Pools and Networks of Trainers

Daphne –project: 1997-182

Project details

Prevention of sexual abuse and violence against disabled women and girls

Preventing sexual violence against disabled women and children.

Training disabled women to become trainers.

Organisation details

Mobility International (MI)

Project Coordinator Susan O’Flaherty

18 Bd Baudouin

B-1000 Brussels

tel: +32 2 201 57 11

fax: +32 2 201 57 63,

e-mail:

website

Materials available

· Executive Summary of training manual (Dutch, English, French, Greek, Spanish, Swedish)

· Training Manual (English, German)

Annex

Children

Young people

Women

Prevention of violence

Protection from

Sexual violence

Violence in schools

Violence in institutions

Female genital mutilation

POOLS AND NETWORKS OF TRAINERS

Partners for Change
The Integration of Young Disabled People in Society is Everyone's Responsibility

by Josyane Pierre
Source:

Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Treaty, and within the powers conferred by it upon the Community, the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament, may take appropriate action to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic, origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam

Since it was set up in 1982, Mobility International, a European non-governmental organisation of disabled people, has upheld the right of people with disability to be independent. This campaign concerns all aspects of daily life: studying, working, travelling, broadening one's horizons, obtaining information, having a family life, finding accommodation and participating as a full member of society.

It is still difficult for disabled persons to achieve independence because of the many financial, physical and psychological barriers that often result from ignorance of their real needs and potential.

• Francesca, a young active member of Mobility International, was invited to address the Economic and Social Committee in Brussels on the initiatives taken by young people in the field of civil society. The lack of access to the conference room facilities meant that she could not reach the speakers' podium but had to address the audience from the back of the room.
• François suffers from cerebral palsy, a disability that leads to unco-ordinated movements and difficulties in speaking clearly. People who do not take the time to get to know him because his disability embarrasses them will never find out that he is a highly esteemed journalist.

In setting up its Youth Committee in 1997, Mobility International decided to take a number of steps to promote the inclusion of disabled people, in particular young people, in youth activities in general.

An initiative to provide training

Since it was founded, Mobility International has, thanks to the support provided by the European Youth Foundation and the European Commission, enabled many young disabled people to take part in exchanges, training courses and seminars held in various parts of Europe. These activities have made a major contribution to the participants' lives. They have become aware of their abilities and of their responsibility as citizens to combat discrimination against people with disabilities.

A pool of disabled trainers was therefore set up to organise training on disability issues. A computerised database, which is accessible on the Internet, enables organisations to call on young experts in the various fields relating to disability. It is designed for all public or private organisations which wish to hold training courses or seminars on various disability issues (legislation, accessibility, violence against disabled persons, disability and femininity, etc).

It has also led to the establishment of a service which provides training in and advice on disability issues and offers the assistance of disabled persons in training able-bodied professionals in the public or private sector. It offers training courses on the following subjects: obstacles to participation - attitudes, information, architecture; interaction with disabled persons: language and behaviour; working as partners: ensuring that disabled persons can find jobs; disability as a civil rights issue; etc.

Mobility International's training and advisory service also meets specific requirements by designing individual training courses to match applicants' needs.

Providing information to increase public awareness

Information plays a prime role in heightening public awareness of the abilities of young disabled people and their activities. Our organisation has therefore decided to pay special attention to finding ways of informing the public at large.

For example, last year a special issue of our magazine "CONNECT" was devoted to young

disabled people and published personal accounts of their achievements and how they had overcome the wide range of obstacles they had encountered:

• Mirien decided to serve three months in the European Voluntary Service. She left Germany for Ireland, where she worked with young disabled Irish people. Her own blindness did not prevent her from drawing up a training programme to help Irish remedial trainers cater for blind students.
• Tatiana left Belarus for Northern Ireland on a 2-week training and project-development course. Since she returned home she has been preparing an exchange project involving young disabled Belarusians and young people from other countries.
• Lars, who comes from Finland, decided to travel to Strasbourg to take part in a seminar organised by the European Youth Foundation. He was naturally somewhat worried about the accessibility of the accommodation that he would be offered and about being integrated in a group of young people but he decided to run the risk and, according to his account of his stay, it was well worth it.

An information booklet presenting the Youth Committee and its activities has been published. It calls on other young disabled persons to join the Mobility International youth network and take an active part in its work.

A publication entitled "Getting involved in Europe" has been compiled on the basis a European survey of the reasons why young disabled persons do not take part in youth activities. It contains statistics and information on the different disabilities as well as advice on how to involve disabled people.

Finally, in partnership with the European Youth Forum, a handbook entitled "Youth Access" has been published. This handbook is really a practical guide for youth organisations which wish to include young disabled persons in their activities. It provides information and advises organisations on small practical details which will help them to make it possible for everyone to take part in events, exchanges and seminars:

• How to make sure that a meeting place is accessible to participants with limited mobility;
• A checklist to ensure that accommodation is accessible;
• Information on the different types of disability and related difficulties;
• Information on how to improve communication with deaf or blind participants.

We hope that our training activities will interest many organisations and that we will be able to set up partnerships for change with a view to achieving disabled persons' full participation in society and to ensuring that more and more able-bodied people feel at ease communicating with people with disabilities.

All of the publications mentioned in this article can be obtained (in English and French) from the Secretariat of

Mobility International:

18 Bd Baudouin

B-1000 Brussels

tel: +32 2 201 57 11

fax: +32 2 201 57 63,

e-mail:

website

Mobility international: Empowering people with disabilities around the world through international exchange and international development to achieve their human rights.

Europe, if it is to exist at all, must be for everyone.

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Organisations de personnes avec handicaps de BARCELONA:

Federació catalana pro persones amb disminució psíquica (APPS)

Travessia de Sant Antoni, 13 baixos

08012 - Barcelona

Tel 34 93 415 76 66

fax 34 93 415 26 95

e-mail:

Federació ECOM

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 562, pral

08011 - Barcelona

Tel 34 93 451 55 50

fax 34 93 451 69 04

e-mail:

Federació catalana d’associacions de familiars de malalts mentals (FECAFAMM)

Art, 7 i 9, baixos

08041 - Barcelona

Tel 34 93 435 17 12

fax 34 93 436 07 46

e-mail:

Federació de sords de Catalunya (FESOCA)

Pere Vergès, 1, 7a.

08020 - Barcelona

Tel 34 93 278 02 94

fax 34 93 278 01 74

e-mail:

Organització Nacional de Cecs a Catalunya (ONCE)

Calàbria, 60-66

08015 - Barcelona

Tel 34 93 325 92 00

fax 34 93 424 91 44

e-mail:

Organisations de personnes avec handicaps de BOULOGNE:

Associazione CDH, Centro Documentazione Handicap

Via Legnano 2

40132 Boulogne

tel. 051/641.50.05

fax 051/641.50.55

e-mail:

AIAS, Associazione Italiana Assistenza Spastici

Via Ferrara 32

40139 Boulogne

Tel. 051/45.47.27 - 46.62.44

Fax 051/466105

e mail:

Aniep, Associazione Nazionale per la Difesa e la Promozione dei Diritti Civili e Sociali degli Handicappati

Via dei Coltelli 7/d

Boulogne

tel. 051/237752

fax 051/232399

CEPS, Centro Emiliano Problemi Sociali per la Trisomia 21 (Associazione Genitori e Persone Down)

Via Colombarola 46

40128 Boulogne

tel. 051/322041

fax 051/325468

e-mail:

UILDM, Unione Italiana Lotta alla Distrofia Muscolare

Via San Leonardo 28

40125 Boulogne

tel. 051/266013

ANFFAS, Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Fanciulli Adulti Subnormali

Via Rasi 14

40127 Boulogne

tel. 051/244595

fax 051/249572

Organisations de personnes avec handicaps de LEEDS:

ASBAH House North

(Jon Burke is involved in this NGO)

64 Bagley Lane

Farsley

Leeds

LS28 5LY

Tel: +44 113 2556767

Fax: +44 113 2363747

Centre for Integrated Living

Armley Grange Drive

Leeds

LS12 3QH

Tel: +44 113 2143599

Fax: +44 113 2143595

e-mail:

Voluntary Action Leeds

Stringer House

34 Lupton Street

Leeds

LS10 2QW

Tel: +44 113 2700777

Fax: +44 113 2703095

e-mail:

Organisations de personnes avec handicaps de

LISBONNE:

Cooperativa nacional de apoio a deficientes (CNAD)

Praça Dr. Fernando Amado, lote 566, loja - E

Zona J de Chelas

1900 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 859 53 32

fax +351 1 859 53 32

Associaçào portuguesa de deficientes (APD)

Largo do Rato

1250 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 889 883

fax +351 1 387 10 95

Associaçào portuguesa de pais e amigos das crianças deficientes mentais (APPACDM)

Praça de Londres, 9, 4 esq

1000 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 846 26 66

fax +351 1 840 29 88

Cooperativa de educaçào e reabilitaçào de crianças inadaptadas (CERCI)

Rua Tomás Alcaide, lote 62-A

1900 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 859 21 05

fax +351 1 837 15 62

Federaçào nacional de cooperativas de educaçào e reabilitaçào de crianças inadaptadas (FENACERCI)

Impasse E, nº 2ª

Quinta dos Inglesinhos

1600 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 711 25 81

fax +351 1 711 25 80

Associaçào elo social

Rua Alfredo Bensaúde

1800 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 851 85 89

fax +351 1 851 21 89

Liga portuguesa dos deficientes motores (LPDM)

Rua do Sítio ao casalinho da ajuda

1300 - Lisbonne

Tel +351 1 363 33 14

fax +351 1 364 86 39

Organisations européennes de personnes avec handicaps

EUROPEAN DISABILITY FORUM

BUROTEL – Office nº 121

Rue de la Presse, 4

-B-1000 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 227 1121/03/27

fax 32 2 227 1116

ACTION EUROPÉENE DES HANDICAPÉS

Generalsekretariat

Wurzerstrasse 4

53175 Bonn

tel 49 228820930

fax 49 2288209346

ALZHEIMER EUROPE

Route de Thionville 145

-L-2611 Luxembourg

tel 352 29 799 70

fax 352 29 79 72

ASSOCIATION INTERNACIONALE DE APHASIE

Av. M. Thiry 12 b-36

-B- 1200 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 7623638

fax 32 2 7625877

AUTISME EUROPE

Rue Evan Becelaere 26b bte 21

-B-1170 Bruxelles

te. 32 2 6757505

fax 32 2 6757270

CEREBRAL PALSY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

19 St. Mary’s Grove

-UK- W4 3LL London

DISABLED PEOPLE’S INTERNATIONAL

Belgrave Rd.

-UK- SWIV IRB Londres

tel 44 171 8340477

fax 44 171 8219539

E-mail

EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

7-11 Prescott Place

-UK- SW4 6BS Londres

tel 44 171 720 8055

fax 44 171 4988963

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF LITTLE PEOPLE

Comuneros, 2 bajos

-E- 30003 Murcie

tel 34 68213478

fax 34 68218492

EUROPEAN BLIND UNION

58 Av. Bosquet

-F-75007 Paris

tel 33 1 45512008

fax 32 2 5022046

EUROPEAN BRAIN INJURY SOCIETY

17 Rue de Londres

-B-1050 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 5023488

fax 32 2 5022046

EUROPEAN DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION

12 Goldington Av.

-UK- MK40 3BY Bedford

tel 44 1234 261897

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF MENTAL HEALTH

Bd. Clovis 7

-B-1000 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 2800468

fax 32 2 2801604

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE

PO Box 51

-SF- 00401 Helsinki

tel 358 958031

fax 35895803770

EUROPEAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION

22 Upper Woburn Place

-UK- WCIH ORA Londres

tel 44 171 3916704

fax 44 1713835754

EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF

Rue Franklistraat 110

-B-1000 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 7357218

fax 32 2 7355354

E-mail

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF SOCIETIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL HANDICAP-EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION

Galerie de la Toisson d’Or

29 Chaussée d’Ixelles

-B-1050 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 5022815

fax 32 2 5022846

E-mail

MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL

18 Boulevard Baudouin

-B-1000 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 2015608 - 5711

fax 32 2 2015763

E-mail

REHABILITATION INTERNATIONAL

Square Ambiorix 32 Boite 8

-B-1000 Bruxelles

tel 32 2 2304397

fax 32 2 2305390

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