Healthy Waterford Wellbeing Campaign – Online Courses, Training & Resources

Dr. Christina Corbett, Senior Clinical Psychologist with the HSE - Managing Stress

Suffering from stress? Dr. Christina Corbett, a Senior Clinical Psychologist with the HSE, chats about ways to combat it and has details about a free online stress management course.

Age Action's Getting Started KIT

Age Actions’ Getting Started KIT supports older people to keep in touch with their loved ones during the Covid-19 pandemic. We all are feeling the effects of social distancing, and older people are particularly impacted being asked to cocoon at home. Now it is more important than ever to keep in touch with family and friends so Age Action drew on our Getting Started programme which offered face to face digital skills classes, to create easy How To Guides.

The Getting Started KIT is made up of seven How To guides that will support older people to learn, use, and be confident using smartphones and applications.

RTÉ  broadcast  the video tutorials which are presented by Mary Kennedy on RTÉ One on the Today with Maura and Dáithí programme on Tuesday 28 April at 4.10pm and Thursday 30 April between 3.30pm and 4.40pm. The video tutorials are available to view on our YouTube Channel. 

We are grateful for the support of  RTÉ, NALA, ChangeX, Media Literacy Ireland, the DCU Institute of Future Journalism and the Printing Federation of Ireland for their help in producing and distributing the Getting Started KIT.

The Age Action Getting Started KIT materials are available to download on their website https://www.ageaction.ie/how-we-can-help/getting-started-kit or people can call 01 8730372 leave their name and address and Age Action will post the How to Guides within 10 days.

Age Action also offer a Getting Started Computer Training programme, which provides training in computers, smartphones and the Internet for people over the age of 55 all over Ireland. More than 35,000 Irish people have benefited from Age Action's computer training programme and you can benefit too! Check out https://www.ageaction.ie/how-we-can-help/getting-started-computer-training for more information or call the phone number above.

Tracy Nugent – Resource Officer For Suicide Prevention

Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention Tracy Nugent and her team’s main goal is to implement the national strategy ‘connecting for life’ whose sole aim is to reduce suicide rates. They work in the area of prevention, intervention and post-vention. She also chats about coping with bereavement during this time.