Housing and Independent Living Mike Wright, Development Director KeyRing Living Support Networks (UK) 21 st April 2012.

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Housing and Independent Living Mike Wright, Development Director KeyRing Living Support Networks (UK) 21 st April 2012

Introduction  KeyRing  Article 19 and its application  Where do we start?  Where do we want to end up?  What’s stopping us?  Is there hope?!

Introduction

Article 19 of UN Disability Rights Convention State Parties to this Convention recognise the equal right of persons with disabilities to live in the community with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and participation in the Community

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person I n t e r

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

Asset or Deficit based thinking Identify strengths Facilitate their use Pride, confidence, excitement People build up networks Workers become third parties Less dependence on services Citizens not clients Finances fluid Services for more people

Asset or Deficit based thinking Highlight weakness Compensate for them Anxiety, lethargy, pessimism People belong to services Workers at centre of lives Increased dependence on services Client not citizen Finances locked up Services for few people

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

Anatole France : “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

Eleanor Roosevelt : “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”

George W Bush : “We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop”

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

UK Government’s Office for Disability Issues definition of independent living: Independent living is about disabled people having the same level of choice, control and freedom in their daily lives as any other person

Who? Black?White?

Who? Male?Female?

Who? Christian?Muslim?

Who? ‘Able bodied’?‘Disabled’?

Who? Young?Old?

Who? Unknown?Famous?

Who? Cleared?Convicted?

Who? Entitled?Titled?

Who?

The lowest common denominator? The highest standard?

Is there hope?

Thank you Mike Wright, Development Director KeyRing Living Support Networks