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User involvement in service provision

User involvement in service provision. Belgrade 13-14 December 2013 www.easpd.eu. With support from the European Union Progress Programme. The UNCRPD. In 2007, the United Nations passed a new law: people with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else

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User involvement in service provision

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  1. User involvement inservice provision Belgrade 13-14 December 2013 www.easpd.eu With support from the European Union Progress Programme.

  2. The UNCRPD In 2007, the United Nations passed a new law: • people with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else • The European Union ratified it in 2010 • Serbiaratified the Convention in 2009, so the content of the convention is now part of the Serbian law

  3. The UNCRPD Article 17 Treating disabled people as people first • Right to be treated the same as everyone else with the same respect and rights Article 19 Independent living and being part of the community

  4. The UNCRPD Article 28 Standards of living • Equal right to a good standard of living • Help and support to improve standard of living Article 22 Right to privacy

  5. HOW CAN YOU INVOLVESERVICE USERS? • Invite persons with a disability to participate in every research work concerning them • Involve persons with a disability in the recruitment of your staff

  6. HOW CAN YOU INVOLVESERVICE USERS? • Make persons with a disability part of the board of the organisation • Use accessible and easy-to-read communication to reach persons with an intellectual disability

  7. What EASPD can do • Awareness-raising • Collect good practice examples and sharewith the membership • Policy implementation • Encourage full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of PersonswithDisabilities, aiming to fullyinvolvepersonswith a disability in society and in the services supportingthem • Partnership • WorktogetherwithDisabled People Organisations and consultwiththemwhendraftingpolicypapers • Accessibility • Improveaccessibility of documents

  8. EASPD Av. d’Auderghem 63 / Oudergemselaan B – 1040 Brussels Tel +32 2 282 46 10 – Fax +32 2 230 72 33 www.easpd.eu - info@easpd.eu

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