Independent Living Skills - Community Healthcare West

Project partners work to secure delivery of training during COVID-19! 

Project partners of the Independent Living Skills, Community Healthcare West Project have been working throughout the summer in Galway and Mayo to plan safe delivery of training into the autumn. 

Training will be delivered to participants who had started just 2 days training before the crisis hit. Our new plan of training delivery has only been made possible with the valued expert role of each partner organisation including Brothers of Charity Ireland- Galway, Ability West, Galway City Partnership, GCP and Galway Roscommon Education Training Board, GRETB, all working together throughout the summer to bring this plan together. 

We look forward to having all participants together starting next week. Training will now be delivered accross an extended 8 weeks, to a limit of 2 hours per class, in a safe supported environment, see fliers of information below: 

Project Information including Upcoming Training:

Project Information for Staff:

Basic Cookery for Healthy Eating - start date of 24 September at 10:30am in the Westside Resource Centre, Galway: 

Basic Cookery for Healthy Eating - start date of 24 September at 1pm in the Westside Resource Centre, Galway: 

Basic Cookery for Healthy Eating - start date of 25 September, Westside Resource Centre, Galway: 

Project Background

The Independent Living Skills, Community Healthcare West Project is a regional project covering Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. It gives a formal space to allow voluntary disability organisations providing services for people with intellectual disabilities to work together with every Local Development Company and Education Training Board in the region.

The project will provide training for people with intellectual disabilities on independent living through their local community. 

DFI is leading this project, in collaboration with the Brothers of Charity Ireland- Galway and Roscommon, Ability West, Western Care Association, Mayo Community Living, Proactive Carers Galway, South West Mayo Development Company, Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Galway City Partnership, Galway Rural Development, Roscommon LEADER Partnership Company, Mayo Sligo Leitrim Education Training Board and Galway Roscommon Education Training Board. 

This project is supported through the Dormant Accounts Fund.