Community Advocacy News
CIICA - still growing! This is our space for shared news and here are just a few to start us off. People told us that they are keen to share news and information, so we don't "reinvent the wheel!".
We welcome short items here with a link to your site – and we will be providing more space for stories about successful advocacy too. Help us to make this an interesting and exciting space! Please send your brief contribution to info@ciicanet.org . We look forward to hearing from you.
EURO-CIU SUMMER CAMP for Teenagers: SUCCESS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
The EURO-CIU summer camp for teenagers with CI was this year organised by SUKI, the Czech organisation and member of EURO-CIU. This is a great opportunity for these young people from across Europe to meet up and to gain independence while making new friends.1 August 2024Read more
NOMINATE YOUR HIGH ACHIEVER IN MEMORY OF CLAIRE CAMPBELL
AVUK announces the opening for entries of the Claire Campbell achievement awards which recognise the achievements of deaf children, young people and adults. Find out how to enter here.1 August 2024Read more
PINDROP LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE
PINDROP, successfully supporting increased access to cochlear implants in New Zealand, shares its new website: do have a look! Nic Russell shares the new development - PINDROP supports CIICA's activities.1 August 2024Read more
RALLY CAPS THE MOVIE
Rally Caps the movie focuses on the ability in disability and portrays strong deaf characters with cochlear implants who use listening and spoken language. This family film will spark many conversations, smashing hearing loss related stigma, so that our children will no longer need to explain their hearing technology, because they will be "Just like Lucas and Niki!"21 March 2024Read more
OPCI: LIVING ROOM MEETINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS!
OPCI, the CI users and family group in the Netherlands runs regular groups in people's living rooms - read about why they are popular and who attends! Over 1,500 attendees so far!22 November 2023Read more
REHABILITATION FOR ADULTS: THE VIEW FROM AUSTRIA
Rehabilitation for adults is a key issue for advocacy and here Tobias Fischer of Austria shares the results of their survey about the needs for adult services in Austria.17 November 2023Read more
SWEDISH CI STATISTICS FROM BARNPLANTORNA
CI statistics are vital for advocacy work and often not available. Ann Charlotte Gyllenram has collected them in Sweden for Barnplantorna for many years and has just completed those for 2016 -2020. They show that Ci availability is far below and depends where you live. See the press release.5 October 2023Read more
NEW SENSORY FUNCTIONS TOOLKIT FROM WHO
The WHO Vision and Eye Care & Ear and Hearing Care Programmes have the pleasure to announce the publication of the Routine Health Information Systems – Sensory Functions toolkit. The toolkit aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through a standard set of core facility indicators that guide data collection and reporting. FIND OUT MORE HERE.8 August 2023Read more
