1. iImplementing the CRPD among service providers
Workshop Degener/Daniels/Oppenheimer
Articles 12 & 19 CRPD and their meaning for service providers Theresia Degener
iImplementing the CRPD among service providers

2. Article 12 Equal recognition before the law
Legal capacity: (1) the capacity to have rights & duties
(2) the capacity to excercise rights & duties
Art. 12: all persons with disabilities have legal capacity (1) & (2)
Human rights model of disability: legal capacity is a human right and cannot be denied or restricted on the basis of impairment
Right to have legal capacity recognized everywhere
Right to support for excercising legal capacity

3. Art. 19 Living independently and being included in the community
Right not to live in an institution or special residential area
Right to independent living services
Right to have access to all community services available to the general public

4. Meaning for service providers
Deinstitutionalization
Community – based services
Individualized (independent living) services
No more substitute decision making (abolish forced treatment and forced institutionalization (see art.14)
Develop and offer supported decision making services
Help to build accessible local communities