We all know how hard it is to get your message outside of your usual circles.

And how valuable it is, too.

I’m so impressed seeing this from our member in Slovenia: A cover story, 3-page interview in a supplement to one of the daily newspapers.

The interview is with Mateja de Reya, director of Zveza Sožitje, and board member of Inclusion Europe.

Mateja talks about how hard it is for people with intellectual disabilities to find good support.
How this impacts them, and their families.

Mateja also makes one very important, and hardly Slovenia-specific, point:

“There are quite a lot of people living at home who will be institutionalised within a year or two because the family is not receiving the support services to enable them to stay at home.
“At the same time, we are moving towards deinstitutionalisation and we want people to live outside institutions and be part of the community.
“That is to say, we are institutionalising people who are not in an institution so that we can then deinstitutionalise them over three years.”