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Description
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.
Summary of project results
We aim to act, speak and solve not for people with disabilities, but together with them. All 3 organisations have been working in this field for more than 10 years and see the lack of self-awareness, expression of needs and self-representation skills of people with disabilities and the lack of competence of staff/volunteers to strengthen the self-representation skills of people with disabilities.
We have addressed this problem by developing a new service by adapting the methodological tools for inclusion used by the international Ark Association, by raising staff competences through training in social business and social impact measurement, by summarising good practices and by developing a methodological tool and sharing it with other social partners. During specialised self-representation sessions, we increased the self-knowledge and self-representation skills of people with disabilities by using different methodological tools. We strengthened and developed the service of individual leisure activities oriented to needs and social workshops as a guarantee of a full life for people with intellectual disabilities. We carried out meetings with various communities, educational events for the public and information campaigns with social advertising on the streets of Vilnius and Kaunas and short films on social media.
The project involved 3 organisations and 50 adults with intellectual disabilities. 34 staff and 35 volunteers provided services and improved their competences.
We empowered a vulnerable group - adults with intellectual disabilities, strengthening their inclusion, increasing their participation in decision-making, cultural and sporting opportunities.
We raised civil society''s awareness of disability and created a more positive attitude towards its members.
1. The vulnerable target group - 50 adults with intellectual disabilities - are empowered to represent themselves in everyday life and in the community and to spend quality leisure time according to their needs.
2. Increased public awareness of persons with disabilities, their abilities, their daily life; through 2 press releases, social media, thematic and educational meetings in the communities.
3. The "Self-representation" methodology was developed on the basis of good practice and disseminated publicly. 20 organisations have become fully familiar with the methodology and thus improved the quality of their work.
4. Three organisations promoted the inclusion of vulnerable groups, increased the competences of staff and volunteers, developed and improved 4 new services for people with intellectual disabilities and measured social impact.