Results List
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Disability
Our work on behalf of people with disabilities has focused on designing customized programs and services that meet the needs of each individual.
Resource type: Issues
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A Case Study in Policy Entrepreneurship: The Centre for Disability Law & Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway
Source: Susan Parker
Carefully researched studies are essential for advocates to make persuasive arguments to legislators and for policymakers to make informed decisions. But too often academic research is disconnected from the real world concerns of those who make or wish to influence policy. The Centre for Disability…
Resource type: Research Report
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Disability Action
Atlantic supported building the capacity of Disability Action to influence policy that promotes the rights of disabled people, who account for one in five people in part due to Northern Ireland's history of violent conflict.
Resource type: Video
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A Day in a Life With Disability
Source: Genio Trust
Don Bailey, who navigates life in a wheelchair, spent most of his early life living in institutional care. When he left St. Joseph’s Hospital in Coole, Ireland at age twenty and moved to Dublin to work, he found the challenges of living on his own…
Resource type: News
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Code of Ethics
1. Purpose The Atlantic Code of Ethics sets forth standards that we should follow when we engage in Atlantic business or in activities that could reflect on Atlantic. The Code applies worldwide, complementing local policies specific to our individual offices. We must respect both the…
Resource type: Page
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M.Sc. in Disability Studies at Trinity College Dublin
Source: Trinity College Dublin
A video description of the M.Sc. in Disability studies programme at Trinity College Dublin, including interviews with lecturers and graduate students. The masters programme focuses on understanding disability from social, historical, cultural, economic, and political perspectives. Trinity Foundation is an Atlantic grantee.
Resource type: Video
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Longer lives don't mean more disability: study
Source: Reuters
by Amy Norton More and more people are living into their 90s and beyond, but that may not mean a large cost to society in terms of medical care, a new study suggests. In a study that followed a group of Danish adults born in…
Resource type: News
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Don Bailey – A personal experience of disability
Source: Genio
This video highlights Don Bailey's personal story of disability as compiled by Genio, an Atlantic grantee that works to ensure that disabled people have the support necessary to live full lives in their communities.
Resource type: Video
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Disability Action
$6,121,166
Resource type: Grantee
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“A Day in the Life” A national cross-disability and mental health public event
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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…
Resource type: News