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Paper: 16.04.25 Building Bridges Second Edition A paper exploring how to help people leave Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs).
Article: 07.01.25 Changing the Narrative is Key Not only does the system keep using confusing jargon to describe things it also keeps changing the jargon.
Article: 12.11.24 Celebrating the Success of Mi Casa The final conference of Plena inclusión's Mi Casa project marked an important step forward for human rights in Spain.
Paper: 10.09.24 Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Paper: 09.09.24 The Antecedents of An Ordinary Life 1946 - 1979 Deinstitutionalisation and the Ordinary Life movement emerged from a long history of reform.
Article: 10.06.24 All Hail Citizenship! The keys to citizenship can help improve services for people with disabilities in many ways.
Article: 09.05.24 Isn't Language Funny! We need to be careful about the language we choose to use in health and social care.
Article: 08.05.24 Creating a Life in Community Sofia Reyes leads the Mi Casa project in Spain which is a major development in deinstitutionalisation.
Paper: 24.04.24 Capacity Building for Valued Lives A report on the work of the National Alliance of Capacity-building Organisations (NACBO).
Article: 29.01.24 Support in the Community Let's concentrate on the right place to live and the right support.
Article: 22.01.24 So Toxic It's Toxique! Language is powerful and we must pay attention to how it's being used and when it's being misused.
Handbook: 10.01.24 How to Support Everyday Citizenship How to share the book Everyday Citizenship.
Article: 29.10.23 The Learning Disability Challenge Why would we trust you when you can’t even change the words you use to describe us.
Film: 26.08.23 The Value of Peer Support Peer support is one of the best ways to liberate the potential for citizens to change the world for the better.
Article: 12.07.23 Acronyms We all use acronyms but surely it makes more sense to lose them?
Article: 15.05.23 Transform Your Language! Is it really too much trouble just to say or write the words?
Article: 20.03.23 The Social Role of Friend Rules that restrict friendship between staff and people with disabilities are harmful and irrational.
Paper: 08.11.22 The Journey to Inclusion David Towell and Marcia Rivas Coello reflect on an important UNICEF initiative in Peru.
Article: 04.11.22 Building the Right Support... Why we are failing to provide the right support to people and what we can do to fix it.
Article: 20.09.22 Reimagining Disability in Family Life The ideal of citizenship helps a father reset his relationship with his daughter with disabilities.
Slide: 25.07.22 The Power of Freedom An overview of recent developments for self-directed support in New Zealand including important web technology.
Paper: 25.07.22 European Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation Good practice guide on the transition from Institutional to Community-based Care.
Article: 29.06.22 DWP on Trial Neil Carpenter describes the price people with learning difficulties pay for the DWP's welfare reforms.
Paper: 08.03.22 A New Way Home: Slovakian Edition Help for people in Slovakia and the Czech Republic to find new paths to living in their own home.
Story: 07.03.22 We Are Not Service Users People should not be defined by the services they use, services should not treat people as their property.
Article: 25.01.22 An Interview with Lou Townson Lou Townson talks about her experience as a leader and an advocate in the self-advocacy movement.
Webinar: 08.12.21 Centri Diurni Senza Mura La Cooperativa Kara Bobowski is an Italian social enterprise who here share innovations from their work as part of the…
Article: 02.12.21 Speaking Out Self-advocacy becomes much easier when we have the support of friends, family and peers.
Article: 24.11.21 An Interview with Katrina Kurowski Katrina Kurowski shares her experience as a leader and an advocate in the self-advocacy movement.
Article: 23.11.21 An Interview with Patrick Burke Jan Walmsley interviews Patrick Burke about his experience as a leader and an advocate in the self-advocacy movement.
Webinar: 08.11.21 Volunteering and Inclusion Les Papillons de Blancs Lille share how people with intellectual disabilities can be included in their communities…
Article: 13.10.21 Awed by the Human Spirit Recollections of the early days of deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of self-advocacy by one of its pioneers.
Article: 11.10.21 Beyond Deinstitutionalisation Looking at the causes of institutionalisation can help us identify common goals in our efforts for social justice.
Paper: 07.10.21 Building Bridges Bridging Support is a powerful means of accelerating people's ability to leave institutional services, like ATUs.
Paper: 18.09.21 The Quiet Progress of the New Eugenics Eugenics is now being legitimised through a mixture of policies including euthanasia, genetic testing and the…
Article: 15.09.21 Self-Advocacy History Before 1984 The People First movement leads the way in self-advocacy today, but there were also earlier developments which should…
Paper: 11.06.21 Avoiding Misconceptions When Designing Supports We need to readjust our thinking to overcome the prejudices against disabled people built into the modern world.
Webinar: 07.05.21 A New Way Home John Dalrymple and Frances Brown speak about their work with Radical Visions in Scotland and their guide A New Way Home.
Film: 06.04.21 Staying Strong, Getting Stronger Learning Disability England share their stories and the many creative things the learning disability community have…
Paper: 22.03.21 Starcross Hospital Important testimony from those who lived and worked in a long-stay institution for people with learning…
Paper: 09.03.21 A New Way Home New Edition A practical guide to leaving institutional care and returning to your community.
Paper: 04.03.21 Easy to Read Guide This learning material is produced within the Erasmus project Puzzle – developing easy to read formats for…
Article: 14.12.20 Mencap's New Strategy Mencap, who are one of the most important organisations in England working with people with learning difficulties,…
Film: 13.12.20 Romance, Relationships and Rights A performance by Canadian self-advocates confronting misconceptions about the right to romance and intimate…
Story: 10.12.20 A Self and Family Directed Adventure Fionn and Jonathan are a father and son team who are leading the way in showing what people with Down Syndrome can…
Story: 09.12.20 It's My Choice James has Down Syndrome and he uses an Individual Service Fund (ISF) to maintain control over his support and his life.
Webinar: 07.12.20 Does the Benefit System Work for You? Simon Duffy talks to members of Learning Disability England (LDE) about the idea of basic income as a way to reform the…
Training: 27.11.20 Citizen-Centered Leadership Training from the Citizen-Centred Leadership Resource and Learning Center at Cornell University.
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