Co jsou komunitní služby a co mají dělat Mým úkolem na workshopu MPSV a JDI bylo říct, jak se pozná dobrá komunitní služba (podle příkladů ze zahraničí a podle Inclusion Europe).Odpověděl jsem jako odpovídám vždycky – komunitní služba je dobrá tehdy, když člověku pomáhá: Tohle nejsou jen tak nějaká přání nebo fráze.Je to popis toho […]
Category: Speeches and lectures
Lack of action
Lack of data (as important as it is) isn’t the main problem. Lack of action is. I was invited to speak at European Parliament’s Employment Committee workshop on independent living (and deinstitutionalisation) in December 2025. Didn’t say anything new I’m afraid. ❗️800,000+ people with intellectual disabilities in institutions❗️Many adults living with their families and relying […]
Being included is also a sense of belonging and having someone you can trust
Contribution at disability conference of Denmark presidency of the Council of the EU, Copenhagen, October 2025. “Being included is also a sense of belonging and having someone you can trust,” I said during my panel contribution. It was very nice to be quoted on this by minister Sophie Hæstorp Andersen in her closing speech. LinkedIn […]
How do you build inclusion?
Lecture at West University of Timisoara for social work and psychology students, October 2025. How do you build inclusion? Through support to a person to have a place to live, things to do and people to see.In other words through social roles and relationships. But most people in institutions don’t have anything resembling a ‘normal’ […]
DI is not a rocket science
Global Disability Summite, Berlin, April 2025 As organisations of people with intellectual disabilities, and other advocates, we spend a lot of time demanding deinstitutionalisation.We also need to give time to working with those who make it happen. It’s about demonstrating to those responsible that deinstitutionalisation is doable.It has been done.It is being done.It can and […]
It seems that deinstitutionalisation has become an exercise in wordsmithing
I was invited to speak during a workshop of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and social affairs. The workshop was about Deinstitutionalisation and independent living of persons with disabilities. The workshop, chaired by Li Andersson MEP, took place on 2 December 2024 in Brussels. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of […]