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Proposed solutions are to create new services adapting inclusion methods and means created by international l’Arche association. We will rise competencies of workers in training of social business, measuring social impact. Analyzing and systemizing the good practices the methodological mean will be created and shared with other social partners.
Self-awareness of disabled people, self-advocacy skills will be strengthened during specialized self-advocacy workshops. We will strengthen and broaden leisure activities according individual needs and the social service of the workshop as the grants of a full-fledged life.
Meetings in society, local communities and educational workshops as well as information campaigns with social advertisement in Vilnius and Kaunas streets and short movies will be held.
Results expected:
1. The vulnerable group, 50 adults with mental disability, is enabled to self-advocacy in daily life and in community and has a high-quality leisure according one’s needs.
2. Increased public awareness on people with disability, their abilities, daily life via press publications, social media, thematic meetings in communities and educational workshops.
3. “Self-advocacy” methodology is created on the basis of good praxis and distributed to the public. 5 other social organizations get into it and raise the quality of one work.
4. Three organizations encourage inclusion of vulnerable groups, raise competency of workers and volunteers, create and improve 4 new services for mentally disabled adults, measure their social impact.