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Project: IDPLiving- Development
of a training program for boosting and facilitating the community living
of people with intellectual disabilities |
Duration: 24 months (from 01/10/2017 to 30/09/2019)
Partners:
Coordinator: Cercioeiras(Portugal)
AMICA (Espagne)
COPAVA (Espagne)
E-SENIORS (France)
Hrvatska udruga radnih terapeuta (Croatie)
CECD MIRA SINTRA (Portugal)
5 to 15 million EU citizens have an
intellectual disability; we can multiply per 5 the number of persons involved
in the support to these persons, including families and professionals.
Intellectual Disability depends
crucially on how environmental factors support the Intellectual Disabled
Persons (IDPs) full participation and inclusion in society. Article 19 “Living
independently and being included in the community” of Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2006) recognizes the equal right of all
persons with disabilities to live in the community, including, among other that
have the opportunity to choose their place of residence and where and with whom
they live and are not obliged to live in a particular living arrangement.
This project aims to enable individuals
to live in the community but out of the institutions. Comparative studies on
quality of Community-Based settings vs. Institutions show that people living in
community settings fared better on almost every quality of life indicator.
Objectives:
·
Raise awareness and motivate the whole
collective about the capabilities for IDPs’IL
·
Boost the evolution of IDPs to Accommodation
and Supported Housing, and Full Independency, really enhancing their Quality of
Life.
·
Transfer guidelines about how to develop basic
daily routines in the main contexts of IDPs’life,
encompassing planning, operational and social-emotional situation.
·
Transfer guidelines about how to exploit
existing easy-to-use ICT Tools that can be used as assistive technologies.
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Provide the trainees with real life experiences
to apply the trained competences during and after training course.
Target Groups: The project activities will be
addressed to 3 target groups:
-Intellectual Disabled Persons
(IDPs): IDPs who are already living independently and have problems dealing
with daily activities and IDPs who can have the opportunity to live
independently in a close future
-Families of IDPs
-Professionals working in the
support of IDPs
Outputs:
·
Co-Created Methodological Guide will be
developed, with the direct participation of End Users (IDPs, relatives and
professionals) with the main objectives of determining the key contents,
methodologies and ICT Tools needed for creating and improving the critical
competences of IDPs and their supports for increasing their Independent Living
in the Community opportunities and possibilities, and therefore their Quality
of Life
·
Training Materials addressed for creating and
improving the critical competences of IDPs, relatives and professionals for
facilitating the improvement of IDPs competences to deal and face real daily
life activities and therefore to enhance their Independent Living
opportunities, out of the Institutions.
·
Designed Experiential Training Activities for
enhancing the practical and experiential training of IDPs, relatives and
professionals in the improvement of IDPs competences to deal and face real
daily life activities, including the optimal and oriented exploitation of
aforementioned Training Materials within real environments.
·
Development of an e-training Platform,
including awareness and training contents, tailored and adapted ICT Tools for
supporting the implementation of Training Materials and Designed Experiential
Training Activities and therefore facilitating the implementation of
Independent Living approaches, concepts and tools.
·
Creation of 5 IDPLiving
UNITS in order to ensure the sustainable exploitation of the projects after the
project lifetime. These units will include professionals trained in the course
methodology and also IDPs mentors that are already living independently in the
Community.
·
Development of Dissemination Actions addressed
to the European collective related IDPs.