This course promotes principles of inclusion, human rights, equality and social justice, working towards sustainable development and tackling issues such as inequality, climate change, poverty and disadvantage.

In this course, you’ll learn the knowledge and skills you need to work in community development and youth work. Subjects include sociology, psychology, community development, social policy, addiction, human rights, youth development and social entrepreneurship. The course has a strong element of experiential learning and involves fieldwork placements.

The BA in Community and Youth Work is a fully integrated programme of education and training in both community and youth work. Community work is concerned with the development and empowerment of communities through facilitating the active participation of people in addressing issues that affect them collectively.

This course is for you if you are a people person with a patient, kind nature and would like to take on the roles and responsibilities associated with caring for people with additional challenges living in our community.

This course will enable you to acquire competencies and skills, to care for someone with a person-centred approach ensuring that empathy, dignity, respect, and confidentiality are fundamental to best practice. If you want to bring a smile to others, enhance the quality of life and facilitate positive change then this is the course for you.

This programme enables students to acquire practical skills with a host company in a skill area of their choice. Running as a course in our centre in Tralee called Employer Based training, students partake in a combination of on-the-job and in-centre training.

An Employer Based Training Co-ordinator supports both the student and employer throughout the duration of the course.

Community Development organisations in Ireland aim to achieve social change, equality and social justice. Community development workers have been presented with a number of opportunities and challenges over the recent years by the rapidly changing social context of Ireland including work with new communities, migrant workers and refugees, combating racism and challenging the persistence of other social and economic inequalities.

Community development seeks to empower communities and works across a range of services including information and advice, counselling, advocacy and support and targets an equally diverse range of people and areas of interest.

The broad aim of the programme is to provide an opportunity for people who are active in the community to achieve formal qualifications in the community work field.

This course has been developed in partnership with community groups and consists of lectures, workshops, and seminars, combined with a substantial practical element, based in the community. Participants will remain within the community setting, thereby sustaining their contribution to the community while developing the capacity to add value to that contribution through supervised and supported learning in the workplace.

Our mission is to educate and train future community development and youth workers to work in a range of settings in Ireland and internationally so that they can become active citizens and agents of change.

The course promotes principles of inclusion, human rights, equality and social justice, working towards sustainable development, and tackling issues such as inequality, climate change, poverty and disadvantage.

This course will equip learners with the tools and expertise needed to thrive in community driven environments. Throughout this course, you will delve into various modules that form the backbone of community development. Each module is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of fostering community growth and resilience. By exploring these modules, you'll gain practical skills in conflict resolution, effective team collaboration and a deep comprehension of psychological aspects crucial in community dynamics. The course promotes principles of inclusion, equality and social justice. This programme emphasises hands-on experience, encouraging students to apply learned theories to real-world scenarios, ensuring a well-rounded and practical skillset upon completion.

The aim of this one year full time course is to enable the learner to develop the knowledge, skills and competence to work under supervision in a range of community health service settings or to progress to further and/or higher education and training.

This one-year QQI Level5 course enables the learner to acquire the knowledge and skills required to make a meaningful impact in the field of community health. Throughout this course, you will study a range of essential modules, each tailored to provide a well-rounded understanding of healthcare practices. Students have access to a practical skillsroom to carry out simulated healthcare skills prior to work placement. The Work Experience module provides invaluable opportunities for you to apply your skills in actual healthcare settings.

This course is aimed at learners who wish to gain an initial qualification in one of the many areas of social studies. On completion of the courses learners will have gained the following skills:

• Social skills - teamwork, negotiation skills, initiative, ability to deal with people, conflict management
• Information gathering – literature searches, report writing, interviewing, designing surveys
• Analysis and synthesis skills – editing and synthesising information from a variety of sources, reading critically
• Project planning – identifying steps, resources, solving problems, dependability, initiative and being able to work on several tasks at once, time management
• Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of people – cognitive, perceptual, physical, emotional, social, development, personality
• Numerical, IT, statistical and inferential skills, analysis and presentation
• Oral and written communication skills, listening, speaking etc.

Community Education BA in Community Studies, is a flexible, part-time evening degree designed specifically for adults. 

Community Studies programme you will study a range of subjects including Adult and Community Education; Anthropology; Applied Social Studies; Sociology. Modules on Social Analysis give people the theoretical tools to critique modern society. Modules on Counselling Theories; Youth and Community; and Substance Misuse and Dependence afford the opportunity for people to engage perhaps for the first time with the kind of skills and understanding of people who work in a developmental way within marginalised communities.