Friday, 20 April 2007


Registration of participants (12:00 - 14:00)


Opening Plenary Session (14:00 - 15:30)
Chair: John Evans (European Network of Independent Living)

  • Welcome (ECCL, Association for Promoting Inclusion, Association for Self-Advocacy)
  • Statement from the Croatian Government • Dragutin Keserica, Assistant Minister (Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Republic of Croatia)
  • Introduction (ECCL)
  • Ensuring Quality in the Delivery of Community-Based Services • Christian Zechert, Dachverband Gemeindepsychiatrie, Germany
  • Measuring Service Quality in the 21st century • Micheal S. Chapman, Chesapeake Management Consulting, USA
  • Moderated discussion
  • Report from Day One • Paul Trehin, Autism Europe


Plenary Session II (16:00 - 17:30)
Chair: Josée Van Remoortel (Mental Health Europe)

  • Community Living and User Involvement: the human rights context • Angela Garabagiu, Secretary to the Committee of Experts on Community Living (deinstitutitonalisation) of Children with Disabilities, Council of Europe
  • Community-Based Services for People with Disabilities in Europe: preliminary results of a European cost-comparison study • Julie Beadle-Brown, Tizard Centre, University of Kent, UK
  • Moderated discussion


Dinner (20:00)
Restaurant of the Four Points Sheraton - Panorama Hotel Zagreb

 

Saturday, 21 April 2007

 

Plenary Session III (9:30 - 10:15)
Chair: Judith Klein (Open Society Mental Health Initiative)

  • Challenges to the Involvement of Users in the Planning, Delivery and Evaluation of Services • Ingemar Färm, European Disability Forum, Sweden
  • Moderated discussion


Parallel Focus Groups I (10:20 - 11:50)

  • Policy frameworks for community living • Slavka Kukova, Open Society Mental Health Initiative, Bulgaria • Neil Coyle, Disability Rights Commission, UK
  • Self-advocacy as a precondition to inclusion • Association for Self-Advocacy, Croatia • Martine Dutoit, Advocacy France, France
  • Guardianship as a barrier to social inclusion • Gábor Gombos, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Hungary • Neda Miščević, Association for Promoting Inclusion, Croatia


Plenary Session IV (12:20 - 13:10)
Chair: Paul Trehin (Autism Europe)

  • Reports from the Focus Groups
  • Moderated discussion


Parallel Focus Groups II (14:30 - 16:00)

  • Community Living for All Initiatives in SEE • Ljubomir Pejaković, Ministry of Social Policy Serbia and Vladan Jovanović, Fund for Social Innovations, Serbia
  • Freedom and Independent Living through direct payments and personal assistance schemes • Ivanka Jovanovic, Centre for Independent Living, Serbia • Tina Coldham, Mind, UK
  • Involvement of users on the national and local level in the delivery and evaluation of services: Good practices • Klaus Candussi, Atempo, Austria (with participation of Agyby Waltraud, a service user) • Mandy Hooper, Commission for Social Care Inspection, UK


Closing Plenary Session (16:30 - 18:00)
Chair: Ingrid Körner (Inclusion Europe)

  • Reports from the Focus Groups
  • Moderated discussion
  • ECCL Statement on User Involvement (John Evans, European Coalition for Community Living)

 

Important Information

* Languages: Simultaneous interpretation in English and Croatian is provided in the Plenary Sessions only.

** Accessibility: Due to financial constraints, we will not be able to make this conference fully accessible to people with intellectual disabilities.

*** Changes: This draft programme is subject to changes. Please check this page regularly for updates.

 

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