RNIB and Guide Dogs NI offer first of its kind sight loss training for school counsellors

Led by RNIB NI (The Royal National Institute of Blind People), in partnership with Guide Dogs NI, the Counselling Insight Project is a two-year venture that received £80,207 of funding from the Department of Health Mental Health Fund, administered by Community Foundation NI. Counselling Insight panel members, Martin Walls and Andrea Begley; RNIB NI Country Director Robert Shilliday and Amanda Hawkins, Head of Mental Health and Counselling, Confident Living & Skills Development, RNIB “I felt isolated at school” Those are the words of Leah Tylor as two NI sight loss…

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