ILMI eBulletin the 7th of February 2025

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ILMI presentation to SICAP managers
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ILMI made a presentation to the Irish Local Development Network (ILDN) Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme (SICAP) managers on Tuesday 4th February.

SICAP addresses high and persistent levels of deprivation through targeted and innovative, locally-led approaches. It supports disadvantaged communities and individuals including unemployed people, people living in deprived areas, people with disabilities, single parent families, people on a low income, members of the Traveller and Roma community and other disadvantaged groups.

ILMI Development Officer Peter Kearns and CEO Damien Walshe presented to SICAP managers on the role of ILMI as a Disabled Persons Organisation. Peter outlined the work ILMI is doing in supporting the development of local DPOs across the country and how that work has been supported by SICAP.

An interactive questions and answers session started some dialogue and how local DPOs operate and ILMI hope to work with ILDN members in the months and years ahead.

Sligo DPO
Image description: Group of eleven people sitting in a semi-circle during the workshop.

On Friday 31st of January Sligo Disabled Person’s Organisation held its first Disability Equality Workshop in Cranmore Abbeyquarter Community Centre Sligo . We had some of our own members in attendance as well as HSE staff and some nursing students from St Angela’s College Sligo. Thank you to everyone who attended and to our members and DPO Development officer Peter Kearns from Independent Living Movement Ireland who facilitated the workshop together. Here’s to the first of many more workshops.

If you are a disabled person living in Co Sligo and would like to find out more about us or become a member of Sligo DPO please email sligodpo@gmail.com . Alternatively, you can message us on our Facebook page.

If you would like to enquire about Disability Equality Training workshops that we run please contact sligodpo@gmail.com or send us a message on our Facebook page.
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