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Erwin Kargl, Gernot Koren MHE conference : June 2012

The human rights aspects of the access to quality community-based services An example of pro mente Upper Austria. Erwin Kargl, Gernot Koren MHE conference : June 2012. Table of Contents. pro mente upper austria Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Erwin Kargl, Gernot Koren MHE conference : June 2012

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  1. The human rights aspects of the access to quality community-based servicesAn example of pro mente Upper Austria Erwin Kargl, Gernot Koren MHE conference: June 2012

  2. Table of Contents • pro mente upper austria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  3. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  4. pro mente Upper Austria • NGO and NPO since 1964 • One of 22 member organisations of pro mente austria • pro mente Upper Austria has 1400 employees • Upper Austria is one of 9 Federal States of Austria • 1.3 Mio inhabitants

  5. pro mente Upper Austria’s areas of activity • Crisis support • First aid in psychosocial emergency situations • Psychosocial counselling • Developing solutions - Coping strategies for crises - Health promotion • Housing • Accompanying people in need of psychosocial support through everyday life • Mobile care and assistance • On-the-spot help and assistance for people with mental health problems

  6. pro mente Upper Austria’s areas of activity • Vocational Integration • Work and occupation give self-convidence and security • Skill-oriented activity • work and occupation options enable people with psychosocial problems to take active part in social and working life • Leisure and communication • Experiencing greater variety and gaining a foothold in society Mobile care and assistance

  7. pro mente Upper Austria’s areas of activity • Clubhouse • Empowerment means speaking and joining the decision making • Youth • Going a part of the way together • Skill-oriented activity • Addiction • Low-threshold institutions • Outpatient addiction counselling centres • Integration centres and Erlenhof therapy centre • Addiction prevention - Putting research into practice

  8. pro mente Upper Austria’s areas of activity • Voluntary work • Building a bridge to normality and reality • Geropsychiatry • Support for people suffering from dementia and their families • Seminar culture Wesenufer • work and occupation options for psychosocially impaired people • www.promenteooe.at(German) • http://pmooe.at/sitex/index.php/page.85/(English)

  9. From past to present 1965: • 1 Psychiatric Hospital for Upper Austria with: • 1800 beds for long-termpatients • No beds for acutetreatment since 2002: • No long-termpatients in upperaustriahospitals

  10. From past to present 2012 (pro mente upperaustria) • Housing facilities • 355 places in different housingfacilities • 657 clients in mobile care • Skill-oriented activity • 526 places at over 110 locations • about 1300 clients

  11. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  12. What should be changed by the UN-convention? Realise and implement the social model of handicaps Approach based on human rights Right of diversity and right of differency From integration to inclusion No new rights, but adaption of existing human rights, to the needs of persons with disabilities

  13. … a system …

  14. Exclusion

  15. Separation

  16. Integration

  17. Inclusion

  18. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  19. „OÖ Chancengleichheitsgesetz“ • OÖ Chancengleichheitsgesetz • equal opportunity law … really egual? • Targets of this law?! • Prevention • equal opportunities among people with dissabilities • reintegration to society • Problems: • financing logic <> person oriented

  20. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  21. What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • user representation in the organisation • pm OÖ is leading among others organisations, with her user representation group STRADA. • clients' satisfaction survey • developed by users (without the help of staff!) • Projects and philisophy pm OÖ • „What I really, really want!“ based on Frithjof Bergmann • It is not about what I (users) whish, it is about what I (users) really, really want!

  22. What I really, really want! • Projekt ELAP, 2009 • „Erarbeitung von Lebens- und Arbeitsperspektiven“ • developing perspectives of living and working

  23. Start and destination of ELAP TS Grubmühle Schönau Farm TS Variabel Bad Zell Contract work and Creative Werkstätte

  24. ELAP • „What I really, really want!“ • Various development and work groups • Mix of indoor and outdoor events • Supporting research modules • Interviews, experiential Education, implementation perspectives • Overview • 40 Users participating • 25 Interviewresults

  25. ELAP – implementation perspectives • „Roland“ • Wants to work with machines, especially an excavator (bagger). • He never had a driving license. • Solution • He can use the tractor in the Skill-oriented activity. • „Dietmar“ • Wants to be „normal“ again. • Wants to be „usefull“. • Solution • Whenstudyfinished he was alreadyworking for morethen 5 months in a supermarket.

  26. ELAP – what we learned! • Do not set the goals too high! • Methods: • small groups • work process-oriented • and interactive • Not everybody can be part of everything. • Accompanying reflection instruments to avoid disappointments • Work with the system, not only with the users!

  27. TS Enns* • Problems: • long-term sick leave • no developement possible • Project since April 2010 • From: What I really, reallywant! • To: What WE really, reallywant! *TS-Enns: skill-oriented activity in the city of Enns

  28. TS Enns – feel comfortable?

  29. TS Enns - enjoy the work?

  30. TS Enns • Results • no more long term sick leave … but this was not the goal! • The target was: Users participate and decide the developing and redesign of the skill-oriented activity in Enns. • … and the project still continous! • next project meeting: June 19, 2012.

  31. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  32. How can we ensure the access-rights? • counseling of clients • counseling of employes • legal advice of clients • Knowledge is power!

  33. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  34. How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • Organisational development • Bring assistance and support to the people • Extensive local support • Adaption of organisation‘s structure

  35. How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • Adaption of organisation‘s structure • Bring activities together: • Housing, Skill-Oriented Activity, Counselling, …

  36. How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • Education of staff • Working in social environment not in facilities • More individual responsibility • Good reflexion instruments • Safety and determined frame work conditions

  37. Table of Contents • pro mente upperaustria • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities • Legal situation in Upper Austria • What are the needs of persons with disabilities? • How can we ensure the access-rights? • How can we create and develop organizations to ensure the rights? • How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life?

  38. How can we make sure that human rights are seen and felt in the daily life? Revision of guidelines and concepts Objectives and strategy Lobbying New supporting models Assistance and support in the social environment Networking Empowerment of users (What I/We really want) Poverty reduction

  39. pro mente Upper Austria Empowerment for users Information/Training Support of self-lobbying Participation in planning and development Take-over of responsibility Public relations work (politicians, public officers,…) Discussions, publications, actions…..

  40. Human rights of the access to quality community-based services! It is not the question „if“ it´s the question „how“!

  41. Thank youThe human rights aspects of the access to quality community-based services – An example of pro mente Upper Austria Erwin Kargl MHE conference: June 2012

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