Sale' - raising awareness about human trafficking
2012-11-23 | ButeTown History and Arts Centre, 4 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff Bay CF10 5AG, ButeTown History and Arts Centre, 4 Dock Chambers, Bute Street, Cardiff Bay CF10 5AG
In 2012 Theatre Versus Oppression became involved in a project to raise awareness about human trafficking worldwide but with a special focus on the UK. ‘No Soul for Sale’ uses testimonies of individuals who have been trafficked to inform the creation of this work. ‘No Soul for Sale’ is written and directed by Jennifer S Hartley.
Time: 7.30pm on both dates.
Tickets are £7 on the door. This performance is repeated at the same time on Saturday 24 November 2012.

FREE Food Hygiene Training
2012-11-24 | Grangetown Library, Grangetown Library
Do you live or work in Grangetown? Are you interested in learning about Food Hygiene? Would you like to attend a FREE one-day accredited course?
Spaces are limited so places will be on a first come, first served basis.

Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Awareness Day
2012-11-24 10:00 - 16:00 | The Culture and Media Centre CMC @Loudoun Square, Butetown Health Centre, Plas Iona, Cardiff CF10 5HW, The Culture and Media Centre CMC @Loudoun Square, Butetown Health Centre, Plas Iona, Cardiff CF10 5HW
Friends of Cardiff Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia invite you to their FREE conference, ‘Community Spirit in Crisis? Creating the potential for positive change’.Themes include access to services by patients and family, screening for inherited anaemias, ethnicity and health, the importance to patients of services within the community, the role of the specialist nurse, commissioning of appropriate services. Speakers include expert health professionals from University Hospital of Wales and Children’s Hospital for Wales, and internationally-recognised experts from elsewhere in the UK: Professor Karl Atkin University of York, Professor Simon Dyson De Montfort University, Dr Alison Leary London South Bank University and Dr Matthew Darlison University of London.
Programme chaired by Dr WM Bashi, Consultant Haematologist Cardiff&Vale UHB and Professor Elizabeth Anionwu, CBE, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, University of West London.

Taxation and borrowing powers for Wales
2012-11-26 09:00 - 15:30 | Parc Thistle Hotel, Park Place, Cardiff, Parc Thistle Hotel, Park Place, Cardiff
This Institute of Welsh Affairs conference engages with the Silk Commission’s recommendations on fiscal devolution to Wales, to be published in mid November. How far should the Welsh Government be allowed to go in taxing and borrowing? Will this mean an increase in accountability or an invitation to tax and spend? How strong are the arguments? Who and what have influenced the Commission? How could this benefit the Welsh economy? What are the challenges for the civil service? How might it change Welsh politics, and what are the implications for the United Kingdom? And what of the Barnett formula, and the case for another referendum?
Conference tickets are: £30; £5 for students
For a full conference programme please click on the following link http://www.iwa.org.uk/en/events/view/197
Tickets can either be booked on the website or alternatively email wales@iwa.org.uk or telephone 029 2066 0820.

Attachment and its Role in Children's Lives
2012-11-27 | Cardiff, Cardiff
This Children in Wales course is aimed at all those interested in the emotional development of babies and children, and particularly those working with, or supporting, children and families in stressful circumstances. Attachment disorder has come to be understood as a major contributor to behavioural and emotional problems in children, and in the development of personality disorders in adulthood. Understanding the importance of attachment in early development and how to recognise when family bonds are undermined are critical skills for those working with families. Practitioners also need skills in direct and systemic work to support children with attachment difficulties. This course therefore also describes the interventions that are available if you are working directly with children and their caregivers.

The course will explore:
– Why attachment matters – How attachment patterns are formed – What happens when attachment goes wrong – How observation can help us assess attachment – What we can do to strengthen and repair attachment relationships within families
Price: Members £115 Non-members £135

You can download a booking form here (PDF).
This course is also offered as in-house training, please email claire.sharp@childreninwales.org.uk for more information .

Project managment basics for EU funded projects
2012-11-27 | Carmarthen, Carmarthen
Aims: The aim of this WCVA course is to provide an introduction to the project management process and to examine how you can best ensure project success through each of the stages of the project.

By attending this course you will be able to:
• Describe the project cycle
• Understand some of the key concepts and common terminology of project
management
• Understand EU funding rules and regulations and how they apply to your
project
• Understand the role of monitoring and evaluation of your project
• Understand what contributes towards project success
• Understand how to identify and manage risks

Who is this course for?
Individuals who are involved in managing or delivering EU funded contracts or projects, or who need to have a general understanding of the principles of running an EU funded project in order to support those directly involved in managing an EU funded project.

Find out more on the WCVA website.

Audio editing
2012-11-28 | The Environment Centre, Swansea, The Environment Centre, Swansea
Aim: To equipment participants with the skills needed to effectively produce a good quality audio story.

Content:Participants will learn the basic storytelling and technical skills needed to produce an interview generated audio story. The course will be hands on and practical and will give advice and training in the most effective interview techniques as well as in the editing and recording skills necessary.

Learning outcomes:By attending this course you will be able to …
– Use an audio recorder – Prepare an interviewee and interview questions appropriately – Conduct an interview with confidence – Prepare a storyboard using an interview recording – Understand the process of being the interviewee and the facilitator – Use audio editing software to edit a voiceover and create a story – Post produce a story into the correct format for CD or online – Participants will leave with a CD of the story they have created

Who is this course for? This course is aimed at those who want to work with individuals to gather their experience or story. Once recorded these stories can be used in a variety of ways including as podcasts, as content for websites or for training purposes. This is a follow on course for those who have attended our ‘Introduction to Storytelling’ course and for those who have some experience of using digital stories.

Service to commemorate International Day to End Violence Against Women
2012-11-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Welsh Women’s Aid and BAWSO invite you to LIGHT A CANDLE – a service to commemorate International Day to End Violence Against Women.Theme: VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUNG WOMENSpeakers TBAPre-event march: assemble outside BAWSO offices (9 Cathedral Road, Pontcanna) at 10.00amPost-event lunch:At BAWSO to raise money for women who have experienced violence but have no recourse to public funds.ALL WELCOME!Please promote widely!

Pedal Power Celebration Dinner
2012-11-28
To celebrate the great achievements of Pedal Power’s Patron, Paralympian Mark Colbourne, the charity is holding a celebration dinner.
The price of the 3-course dinner and entertainment is £30. Booking is essential as there is limited availability.

Child Protection - 'Understanding how to safeguard the welfare of children and young people'
2012-11-29 | Cardiff, Cardiff
Accredited Training Level 2 through Agored Cymru
A one-day Children in Wales course aimed at anyone working directly or indirectly with children and young people in a wide range of workplace and community settings. The purpose of the training is to give participants confidence and essential knowledge on how to safeguard the children and young people in their environment.
The training is accredited through Agored Cymru and participants will need to complete assessments to demonstrate learning. Upon successful completion of an assignment the participant will achieve 3 credits at level 2. This unit forms part of the Welsh quality assurance framework for vocational training.
As a result of the training participants will:
– Learn about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people, including E-safety – Understand the roles of different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people – Understand how to safeguard children, young people and practitioners in a work setting – Identify the characteristics of different types of child abuse – Know how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied – Be able to describe the principles and boundaries of confidentiality and when to share information

Price:
Members £105*
Non members £125*

Please Note – * The advertised rates include a charge of £25 per person for Accreditation, External Verification and Agored Cymru Certification.

This course is also offered as in-house training, please contact claire.sharp@childreninwales.org.uk for more information

Vision 21 (Cyfle Cymru)'s AGM
2012-11-29 | Sbectrwm Centre, Fairwater, Cardiff, Sbectrwm Centre, Fairwater, Cardiff
Vision 21 (Cyfle Cymru)’s Annual General Meeting is being held on Thursday 29th November 2012 at the Sbectrwm Centre in Fairwater.
The AGM will begin at 5.00pm, after the Vision 21 Christmas Fayre (also taking place at Sbectrwm, from 12pm to 3pm).
Please RSVP by Friday 23rd November.

WCVA Annual Conference
2012-11-29 | Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff City Stadium
The title of this year’s WCVA conference is ‘I matter, we matter: Co-production in action’.
WCVA believes the third sector can improve services for people in Wales by co-production: designing and delivering services with the people who use them and in their communities.
Co-production is a working partnership that puts people at the centre and draws on the resources of the individual and the community, as well as those of the service provider, where everyone has something to give and everyone benefits.
This year, WCVA’s Annual Conference will explore the meaning, mechanics and models of co-production that is happening right now in Wales and, importantly, opportunities for more co-production.
Tell WCVA what you’re doing now!
WCVA wants to hear from you about your own co-producing. They know some of the good work under way across Wales but they want to showcase and share best practice at the conference.
Send your examples to Gareth Coles at gcoles@wcva.org.uk by 31 October 2012.

The conference programme and booking information will follow soon.
