The final conference of the project Included in Society will be held in Brussels at the Bedford Hotel on 22 - 23 October 2004.
The project has analysed the conditions in and prevalence of large residential institutions for disabled people in Europe. At its final conference, the project partners want to discuss their findings and policy recommendations with international specialists on residential care and deinstitutionalisation issues, as well as with policy decision makers and other persons committed to disability issues.
The conference will mark the end of an ambitious project and at the same time the beginning of a European movement for more and better community-based residential services. People with disabilities have the right to live included in society and no longer want to be segregated in large residential institutions.
The project Included in Society is a collaboration between Inclusion Europe and Mental Health Europe, Autism Europe, the Open Society Institute, the Tizard Centre, the Centre for Policy Studies at the Central European University, the Association for Research and Training for Integration in Europe, the European Association of Service Providers, the European Network of Independent Living, the European Disability Forum Belgium. It is supported by the European Commission, DG Employment & Social Affairs, Unit Integration of People with Disabilities.
For further information on the conference, please visit www.community-living.info or contact Magali Coué, Project Coordinator, Inclusion Europe.
