Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living (LCIL)
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Dee Martin
Email
Project funding
£84,773
Funding round
The Leicester Centre for Integrated Living provides services to disabled parents and their families in some of the most deprived wards of the city. The project:
- Is open to both partners
- Meets the access needs of disabled parents
- Enables disabled parents to engage more fully in family and community life
Contact will be made by phone, email or letter to either provide face to face support, give information and emotional support. The home visits provide a 'stepping stone' for:
- disabled parents to our support groups, parenting groups, or engage with the side community in which they and their children live
- support groups that meet the access needs of disabled parents, provide peer support, reduce isolation and promote social inclusion by meeting within their community and will explore the potential to be self sustaining in the long term
- parenting and information sessions that work within the framework of the Parenting UK's 'Core Curriculum' and 'LCIL's Social model of Disabilty
We will continue to work with the Leicester Parenting Strategy by promoting a 'social model' of disability and ensuring that disabled parents' are involved in its development and implementation.