Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law launches an online training program for supported decision making

Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law in partnership with Bulgarian Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities organizes an online training program, which is unique by its nature. It will be dedicated to the supported decision making and the new conception for legal capacity of people with disabilities. The online training program consists of several parts, which will be available or broadcasted live through the special section of Information Portal of NGOs in Bulgaria – NGOBG.Live.

The first part of “Step by step to different possibilities for exercising rights by people who hardly handle alone – the experience of pilot projects in Bulgaria 2013” will describe the options for creating a supportive network of people who have intellectual disabilities. The audience will find out its purpose and how it helps people to exercise their rights. We will show you the team of experts who are the only ones in Bulgaria who “pilot” similar activity for people with intellectual disabilities and you will learn from them the method of work and organizing such a process. The speakers who will participate are: Annie Andonova and Rositsa Savova – active moderators of supported networks for people with intellectual disabilities, and Iliana Malinova and Nadia Shabani – program coordinators of “Article 12 – next step”. The videos of the training will be available after December 15, 2013 on NGOBG.Live.
  
During the second part of the training, the program speakers Nadia Shabani and Marieta Dimitrova, legal experts of Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law (BCNL), will talk about the legal aspects of the concept of supported decision-making, the “new” theory about legal capacity in the light of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with disabilities, the alternative of the legal institute of guardianship. The training will be streaming in real time in January  2014 on NGOBG.Live.

These training programs are part of the Campaign for supported decision-making.

We BELIEVE that people with mental health problems and intellectual disabilities should have equal opportunities for independent living.

We CONCIDER that the appropriate support can make those people able to take decisions where and with whom to live, to manage their money, to decide how to spend their free time or in a few words – that they can personally exercise their rights.

To make this happen in a way, which ensures protection from abuses and manipulations, we PROPOSE legislative changes in order to initiate the conception of supported decision-making.

AND YOU?
You can become part of the campaign, by supporting it here.