The IISC Ireland Story
Our work began in partnership with the Belfast-based Workers Educational Association (WEA). WEA invited IISC to Northern Ireland to partner with them in their effort to build capacity for leadership across the community divide in Derry, Belfast, and the rural parts of the country.
Since then, IISC has transferred the skills and tools of collaboration to thousands of change agents and community leaders through workshops in leadership development, conflict resolution, facilitating change, and partnership building. In addition, through our Train the Trainer program, we built a network of IISC trained consultants and began to lay the foundation for establishing an IISC presence in both the North and the South. Over the years, the network of IISC trained leaders has evolved and they have continued to invite us to partner with them in their social change initiatives. Our clients have included the Springfield Interface Community Project, the Civic Forum in Northern Ireland, and, more recently, the West Belfast Advice Forum. In the South, we have hosted several open to the public Facilitative Leadership workshops and have worked throughout the Women’s Sector and with staff of City and County Development Boards.
Most recently, we joined with the Institute for Public Health in an effort to advance its ambitious mission to provide leadership to combat inequalities in healthby increasing the capacity of those working to build a healthy society. A collaborative effort between the Health Ministries of the North and the South, this initiative is a historic first.
Building on the power of partnerships like these, the strength of our relationships and the depth of our commitment, IISC opened our first satellite office in Europe. Our services are now even more widely available to an expanding network of global change agents.
Ireland Clients
- Advice Northern Ireland
- Age Concern Northern Ireland
- Atlantic Philanthropies, Belfast/Dublin
- Belfast City Council
- Community Foundation for Northern Ireland
- Donegal Travellers Project
- Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council, Dublin
- Fabry International Network
- Finglas/Cabra Local Drugs Task Force, Dublin
- Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Belfast/Dublin
- Irish Council for Civil Liberties
- Mater Hospital, Belfast
- National Women’s Council of Ireland
- North Belfast Partnership, Northern Ireland
- Pavee Point Travelers’ Center, Dublin
- Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland
- Royal College of Physicians, Dublin
- Southern Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland
- The Changing Aging Partnership, Northern Ireland
- West Belfast Advice Forum
- Workers Educational Association, Belfast
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