Focus
- Addiction
- Anti-discrimination
- Children
- Education and training
- Gender and sexuality
- Health services and health promotion
- Housing and homelessness
- Human Rights
- People in vulnerable situations e.g. domestic violence.
- Policy and advocacy
- Poverty alleviation
- Services for older people
- Services for Travellers and ethnic minorities
- Social inclusion
- Volunteering
Interest
- Development of education and training materials and programmes
- European learning networks and exchanges
- Community outreach and engagement
- Cultural and artistic innovation
- Governance
- Policy, advocacy and campaigns
- Research
EU Project Experience
No experience
EU Funding Goals
COPE Galway is seeking to build our network and participate as a partner in a project.
We are seeking to develop our expertise and contribute to best practice in the areas of:
- Prevention and early engagement in the areas of homelessness and domestic abuse and positive ageing
- Combating ageism
- Nutritional needs of older people and those with chronic illness
- The role of the built environment in enabling social connections
- Providing transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness
- Utilising social enterprise models to address the needs of our clients
- Trauma informed practice in social care
- Developing training content around a holistic approach to embracing ageing
- Research and evaluation, building capacity to demonstrate the impact of our work
- Volunteerism
- Philanthropy.
Strengths
COPE Galway has 60 years experience across our three service areas: homelessness, domestic abuse and healthy ageing.
Our work is informed by
- Prevention and early engagement: for example, by working with people at threat of homelessness; teaching teenagers and young adults about healthy relationships and; encouraging social and health activities for older people to support independent ageing.
- A person-centred approach: we listen to clients to understand their motivations and aspirations. We follow a participatory model when working with children, giving them a voice in the care they receive.
- Embracing ageing: we emphasise the continued contributions made by older people to society and those around them.
- Trauma-informed practice: we seek to assist clients to understand what they have experienced and process past and current trauma. All our staff are trained in trauma informed practice and this informs their approach and work with clients and all stakeholders
