Training

The Expert Patients Programme Community Interest Company (EPP CIC) are running 3 courses for people living with long-term health conditions. This course can help you:

• Learn new skills to manage your health condition
• Develop confidence in the daily management of your specific conditions(s)
• Meet others and share similar experiences
• Learn about developing more effective relationships with healthcare professionals

There are the courses starting in:

Fundraising Training is hosting a course called Building Relationships with Funders. This course will look attechniques employed to enhance your chances of submitting a successful application. The course will demonstrate the importance of developing long term relationships, which requires careful planning and management. As a result of the event participants will be able to:

A knowledge of counselling skills can be extremely helpful in our daily lives – whether it is in knowing how to support friends in need, coping with difficult relationships in the family or for use professionally by those working in management, healthcare, human resources, education, or in one of the many welfare or voluntary occupations.

Run by a Relate trainer who is also an experienced and qualified counsellor, this accredited course is designed to give participants the opportunity to learn the basic skills and to practise them in a safe environment.

Do you look after someone? Unpaid, looking after someone who is frail or has a disability? Do you need support to:

• Access information and contacts?
• Reduce stress, guilt and isolation?
• improve your quality of life?

The Caring with Confidence Programme can help you. The courses are entirely free, are in small groups for those in similar situations and are at various locations in Oxfordshire throughout the Spring and Summer months.

Charities are increasingly keen to explore joint working, and one of the ways of doing that is to jointly own or occupy property. Organisations going into the property market together can also improve their negotiating position in what are still very uncertain times.

Do you want to find a job, a course, or get some training - but don't know where to start? Housing Needs can help you get On Your FEET.

On 29 March 2009 visit Oxford Town Hall to pick up a copy of the new On Your FEET guide, which can help you find out about:

Many people of all ages in Oxfordshire are looking after a relative, child, friend or neighbour who needs support because of frailty, illness, disability or a difficulty, such as an addiction. Unpaid carers provide most of the care in the community. Many are juggling paid work and caring responsibilities.

If we are “Carer Aware”, through our roles we can help carers access our services and signpost them to support for them in their caring roles