Strong Voices

The success of IHC’s foray into big data with the 2023 publication of From Data to Dignity: Health and Wellbeing Indicators for New Zealanders with Intellectual Disability, has led the IHC Board to approve funding for six additional research projects.

Maureen Wood, a courageous, committed and intelligent leader in IHC and beyond, died in October. Ralph Jones, IHC Group Chief Executive, paid tribute.

IHC Chief Executive Ralph Jones retired at the end of 2024 after 33 years at IHC and more than two decades as Chief Executive.

2024’s AGM, held in Wellington on 1 November, was a special event. We celebrated 75 years of IHC with seven of our IHC New Zealand Life Members, and we named another three.

It's a Friday feast every week at the Kai Kitchen for locals looking to share food and company.

Despite facing one of the biggest tests of her life, dairy farmer Kaye Quinlan will be on the road again this winter raising money for families living with intellectual disability.

More than 370 volunteers from 26 IDEA Services areas are now signed up to serve their communities as part of the Student Volunteer Army (SVA) Service Award.

Roy and Val Schroder were childhood sweethearts. They met when they travelled together by taxi to Bronte School in Nelson.

Lynne Stringer and Sharon Anderson live two doors away from each other in Gore and they like it that way.

IHC is expanding its Family-Whānau Liaison team into Waikato to make sure more families caring for people with intellectual disabilities can get the help they need.