News and Events

Save the Date: The second webinar in our Family Leadership Series takes place on Friday 20th November from 11:00am – 12:30pm. The topic of this webinar is: An Introduction to Inclusive EducationThis webinar will focus on the role of families in supporting inclusive...

Save the Date: ‘Developing a vision of an ordinary life for your family member.’ Friday 30th October, 11am-12.30pmThis webinar will focus on the enabling role of families in building an inclusive life for children with intellectual disabilities and/or autism. It will...

We commend the actions that you and your government has taken in light of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure supports and services to those who may have lost their jobs or income and who are at risk of eviction. We support The Wheel’s call to strengthen the Community and...

A Good Life for Everyone in the Family The Cavan Centre, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan 12th to 14th April 2019 Leap is offering family leadership weekends for the whole family to come together in an inclusive, fun environment to begin...

This event is brought to you by The School of Education, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Leap and will bring together people with disabilities, families, academics, policy makers and others to explore a shared vision to shape a culture of inclusive education in...

A three-day workshop on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd March 2019 Venue: CDLP, Institute for Life Course and Society, NUIG, Newcastle Road, Galway Facilitators: Bruce Uditsky, CEO Emeritus & Robin Acton, Past President, Inclusion Alberta Time: 10.00am - 5.00pm each day...

Leap and CDLP are hosting a seminar Date: Tuesday 26th February 2019 from 9:30 – 5:00pm (registration from 9.30am) Venue: Room G008, Institute for Life course and Society, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, Upper Newcastle Road, Galway. Audience: This workshop is...

We are looking for volunteer “family pals” for our ‘Family Leadership Adventure Break on the 7th to 9th June 2019 in the Cavan Centre, Ballyjamesduff. Your role would be to support the families involved in the weekend, to join in and have as much fun as possible and...

This workshop is most suitable for family members, people with disabilities, friends and supporters and people who work in policy or services.

We are pleased to share this, the first evaluation of our work encompassing the period from 2014-2017. We hope that you will enjoy reading this evaluation and that it will demonstrate to you, the reader, that strengths based work with families of children with...

As a result of funding from the HSE Social Care Division we are now able to offer our ‘Supporting Families’ Workshop Series to all CHO Areas. The Workshops on offer are: Creating A Good Life…

We are looking for people who have an interest in supporting people with disabilities and their families to have a good time together…