Big Congratulations to St. Cronan’s staff, who are pursuing a Major Healthcare Support Award,as they receive their Certificates on successful completion of a number of the required modules.
Aileen Dooley and Annette Carson receive their certificates.
Sarah Bailey & Rosie O’Riordan receive their certificates.
The HSE is publishing “Draft Interim Standards for New Directions, Services and Supports for Adults with Disabilities” for public consultation for a period of 6 weeks from 8th September to 17th October 2014.
These Draft Interim Standards arise from recommendations in “New Directions, the review of HSE Day Services and Implementation Plan”, published in 2012. New Directions sets out twelve supports that should be available to people using ‘day services’. It proposes that ‘day services’ should take the form of individualised outcome-focussed supports to allow adults using those services live a life of their choosing in accordance with their own wishes, needs and aspirations.
St. Cronans services have been asked to bring this public consultation to the attention of our service users and their families. The National Disability Authority has been working on the draft standards and their website contains a number of links to the draft standards. An Easy to Read Guide to the Draft Interim Standards for New Directions has been prepared for this public consultation. The Easy to Read Guide is also available in four separate parts, formatted for use in facilitated consultation sessions.
You can download the following documents below:
Documents to support the use of the Easy to Read Guide in facilitated consultation sessions, divided into 4 parts, formatted for use in facilitated consultation sessions, and also available in a narrated video version:
How to make a submission:
A number of consultation questions have been prepared for your consideration when reviewing the ‘Draft Interim Standards for New Directions, Services and Supports for Adults with Disabilities’. These questions are in the consultation feedback form. They are not intended, in any way, to limit feedback and any other comments are welcome.
The “Draft Interim Standards for New Directions, Services and Supports for Adults with Disabilities” contain standards and features. You can comment on one or all of them, or you may wish to make general comments. When commenting on a specific standard or feature, please tell us the reference number of the standard or feature that you are commenting on (e.g. Standard 3.1 or Feature 4.1.2).
If you have any questions, you can contact Anne Melly by emailing anne.melly@hse.ie
The closing date for submissions is 5:00pm on October 17th 2014.
You can email consultation feedback to this email address: standards@nda.ie
You can post consultation feedback to this address:
Ruth O’Reilly,
Consultation on Draft Interim Standards for New Directions,
National Disability Authority,
25 Clyde Road,
Dublin 4.
Photograph of Liam Seymour with former Tipperary Manager and player Liam Sheedy. Both Liam’s were attending a breakfast briefing with Tipperary Legends in the Abbey Court Hotel organized by North Tipperary branch of Alzheimer’s Society.
The format used was a questions and answers session in which Damien Lawlor, well known Tipperary journalist and Sunday Independent sports writer addressed questions to Tipperary Legends, Liam Sheedy, Len Gaynor and Tommy Dunne.
After much debate Liam was delighted to hear that all three guests were predicting a Tipperary victory
Invitation to Information Sessions
New Directions – Personal Support Services for People with Disabilities was published by the HSE in 2012. This document sets out the future vision for the provision of day services to people with Intellectual Disability, Physical and Sensory Disabilities and Autism that have a requirement for a HSE funded day service.
You are invited to attend an Information Session which will give details of the Draft Interim Standards that have been developed to support the delivery of the personal support services for people with disabilities contained in New Directions. These Information Sessions will launch the Consultative Process in relation to the Draft Interim Standards and following from these sessions you will have 1 month to make a submission on any aspects of the Draft Interim Standards.
Booking Details
The information session details are set out in the attached booking form. To book a place at one of these sessions, please complete the Booking Form and email to sandra.cogan@hse.ie or send to Sandra Cogan, HSE Disability Services, Bective Street, Kells, Co. Meath before 27th August 2014.
Our Birr Special Olympians Des McDonagh and Alison Rock,
who recently came home with gold medals after representing Leinster in Bowling
at the All Ireland 2014, National games in Limerick.
Green Flag Committee Formed at St. Cronans
After much debate St. Cronan’s Green Flag Committee was formed in September 2013. The purpose of this committee is to achieve Green Flag status, an environmental standard awarded by An Taisce. To achieve this standard the committee must implement a programme of seven steps. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Annual Street Collections for 2014;
St. Cronans Annual Street Collections take place on the following dates;
Thurles Town Friday 23rd May
Nenagh Town Friday 29th August
Birr Town Friday 5th September
Roscrea Town Friday 12th September
St. Cronans are looking for volunteers to assist us and man the tables on our collection days. If anyone can assist or help out on the day, you can contact us on 0505 21426 or info@cronans.ie.
Thanks!
Memorial Garden
The willows group started this project in September 2012. The group designed the layout of the garden themselves. This included a patio area, a bench to sit on and a low maintenance garden which was planted with shrubs and a mulch of bark chips was placed around them. The clients made the bench themselves and the bird table to encourage wildlife.
We made a raised flower bed which was planted with summer bedding plants which they grew from seed themselves. The clients now enjoy sitting and relaxing in the peaceful surroundings. The group decided to dedicate this garden to a deceased former member of the group and a plaque was erected in his memory.
Team Hope
Service users are busy helping “Team Hope” with their Christmas shoe box appeal. This has become an annual event in St. Cronans; it provides service users with the ideal oppurtunity to give something back to the community.
The shoeboxes are covered with Christmas paper and filled with items for children. Service users here in St. Cronans look forward to this project each year. The boxes are then sent to various destinations around the world for distribution to Children living on the Margins of Society, victims of war, disease or poverty.
Our Annual Church Gate Collection schedules for 2013 are as follows;
Nenagh, Roscrea, Camblin, Carrig, Puckane, Toomevara, Grennanstown, Ballinree, Silvermines, Ballinaclough and Ardcroney Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December 2013.
We are looking for volunteers to man the tables. Anyone who can help please contact us on 0505-21426 or info@cronans.ie.
