Service Development and Support

SAFE Ireland provides ongoing support to members on a range of practice, developmental and organisational issues.

We continue to explore and facilitate ways in which members can offer greater support to each other whilst responding to key practice issues. In order to achieve this SAFE Ireland continues to implement the following objectives:

• To provide information and support directly to services on request
• To identify and respond to policy and practice issues that arise across services
• To strategically represent and negotiate policy issues at relevant national fora
• To develop and provide practice development workshops on key issues
• To develop further strategies to address ongoing practice issues as appropriate

In 2009/2010 SAFE Ireland provided

• 522 workshop/training places
• 31 training courses/workshops
• 46 training days

In total, 162 individual people working or volunteering within our members services participated in one or more of the learning and development programmes.

These learning and development programmes covered the following areas:

• Problematic Substance Use- Awareness, Policy and Practice
• Implementing Outcome Evaluation in Domestic Violence Services
• Communications/Media Training
• Reflective Leadership
• Homelessness Policy
• “Nurturing the Soul”
• Admissions, Access and Referral to Refuge
• Vicarious Trauma
• HSE Service Arrangements

For further details see:

Evaluation of Women’s Needs and Outcomes

Addressing Substance Use and Domestic Violence

National Standards for Domestic Violence Service Provision in Ireland