Martha Potter

Experience

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  Ballyhoura Development CLG

  Jun 2002 - Jun 2002

  Leader+ Adminstrator
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  Hospital Family Resource Centre

  Sept 2005 - now

  Community Development Worker

  COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER: HOSPITAL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTREOlder Person’s Coordinator – • Supporting volunteers in the community to deliver social services to over two hundred older people across rural communities of east Limerick.• Coordinate activities for older people from delivering social supports, training opportunities, information provision, funding to enhance the health and well-being of older people in the community.• Working with different funders and agencies to provide coordinated services to older people in the community from transport, home and community supports and public & mental health.Disability Support • Facilitating services for community based disability group to advocate on behalf of this group and carers in the community to improve services, raise awareness of issues and lobby for change for this group within the community. • Organising open days, information events in the community to raise awareness of disability in the community.• Working in partnership with different agencies in the Mid/West to provided better services and supports for people with disabilities in the community. FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER• Co-ordinating the Strengthening Families Programme in East Limerick• Supporting families with teenagers to provided community and training to improve outcomes at home, school and community life.• Designing programmes and training for parents who require additional family supports to improve communication with their children, improve self-esteem, information impacts of drug and alcohol misuse and social media. • Working in partnership with different agencies to coordinator services, information provision, access funding to improve outcomes for parents and children in the community. Show less