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Updated: Nov 21, 2018
03.12.2012📷
Several Central and Eastern European countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia have invested tens of millions of euros in structural funds to build and/or renovate long-stay institutions for people with disabilities instead of supporting community-based alternatives, which safeguard human rights and are more cost-effective.
Article written by Judith Klein, Director of the Mental Health Initiative, Open Society Foundations http://euobserver.com/disability/118389
On the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care
21.11.2012
📷 European Expert Group has launched its Guidelines and Toolkit on the Transition from Institutional to Community Care - a great resource that provides guidance to member states on how to make the desperately needed reforms so that European citizens with disabilities can live as equal citizens!
