Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic experiences that occur before the age of 18 and are remembered throughout adulthood. Evidence shows people who experience stressful and poor quality childhoods are more likely to develop health-harming and anti-social behaviours, more likely to perform poorly in school, more likely to be involved in crime and ultimately less...
Community development involves the active participation of individuals in their own community. This course will help you to consider the barriers to participation that people may face, and look at ways to overcome these. You will also examine skills needed for effective facilitation of participation. By the end of the session, you will: Consider power...
Learning Aim – to develop staff skills in the effective management, presentation and sharing of records and reports appropriate to the service intervention. By the end of the programme participants will be able to: Recognise the importance of recording for the agency and the service user. Maintain accurate, complete, accessible and up to date records...
We regret that this course has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience. This course is delivered by people with personal experience of addiction, treatment and recovery. It is intended to benefit any staff or volunteers who may come into contact with individuals who have the potential to misuse substances, are misusing substances or have misused...
You are warmly invited to join WCVA in celebrating Europe Day on the evening of 10th May 2017 in Yr Hen Lyfrgell (The Old Library), Cardiff. The event will be the culmination of activities hosted by WCVA in order to celebrate the success of Europe in Wales, in particular the impact and benefit of the...
Understand and comply with Data Protection regulations, legislation and best practice The aim of this WCVA half-day training course is to provide knowledge and understanding of data protection requirements, to ensure that organisations comply with the law and good practice The Data Protection Act 1998 sets out a number of requirements that most organisations have...
Living Well, Leaving a LegacyWhat can you do? What can we do together? This is a free event, to support ‘planning and preparing for end of life’. The programme will include: Practical ideas on starting conversations Collaboration through ‘Compassionate Communities’ Workshops Keynote speakers, including: - Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport will...
The next meeting takes place on Thursday 11th May. More information to follow. To reserve your place or find out more, please email thoria.m@c3sc.org.uk Tea and biscuits will be provided.
Following the high demand for our last set of these workshops, the Charity Commission, the regulator of charities in England and Wales, is running a further series of events for recently formed charities working in high risk areas internationally, including where there may be conflict and/or political instability. By ‘recently formed’, we mean charities set...
If you are a staff member or volunteer offering frontline advice, support or information to people in financial need, join Turn2us for a free 3-hour workshop and learn how to use: The Turn2us Benefits Calculator The Grants Search tool The website to access other information including how Universal Credit might affect your service users With these...
Develop your marketing and sell your services more effectively This course will help those working in third sector organisations to develop a planned approach to marketing to help them sell their services more effectively. This course will provide a practical guide to developing a marketing strategy. It will help you map your services, understand your...
We regret that this course has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience. This course takes you through the different types of incorporated structures available for a voluntary or-ganisation and will provide you with an understanding of the work involved in becoming incorporated. Attending this course will enable you to: understand what incorporation means for a...
