The Person Centre
Marlinstown Office Park
Mullingar
Co. Westmeath

Tel: +353 (0)44 9385940

Email: info@thepersoncentre.ie

The Person Centre was established as a non-profit organisation in March 2008 and is an Irish registered Company.

Our Company Reg no. 454839


A Day in the Life

A national cross-disability and mental health public event
The Round Room adjacent to The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Monday 19th April 2010

Photo of Thorkil Sonne, Madeleine Clarke and Paul O'Hara at "A Day in the Life"Photo of Mildred Dillon, Ann Dillon and Tara Cunningham at "A Day in the Life"

There was over-whelming support for the national cross-disability and mental health public event “A Day in the Life”, which took place in Dublin city centre on Monday 19th April 2010. It is the first time that 16 key organisations from across the disability and mental health sectors in Ireland have joined forces to express solidarity for the transition to individualised supports for people with disabilities and mental health difficulties in Ireland.

For further details see www.genio.ie.

 

 

Genio Trust

The Office of Disability and Mental Health, Department of Health and Children; the Health Service Executive; and GENIO invite applications for funding from groups and organisations that:

  • provide personalised support and are focused on changing the lives of identified individuals with disabilities or mental health difficulties;
  • contribute to overall aims of increasing availability of personalised supports in other focused and strategic ways.

This fund comprising of €3,665,000 combines an allocation of health innovation funding announced in this year’s budget by Minister John Moloney and an allocation from the Atlantic Philanthropies.

For more information see: www.genio.ie

 

 

 

Our new name GENIO

We are delighted to announce that we are changing our organisation name from The Person Centre to GENIO. The Person Centre name was leading to confusion in that some people understood it to mean that we were running a direct provision centre and it was also proving confusing to those we are trying to engage outside the sector. We are no less committed to person-centeredness under our new title. 

Our mission: "To accelerate the availability of proven, cost-effective, personalised supports and information, enabling people at risk of social exclusion to lead full lives."

Our website genio.ie will be up and running shortly, where we hope to provide more comprehensive information and resources.

 

The organisation’s objectives are to:

  • Promote effective, cost-efficient supports and opportunities for disadvantaged and vulnerable people;
  • Foster and capacity-build cross-sector collaboration between key stakeholders (disadvantaged people, statutory agencies, NGOs and private/philanthropic organizations);
  • Collate and disseminate information on good practice;
  • Provide technical assistance (e.g. strategic and operational planning, sourcing funding, convening and facilitating, supporting communications and advocacy, administrative and management support);
  • Offer independent evaluation.