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Advocacy Training

Sligo Home to World's First Training Course in Advocacy

By Patrick O'Leary, Communications, Equality Authority

The first distance education course in the world to train advocates for people who are disabled or marginalised in some way has just been launched by Institute of Technology Sligo, in partnership with Comhairle and the Equality Authority.

Advocacy is a practice of negotiation by or on behalf of individuals who are marginalised or vulnerable. It has particular links with the disability movement. Advocacy practice involves empowering people to speak and lobby on their own behalf, through training, education and life experience.

The idea for the course, which is accredited by Institute of Technology Sligo, came from people working in Citizens Information Centres around the country and from Comhairle's new advocacy role in the recent Disability Bill. Accredited training was needed to enable them fulfil their advocacy role.

Photo of the Dublin Castle launch of the World's First Training Course in Advocacy

(Photo: At the Dublin Castle launch (LtoR) Mr Ivor Callely, Minister of State at the Dept. of Transport, Niall Crowley, CEO, Equality Authority, Leonie Lunny, CEO, Comhairle and Dr. Richard Thorn, IT Sligo)

The course consists of 12 modules over two years. It will deal with Advocacy, Equality Studies, Communications, Law, Disability Awareness, Information. Management, Ethics, and Social Administration, and includes a project or work placement. Because students are scattered around the country, the course will be delivered by distance learning and via the internet, backed up by monthly seminars.

Mr Ivor Callely, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, launched the Higher Certificate in Advocacy Studies in Dublin Castle on 8 November 2004, underlining the importance of advocacy in empowering groups and individuals in accessing rights. This course would ensure the provision of advocates with the education, motivation and ambition to deliver front-line services to marginalised people. Other speakers included, Dr. Perry Share, Head of the Dept. of Humanities, IT Sligo, Dr. Richard Thorn, Director, IT Sligo, Leonie Lunny, CEO, Comhairle and Niall Crowley, CEO, Equality Authority and they wished every success to students and partners in the programme.

For further information on the Higher Certificate in Humanities in Advocacy Studies at Institute of Technology Sligo, please contact:

Dr Perry Share, Head, Department of Humanities,
Tel: 071-91 55340, mobile: 086-3081429

or

Elizabeth O'Neill, Department of Lifelong Learning,
Tel: 071-91 37215

Note: This article is taken from the Winter 2004 edition of Equality News.

Related articles:

Equality News Winter 2004
The Winter 2004 edition of the Equality Authority's newsletter

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