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Jamie Bolling Rahel Abebaw Sooz Romero Julius Ntobuah Ola Linder

Welcome w ho ever you are! Freedom Drive 2019 Bryssels. Jamie Bolling Rahel Abebaw Sooz Romero Julius Ntobuah Ola Linder. For an accessible , reciprocal integration and better reception of mirgrants with non-normative abilities. What is DRW? Disabled Refugees Welcome?.

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Jamie Bolling Rahel Abebaw Sooz Romero Julius Ntobuah Ola Linder

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  1. Welcome who ever you are! Freedom Drive 2019 Bryssels Jamie Bolling Rahel Abebaw Sooz Romero Julius Ntobuah Ola Linder • For an accessible, reciprocal integration and better reception ofmirgrantswith non-normative abilities

  2. What is DRW? Disabled Refugees Welcome? AllmännaArvsfonden 3 year project 2017 – 2020 (August) 9 project workers 7 nationalities 6 languages Jamie

  3. How did DRW start ? • Julius Ntobuah and Adolf Ratzka Julius

  4. How did DRW succeed? • Staff with experience of migration and of norm breaking funktionality • Staff and volunteers with language competence • Network: Word of Mouth • Flyers and brochures • Monitoring events within field of migration Rahel

  5. DRW Calls - Close the gap! Migration and disability = True! • Leave no one behind! Don’t leave us behind! Better health – better integration! • A reciprocal integration promotes good health! • Health on equal conditions! • No growth without health! • Don’t forget – Health is Wealth! Sooz

  6. How does DRW work? Rahel och Aster Fieldworker • Peer Counseling • Interviews Participant follow-up Referring Participant support Jamie

  7. Bild eller text här DRW Activities Round tables Theme days Open house Drop in Focus groups Actions Study visits Counselling Ola

  8. Network development DHR MFD • HRF AF • SRF Länsstyrelse • Hjärnkoll – Ambassadör NORRort/Söder Försäkringskassa • LaSSe SKL • Bosse Volontärbyrå • Kvotprojktet • Röda Korset Caritas • IM Svenska Kyrka Jesuit Refugees Jamie

  9. Events Rinkeby Mässa Jarvaveckan Almedalen MR dagar Konferenser TIA – nätverk via Länsstyrelsen i Stockhlm för tidiga insatser för aslysökande Cooperation: ESF – Hälsofrämjande Etablering Läns Styrelse Stockholm - boende Konferens med Bosse - Stockholmsstads Funktionshinderombudsman och funktionshinder plan Jamie

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  11. Methods Genuine participation – employees, volunteers, : requirement with own experience of migration and functional diversity, Mobilising methods – fieldwork, study visits, intro DRW, Quantative methods – theme days, round tables, open house, drop-in, Qualitative methods – interviews, peer support, volunteers Sooz

  12. Results Met over 90 persons from target group From Middle East and Africa Mostly men Between 25 and 50 years Issues: living arrangements, health care, economy, family reunification, establishment period Rahel

  13. Disabled Refugees Welcome’sdemands • Increased participation for newcomers with non-normative abilities on issues connected to health, employment, education, family, migration policy/politics of establishment, accommodation and transport. • Commitment from the Swedish Migration Agency and the municipalities to create a common framework following the UNHCR’s Resettlement Assessment Tool: Refugees with Disabilities. • Access to adapted Swedish language education and vocational programmes of high quality for disabled newcomers. • Coherent cooperation from a rights-based disability perspective between the Swedish migration Agency, Swedish Public Employment Service, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, social services, municipalities and health and medical services.  • A rights-based disability perspective to all new regulations, policies and decisions that concern newcomers or migrants. • The establishment programme should have  health enhancing and rights-based disability perspective as its basis. • Extend the 2-year establishment period for newcomers with non-normative abilities. • Secure, accessible accommodations for newcomers with non-normative abilities. • Accessible and coherent information and directions concerning among other things family reunification, health examinations and rulings/notifications for newcomers with non-normative abilities throughout the asylum process.  • Accessible information and directions within support and service application systems for newcomers with non-normative abilities.  • Disabled asylum seekers shall have the right to support and service during the asylum process and possible repatriation. • Competence development about a rights-based disability perspective, personal treatment and cultural differences for more staff at the Swedish Migration Agency, everyone from case officers to coordinators for the Migration Agency’s accommodation centres.  • Guidelines on how coordinators for the Migration Agency’s accommodation centres shall prepare, procure, guarantee and communicate around accessible accommodation centres.  • Remove the maintenance requirement for newcomers with non-normative abilities, so it is possible for them to reunify with their families.

  14. www.disabledrefugeeswelcome.com info@independentliving.org

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