This project is all about working with people with intellectual disabilities and their families to push for inclusive care and support systems.

We want to learn from people with intellectual disabilities and their families in different countries about the challenges that they face giving and receiving care and support, and to collect stories about good examples of care and support systems that work in inclusive ways.

This knowledge will be used to push for big changes to care and support systems, to make sure that they fully include people with intellectual disabilities.

This project is funded by the SAGE fund.

Goals

The Transformative Care and Support project’s goals are to:

  1. Develop policy recommendations for inclusive care and support systems
  2. Highlight examples of care and support models that are working well
  3. Share project learning with OPDs, organisations working on care and support and policy makers, and give them the tools to drive change

Activities

  1. Development of case studies on inclusive care models from around the world
  2. Consultations about care and support with self-advocates and families
  3. Developing key policy recommendations on care and support with members
  4. Writing a global report on care and support 
  5. Hosting a workshop for members on building advocacy strategies for care and support advocacy