The National Centre for Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health is launching on Friday 13 October.

We will say Centre for short.

The Centre will help people with intellectual disability have better health.

It will help by

• Talking to people with intellectual disability about what they need

• Talking with researchers about research that needs to be done

• Talking with health care workers to make sure they are doing the right things for people with intellectual disability

CID has been asking for the Centre for a long time.

The health system does not do a good job for people with intellectual disability.

CID did a campaign about making the health system better for people with intellectual disability.

A campaign is a big plan to show the government what we want.

Part of the campaign was asking for the Centre. The government listened and agreed.

The Centre will look into making health care better for people with intellectual disability.

The Centre will make sure people with intellectual disability are treated the same as everyone else by health services.

The Centre will be launching on Friday 13 October.

This will be the start of the Centre doing its work.

The launch will be online on Friday 13 October starting at 9.45am.

You can register at this link.

They will send an email with a link to join the launch online.

Our Board Chair Fiona McKenzie will be speaking at the launch.