INDEPENDENT LIVING MOVEMENT

 

Independent Living is now recognised world-wide as the best way forward to mainstream all aspects of the lives of people with disabilities.

The concept of independent Living was first brought to light in California in the late 1960's. From there it spread through the rest of the U. S. to Europe, the UK, and has been established in Ireland since 1992.

ln 1992 the Irish Centre for Independent Living was set up as a limited company as a practical manifestation of the Irish Independent Living Movement.
CIL is a consumer led organisation run by and for the physically disabled.
It aims to empower and enable us to achieve independence and self determination to exercise choice and to have control of our own lives.

We must also accept the responsibilities and disciplines that come with this freedom if we are to break the stereotype of us as passive! resigned recipients of caring services provided by paternalistic and charity-led organisation.

 

Indepedant Living Fund

Other CILs in Ireland

Centre for Indepedant Living Movement

About The CIL Mayo