Poverty Aware Practice at UCD
On Thursday, November 17th, ATD Ireland headed to University College Dublin to teach a two-hour module to social work students. This module is called ‘Poverty Aware Practice’ and aims as always to center those with experience with poverty and social workers. Four community activists joined us: Paul, Gavin, Lorraine, and Andrew. The purpose of the module is to give students an insight into what good practice in social work looks like. This module has been designed to be structured to an extent, yet with some flexibility. It consists of presentation slides which guided the conversation, however, it was not restricting. The…