{"id":3263,"date":"2019-03-01T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peoplefirst.hu\/news\/innovative-co-operations-for-independent-living-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:57:44","slug":"innovative-co-operations-for-independent-living-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/news\/innovative-co-operations-for-independent-living-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative co-operations for Independent Living in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our goal to set up the system of Personal Assistance in Hungary has come to a very<br \/>\nimportant stage. On February 14th we organised a panel discussion for activists and<br \/>\nprofessionals to come together and contribute to form our strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Living of persons with disabilities is what we invision in the long term<br \/>\nfuture. Independent Living means that we can decide on the issues that affect our lives<br \/>\nas disabled people and that we have access to all the supportive services that enable us<br \/>\nto do so. Independent living extends to every aspect of life, but these areas are built on<br \/>\neach other. In our experience, self-determination cannot be achieved in all areas of life<br \/>\n(such as work or leisure), if community-based living and Personal Assistance services<br \/>\nare not properly organized.<\/p>\n<p>In our last \u201cLet\u2019s talk about Personal Assistance\u201d event we invited disabled persons,<br \/>\nallies and potential personal assistants to talk about their experiences. Since then, we<br \/>\ncarried out lobby work and informed several different policy makers and advocacy<br \/>\ngroups about our goals.<\/p>\n<p>This time, we wanted to bring together representatives from different areas<br \/>\nand organized a panel discussion. Our opinion is, that not all professionals<br \/>\nneed to have knowledge about disability issues to work together, because<br \/>\neveryone can add their own expertise to achieve the common goal. We<br \/>\ninvited disabled activists, experts from NGO\u2019s and the academic field.<\/p>\n<p>Our main questions were: What are our cooperation possibilities? How can<br \/>\nthe participants contribute to the process? The outcome of the discussion is<br \/>\nthat we could strengthen the relationship between the activists of the past<br \/>\nand the present. All participants agreed to take part in further cooperation<br \/>\nand activities because we all strongly believe in the feasibility of this project.<\/p>\n<p>Next step of our strategy is to support the empowerment process of disabled<br \/>\npersons and to organize our community. We want to create social media<br \/>\ncampaigns with powerful and positive messages regarding the lives of<br \/>\ndisabled persons who already live independently in their communities. We<br \/>\nalso want to conduct a basic research to examine international theories and<br \/>\npractices and to analyse the models that can be adapted to the Hungarian<br \/>\ncontext.<\/p>\n<p>Due to our international networking process, this event was sponsored by the US Professional Fellow program.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erzs\u00e9bet F\u00f6ldesi (president, MBE, Budapest Association of Persons with Physical Disabilities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mircea Cernov (Mozaik Hub)<\/li>\n<li>J\u00e1nos Czafrang\u00f3 (Independent CSR consultant)\u25cf Anik\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor (researcher, lecturer, ELTE University)<\/li>\n<li>Istv\u00e1n Sziklai (researcher, FSZK, Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Non-profit Ltd.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roger Schmidtchen (Verein zur sozialen und beruflichen Integration, LIGA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selbstvertretung von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Th\u00fcringen e.V.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Csilla Cserti-Szauer (researcher, lecturer, ELTE University)<\/li>\n<li>Z\u00f3ra Moln\u00e1r (activist, Professional Fellow alumni, \u00d6n\u00e1ll\u00f3an lakni, k\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gben<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e9lni, Living independently in the Community)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Cs\u00e1ng\u00f3 (participatory instructor, ELTE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cs\u00e1ng\u00f3, Anik\u00f3 S\u00e1ndor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our goal to set up the system of Personal Assistance in Hungary has come to a very important stage. The Independent Living of persons with disabilities is what we invision in the long term<br \/>\nfuture. Independent Living means that we can decide on the issues that affect our lives as disabled people and that we have access to all the supportive services that enable us to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3263\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}