A Chairde,

Please find a selection of information and updates below:

Healthy Club Officer Training

The Community & Health Department, Croke Park, will be running an online Healthy Club Officer (Health and Wellbeing Officer)  training session on Wednesday the 17th of June at 7pm. This training is open to all club members. To register to attend the training please click on the following link: HCO Training Registration Form. Please note that the deadline for registration is close of business on Friday the 12th of June.

Role of the CHWC

This week for our webinar series we focused on ‘The Role of Health & Wellbeing in GAA County Structures’. We were joined on the night by Bríd McGoldrick (National H&W Committee Chairperson), Michael Duignan (Offaly County Board Chairperson), Niall Dunne (Mayo CHWC Chairperson) and Damien McHugh (Fermanagh CHWC Chairperson). The aim of the webinar was to provide guidance to CHWC’s and County Boards on the role that health and wellbeing is playing during the current crisis and it’s importance year round. I have attached the information document completed by Niall Dunne from Mayo CHWC again for your information.  A link to view the webinar is available here:  https://youtu.be/on38m5XwQNc

Water Safety

Unfortunately over the past few weeks there have been a number of accidents that have taken place on the water, some of which have resulted in the loss of life. The RNLI have launched a new water safety campaign and we would urge you to share and encourage clubs to share this across their social media platforms and help to prevents any further incidents. These social media videos and images are available to download here; https://we.tl/t-NY9KFS9gf4. Please note that downloads are only available for one week, if you wish for these to be issued to you again please do not hesitate to contact me.

Stress Control

HSE, Health & Wellbeing will be offering another Stress Control programme online, commencing the 8th of June 2020, via www.stresscontrol.org. This 3 week programme for adults aged 18 and over is free of charge to the public and delivered by Dr Jim White, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, the creator of the programme

Gaelic Games Coach Survey 2020

Coaches at every level of football, hurling and camogie are being encouraged and urged to make their voices heard via the online survey. The Gaelic games Coach Survey 2020 is a unique opportunity for coaches to provide an insight into their role, and their needs. This survey will look at all our coaches’ experience, their practice and how coaches see coaching into the future. We are also very interested in coaches’ experience of coach education, and what coaches feel are their own learning needs. Those people that have dropped out of coaching are also part of this survey, to help us understand why they are no longer coaching, and whether there is anything that we can put in place to encourage them back into coaching. We are asking all coaches to complete the survey and to circulate this survey amongst all the coaches within your club & county. To access the survey, you can click on the following link: Take Gaelic Games Coach Survey 2020. Alternatively, you can visit the GAA Learning website - https://learning.gaa.ie/coachsurvey or email gamesdevelopment@gaa.ie