Board members and staff profiles
The Directors are:
Anna Nolan Fitzmaurice, (Chairperson), Dawn Hunt, (Treasurer) Noelín Fox, (Secretary) Muireann Moyles, John Walker and Michelle Coe.
Anna Nolan Fitxmaurice the Chairperson is Head of Quality, Enhancement & Development with the West Region, Brothers of Charity Services Ireland.
Dawn Hunt, Treasure of StepIn is Principal Clinical Psychologist with the West Region, Brothers of Charity Services Ireland.
Raymond Watson has been in a number of roles for StepIn. He has worked in the area of supports for people with intellectual disabilities for the past 30 years. In 2002, Raymond started working for the Open Training College, which provides accessible and flexible educational opportunities for staff in disability and human services. He was the social care course director for 10 years before becoming the head of online learning, then Assistant College Director. Raymond is also on the board of Health Action Overseas. HAO supports seven people in Constanta, Romania, who were institutionalised, to live in the community.Raymond hopes he can be a good support for the independent, inclusive, innovative model that allows people to live in their communities, that StepIn delivers.
Dr. Noelin Fox is the secretary of StepIn. She has worked with people with intellectual disabilities for more than 20 years in various places in the west of Ireland. Currently, she is Head of Department at the Department of Social Sciences at TUS Athlone Campus.
What impresses her most about StepIn is, firstly, how well the members manage to live good lives in their own homes in their communities and, secondly, the ways in which members support each other – the two things which mark out StepIn as a great way forward for people with disabilities.
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Muireann Moyles and John Walker as employees of Brothers of Charity Services Ireland and Michelle O'Reilly-Coe, St. Christopher's Services, Longford bring a wealth of experience to the StepIn board.
Non-director Board member: Anna Shakespeare works with Pobal and volunteers on the Board of Drogheda Women and Children’s Refuge and on the Governing Body of Dundalk Institute of Technology. Anna is also passionate about supporting individuals to independence.
Network members: Aoife Hegarty and Anne Marie Donnelly are non-director members of the board. Their experiences as members bring a new dimension to decision-making and aid understanding of the best networks and the best way to develop networks.
Louise Coll is our Supported Living Coordinator. A major part of her role is to build and maintain good working relationships with other agencies involved in supporting the network and the members – this includes the county council, the Community Welfare Service, local housing associations and disability service providers and the Department of Social Protection, the Gardaí and so forth.
Louise has more than ten years' experience working from residential care to supported living and community mentoring.
She is a strong advocate of StepIn's mission. " The support is person-centred and specifically tailored to meet every unique need, underpinned by the philosophy that every individual has the right to live the life they choose for themselves," she says. "Needs are built around the network members rather than you fitting into a service."
