Publication Date
March 2019
32 p, ill.
This Collection is a joint initiative of the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) and the European Disability Forum (EDF). It features examples from different EU Member States, which to a different extent facilitate the right to live independently in the community.
The examples are divided into four areas, presented in different chapters:
- Legislation and funding: State Funded Peer-Counselling – Estonia; Direct Payments – Ireland.
- Community-based support: Peer-Counselling for women with disabilities – Austria; Supported living for adults with intellectual disabilities – Croatia; Supported Decision-Making – The Czech Republic; Mobile Mental Health Units – Greece; Personal Assistance for People with Complex Disabilities – Sweden .
- Involvement of disabled people: Co-Production in Social Care – United Kingdom; Participation of Organisations of People with Disabilities – Italy
- Self-advocacy: Self-Advocacy of Disabled People – Romania
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Keywords
Disability and community; independent living; Programme/ Project; raising funds and writing grants; Rehabilitation; management (service delivery); therapeutic (treatment); programmes and projects; Inclusion; participation; Cross-cutting; advocacy; organisations of persons with disabilities (ODP); Health; mental health; empowerment
