Coffee Morning ..Clonakilty First Autism Friendly Town

Well done to TY students Malina Helms and Anouk Gressly , and also Fifth Year student, Aoife Godwin Coombs,who participated in a very successful coffee morning last Saturday, April 29th in the Parochial Hall.

Aoife, Anouk and Malina

Clonakilty is Ireland’s First Autism Friendly town in Ireland.  In order to acquire this designation Clonakilty had to go through a robust accreditation process. It had to engage and train 25% of businesses and voluntary organisations, train 50% of public services, 50% of school communities, 50% of healthcare professionals, 3 employers and reach and engage 25% of the town’s population and develop a three-year Autism Friendly town plan. To date 212 organisations have been accredited with more organisations in the process of also being designated Autism Friendly Champions.

What makes Clonakilty Autism Friendly?

The Autism Friendly organisations in Clonakilty are accredited “Autism Friendly Champions”.  These organisations will display a sticker on the entrance of their premises to sign post they are champions. They will also display the Service Dog Friendly sticker to signal that they welcome service dogs on their premises.