Community News & Events

Dear Support Persons & Young Adults,

The Inclusion Ireland Connect Family Network in partnership with the Laois & Offaly Children and Young People’s Service Committee (CYPSC) will be offering a course for ten young adults with intellectual disability, aged 16-24, in career guidance and transitions.   The course will begin with an in-person session from 10:30-1:30 on Saturday 17^th January at the Darmagh Centre in Tullamore.    At this session, participants will be given a workbook to guide the online sessions to further explore vision, finding one’s voice, will and preference, goals,  pathways, and planning.  The facilitator is Suzanne Bradley of Lead Together.  Suzanne is dynamic and passionate about the journey and the building of capacity within a person to achieve dreams, goals, and aspirations.

There will be five follow up sessions online on Wednesdays, 7-8 pm:

21 & 28     January

4 & 11     February

4                     March

If interested, please get in touch as soon as possible as this course is open only to the first ten applicants.   Given the limited places in this workshop, it is asked that the young person commit to each of the sessions.

Emerging adulthood is the time of life from 18-35 years of age. This time of life can be exciting. It can also be uncertain.

Join us for a short online course to explore what emerging adulthood means for young adults with intellectual disabilities and their families facilitated by Eilín de Paor and Karen Henderson.

The series will take place across 3 evenings – Tuesday 12, 19 and 26 May from 7.30 – 8.45pm.

Click here for more information and to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lZEsNoRwQPSsJPIEYWqnwg#/registration

Edenderry FET Open Day

The day is running from 9.30am to 1.30pm where we will have teachers for our courses available to chat and answer any questions next year’s learners might have.