Concern that the Disability Capacity Review has no mechanism to talk directly to disabled people about where resources need to be invested Today (Friday 16th July) ILMI responded to the Department… read more →
In last week’s Strategies for Change Session we had Jacqueline Healy from the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission (IHREC) come and talk to us about the Public Sector and Human… read more →
Call for expressions of interest for disabled creative writers: Deadline Wednesday, 7 July 2021 Declan O’Keefe was a founding member of CIL who sadly passed away on Thursday, 3 October… read more →
CREATE is a new initiative from ILMI and stands for ‘Creating Raised Expectations and Aspirations Towards Employment’. The project will work with disabled people to develop their confidence and skills… read more →
Then I learned some more Pat Ingoldsby – See Original Poem Tool used to monitor learning – Partners Training for Transformation p.123 Verses from SFC participants I used to believeDisability… read more →
In this week’s Strategies for Change session, we had James Crawley (Policy Officer with ILMI) talking to us about disability policy. He told us that central to the way ILMI… read more →
In the this week’s ILMI E-Bulletin, Peter Kearns will follow-on from his previous article on the power of language by exploring how we use the phrase ‘Lived Experience of Disability’.… read more →
ILMI continues to roll-out social model led Zoom and TEAMS on-line Disability Equality Training (DET) to mainstream Irish institutions. This month’s DET Zooms particularly addressed supporting university youth work studies… read more →
Changing attitudes and behaviours is key to ensuring that disabled people in the Irish Republic feel safe within their mainstream local communities. ILMI very much recognises that disability related harassment… read more →
By Sarah Fitzgerald (This blog has been inspired by a group of stories which I hope will be published soon, called Conversations about Activism and Change) It was never my… read more →