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We all want to be part of a community.
Also people with intellectual disabilities.
They also want to:
- live independently
- give something back to the community.
The UN CRPD says
that everyone should have the right
to live where they want
and how they want.
But this doesn’t always happen
for people with intellectual disabilities.
For this reason, Inclusion Europe
talks about community living.
Inclusion Europe has been working
on the topic of community living
for many years.
Since then, many things have changed.
Some countries have changed their laws
and moved people with intellectual disabilities
out of institutions.
Inclusion Europe wrote a text called “Included in society”.
In this text we talk about:
- Why institutions are bad
for people with intellectual disabilities - how we can organise
good community-based care.
We have also talked about community living
in many other projects.
And we are also part of a European group
working to help moving people from institutions
to the community.
