The Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI), will host a self-advocacy sharing and learning event for member organisations on Tuesday 09 April. The ‘Making Advocacy Real’ event will take place Clayton Hotel Galway from 10:30am to 1:30pm
Registration is open now. Reserve your space here. Lunch will be provided.
Please note this event is aimed at people who are working for member organisations in a management or decision making role. For example Programme facilitators, coordinators, managers etc.
This event follows on from DFI’s self-advocacy learning event which took place in Cork last November.
Commenting about the event, DFI’s PJ Cleere said, “This event is being offered by DFI in response to requests from our member organisations. The event will offer attendees an opportunity to reflect on best practice in self-advocacy and to work towards the development of a DFI Self-Advocacy Toolkit.”
About the DFI Self-Advocacy Programme
The DFI Self-Advocacy Programme is a partnership between DFI, our member organisations, key workers and self-advocates. Through this programme DFI is working to support member organisations to promote, develop, and strengthen self-advocacy in their organisations. Today’s event was another step in the journey and was underpinned by the principles in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We look forward to continuing this important work with our members to develop best practice in self-advocacy programmes.
What is Self-Advocacy?
Self-advocacy is essentially the action of communicating and representing one’s needs, views or interests. It is about understanding your rights, speaking up, taking action and taking control of one’s life. Where people cannot speak up for themselves they are supported to do so by others. Effective self-advocacy will mean that a person has good information, training, the right support when needed, opportunities to learn by doing, confidence in themselves and will understand that self-advocacy can be at an individual or group level.
For further information
Contact act Áine O’Sullivan - Community Development Officer aineosullivan@disability-federation.ie
