On 25-26 June 2018, the COFACE Disability platform (for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families) met in Sitges, Spain. We hosted the meeting as members of COFACE Families Europe, a pluralistic network of civil society associations representing the interests of all families.<\/p>\n
On the first day, the participants followed a Seminar on support needs in Catalonia with presentations from Rosa Cadenas (Dincat<\/a>), Gl\u00f2ria Canals (Fundaci\u00f3 Aura<\/a>) and Montserrat Falgera (Red\u00f3s Foundation<\/a>). We hope our colleagues will take some of the key messages from Catalonia back to Brussels in EU-level discussions, namely the need to support autonomy and inclusion, as well as fair and adequate retirement for persons with disabilities, and community-based support. After the introduction on the Catalan examples, there was an introduction of different projects<\/a> from the IRD followed by a questions and answers session. The seminar was closed by\u00a0M\u00f2nica Ribas,\u00a0Subdirectora general d\u2019Atenci\u00f3 i Promoci\u00f3 de l\u2019autonomia Personal,\u00a0Secretaria d\u2019Afers Socials i Fam\u00edlies, Generalitat de Catalunya.<\/p>\n After the seminar, the group visited the Ave Maria Foundation<\/a> to see the several projects focused on enhancing independent living of persons with disabilities in the community. Some examples, the Never Alone<\/a> project (telecare platform for people living at home), the innovative residential care facility of the Ave Maria Foundation for persons with disabilities and the Laundry ID<\/a> project (2017 EESC Civil Society Prize winner project for labour market inclusion of persons with disabilities).<\/p>\n On the second day, the participants followed a session on EU developments such as the European Accessibility Act, the EEG\/DI, the next EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework, the EU Disability Strategy, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the proposed EU Work-Life Balance Directive. The participants also discussed the COFACE Study on Family Carers and COFACE\u2019s position on the family dimension of the long-term care. The COFACE members also exchanged on different training programmes for family carers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 25-26 June 2018, the COFACE Disability platform (for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families) met in Sitges, Spain. We hosted the meeting as members of COFACE Families Europe, a pluralistic network of civil society associations representing the interests of all families. On the first day, the participants followed a Seminar on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[144,146,145],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coface-families-europe","tag-disability","tag-family-carers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institutorobotica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}