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PrintIn Genio we endeavour to compile any research and information we have gathered that may be of public interest and make it available on our website. Please see a list below of Genio publications to-date along with links to download the documents.
Reports & Booklets
Genio Brochure
Real, positive and lasting social change
Genio is a pioneering non-profit organisation that works with the public, private and non-profit sectors to stimulate and support social innovation in Ireland that has lasting impact.
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'Social Innovation - Making it Work' event programme
A national event facilitated by Genio, the Convention Centre Dublin, 28th September 2011
This event was supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies in collaboration with the Office for Disability and Mental Health, Department of Health and the HSE. This event offered the opportunity to learn from leaders who are 'Making it Work' in the disability and mental health sectors supported through the 2010 Genio Trust innovation grant scheme. Presentations illustrated how group-based, institutional services are being refocused towards cost-effective individualised, community-based supports. There was also focus on overcoming the barriers to 'scaling up', so that as many individuals as possible are supported to live full lives in the community.
The event looked at how this model of supporting innovation in the disability and mental health sectors could be successfully replicated across other social sectors, combining government and philanthropic efforts.
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Genio Trust 2010 - 2011
In 2010 Genio established the Genio Trust to identify and support innovative practice across the social service arena. Beginning in the disability and mental health area a fund of €3.8m was used to provide grants to innovative projects throughout Ireland. This combined contributions from Government Health Innovation funds and from the Atlantic Philanthropies. In all 51 grants were awarded on the basis of rigorous evaluation against criteria which emerged as a result of consultation and in agreement with funders. This booklet provides an overview of the projects supported by the Genio Trust in 2010 - 2011.
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A Day in the Life
Personal experiences of disability and mental health difficulty
This booklet offers an insight into the lives of six people with disabilities and mental health difficulties, their families, friends and supporters. There are no heroes in here. The stories reflect the aspirations of people who wish to live lives which are neither extraordinary nor indeed less ordinary, but simply, as one contributor puts it, "to be able to go out into the community and do the normal things that people do."
Featuring Aoibheann Foley, Don Bailey, Kevin Kennedy, Diarmaid Ring, John Murtagh and Ann Dillon.
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A Day in the Life
Public event programme
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.
Delegates had the opportunity to learn first-hand from the lived experiences of people with disabilities and mental health difficulties who spoke in-person at the event and also through video footage screened during the day. This was complemented by presentations from individuals and organisations providing perspectives on the strategic and implementation challenges involved in transitioning from group or institutional settings to individualised supports.
This programme outlines all the speakers from the day as well as listing the key organisations who supported the event.
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Genio Report 2009
Disability and Mental Health in Ireland: Searching out good practice
This is a report of research carried out in Ireland to identify initiatives which support people with disabilities and mental health difficulties in ways that are person-centred and encourage self-determination. The report also describes a set of criteria which were developed to assess the extent the practice of these initiatives was person-centred and cost-effective. A selected review of international literature is included in the report.
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