Last week Pavee Point attended the launch of ‘Connecting for Life 2026–2035,’ Ireland’s new national strategy to reduce suicide and self-harm. We welcome the strategy’s recognition of the disproportionate impact of suicide on Travellers and its acknowledgement of the role that racism, discrimination, social exclusion and other social determinants play in shaping mental health outcomes. […]
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Category: Mental Health
To mark World Maternal Mental Health Day, Pavee Mothers and the Mental Health team facilitated a coffee morning with Pavee Point staff. The morning generated very good conversation around the stigma of mental health. It was a very informative session: where it is particularly important to have a space to have open conversations around Mental […]
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🎥WATCH: for 30 years, partnership between the Health Service Executive, services, Travellers organisations, and Primary Health Care for Travellers projects has been vital in addressing Traveller health inequalities. More is needed to sustain projects going forward, including robust implementation and resourcing of the National Traveller Health Action Plan (NTHAP, 2022), better terms and conditions for […]
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Photo on home page by Derek Speirs. Pavee Point was part of a protest to highlight the need for urgent action on Traveller Mental Health. There was a great show of support and solidarity by Traveller organisations and allies at the protest on 31 May, organised by the National Traveller Mental Health Network. Speakers highlighted […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre highlighted today the urgent need for a whole of government approach to tackle racism and discrimination and build culturally appropriate services to address the Traveller mental health crisis that has been compounded by COVID-19. Pavee Point was speaking to the Oireachtas Sub Committee on Mental Health established to examine […]
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Pregnancy and birth can be an exciting time, but also a time of great change. It is normal to feel worried or stressed about different things that are happening, especially at the moment during COVID-19. If you are a new mother remember that there are lots of supports available to help you mind your mental health during and after pregnancy. […]
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Pavee Point’s Men’s Health Team is participated in ‘Empowered Voices’ a Traveller event on Sunday for First Fortnight 2021. Our Men’s Health workers were part of a panel discussion on identity and mental health that will also include a performance of the poem ‘Gloke’. ‘Gloke’ is the result of workshops researching issues of racism, discrimination, […]
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Traveller Community Health Workers work hard to keep us all in the Traveller Community safe and well. For World Mental Health Week we are highlighting that it’s important that our minders mind themselves. Pavee Point has produced a new leaflet with advice for the workers in 27 Traveller Primary Health Care Projects around the country.
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World Mental Health Week starts today and wellbeing is just as important for older Travellers as at any other time of life. We have developed a set of postcards with tips for older Travellers on how our Auld Pavees can mind their mental health. The theme for this week is ‘Mental Health for All – Greater […]
read more →Over 200 people tuned in for Pavee Point’s webinar on the impacts of racism on mental health delivered by Australian Professor at Deakin Univesity, Yin Paradies for World Mental Health Day on 8th October 2020. Professor Paradies talked about the experience of Aboriginal Australians which echoes the experience of Irish Travellers. He said studies showed […]
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Pavee Point hosted a workshop at the Connecting for Life conference at Croke Park on Friday 24 January. The conference was aimed at service providers in Dublin North City and County. Pavee Point’s Mental Health Team gave a presentation on elements that impact on Traveller mental health and then got service providers to play our […]
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A group of Traveller men from Dublin teamed up with spoken word poet Geoff Finan to explore issues around identity and mental health. The result ‘Gloke’ was part of the launch of First Fortnight this week. First Fortnight is the mental health art and culture festival which takes place during the first two weeks of […]
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Travellers hold the key to finding solutions when it comes to their own mental health – a new Traveller art exhibition on Traveller mental health shows. ‘Unpacking Traveller Mental Health’ is an exhibition developed by Traveller Primary Health Care projects in the Eastern Region Traveller Health Unit to highlight the stresses and strains that make up […]
read more →‘Unpacking Traveller Mental Health’ is an immersive and multi-sensory approach to highlight the various dimensions that impact on Travellers’ mental health. The Process Drawing on the work from Syrian-born artist and architect Mohamad Hafez in his exhibition ‘Unpacked: Refugee Baggage’, this event uses traditional Traveller ‘grub-boxes’ to explore the individual, social and structural dimensions that […]
read more →Pavee Point calls today for a long term plan – focused, strategic and resourced – to tackle Traveller health inequalities at the Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. Speaking to the Committee Patrick Reilly, Mental Health Worker, Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre said “We’re tired of the status quo. Traveller organisations alone cannot […]
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Traveller groups around the country have come together to highlight suicide prevention events that will take place in September to highlight World Suicide Prevention Day. Latest figures show that suicide accounts for 11% of all Traveller deaths and that the suicide rate is 7 times the national average for Traveller men and 6 times the […]
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