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.
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.
Centre for Indepedant Living Movement