What About Me? Including the Most Excluded
Improving the Quality of Life of People with Profound Disabilities
Time: 2-5 June 2010
Conference venue: Scandic Continental, Helsinki, Finland
The UN Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities promotes, protects and ensures the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities and promotes respect for their inherent dignity. People with disabilities are persons with rights, and they are entitled to claim these rights and make decisions for themselves.
Full and effective participation and inclusion in society is recognized in the UN Convention. We are committed to the values of self-determination, empowerment, active inclusion, equal opportunities, lifelong learning and freedom of choice. The UN Convention and all these values should also be a reality for persons with high support needs and this creates challenges for people concerned, families, service providers and local communities.
The conference speakers from across Europe and beyond will explore ways of promoting these principles and values and making the UN Convention a reality for persons with high support needs.
The conference will approach this through three main themes:
- Communication and interaction
- Active support
- Citizenship and inclusion
Conference languages: English-French-Finnish
Who should attend?
- Professionals, service providers
- People with disabilities and their families
- Researchers, educators
- Politicians
Organizers: EASPD, NVC, Service Foundation for Persons with Intellectual Disability, FAIDD, The Finnish Network for Developing Housing and Support for People with Intellectual Disability
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