The terminology and tips that follow may help as you use the Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform and apply its principles to your program activities. It is recommended that you become familiar with these terms before reading the rest of the content and revisit as needed. Please keep in mind that disability is an evolving concept. Language that is preferred in one context may be different in another. Ask local organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) for the preferred terms in your language and country text.

The Facilitator Manual for the Participation & Advocacy Learning Workshop and the accompanying slides were designed by disability and care reform practitioners and consultants for CTWWC with an aim is to build the capacity and confidence of those working in family strengthening and children’s care for work with children with disabilities and their families.

This facilitator’s guide accompanies the workshop slides by the same title, Understanding Disability. It is designed to be used by the person providing the workshop, often called “the facilitator” or “the trainer”. It is suggested that participants familiarize themselves with other resources in the Toolkit for Disability Inclusion in Care Reform as a foundation for this workshop. Each session section of this guide provides the facilitator with a script; however it should not be read verbatim but rather adjusted to the facilitator’s own style. Scripts will appear in italic font. The section description includes content for lecture with accompanying slides, suggested handouts, and exercises.

These slides were designed by disability and care reform practitioners and consultants for CTWWC with an aim to build the capacity and confidence of those working in family strengthening and children’s care for work with children with disabilities and their families. These slides are designed to be used by the person providing the workshop, often called “the facilitator” or “the trainer”.

The Facilitator Manual for the Participation & Advocacy Learning Workshop and the accompanying slides were designed by disability and care reform practitioners and consultants for CTWWC with an aim is to build the capacity and confidence of those working in family strengthening and children’s care for work with children with disabilities and their families.

The Facilitator Manual for Understanding Disability, a training in disability inclusion, and the accompanying slides were designed by disability and care reform practitioners and consultants for CTWWC with an aim is to build the capacity and confidence of those working in family strengthening and children’s care for work with children with disabilities and their families. 

Studiul a evaluat cunoștințele, atitudinile și practicile populației generale în ceea ce privește reintegrarea copiilor în familii, integrarea copiilor cu dizabilități în școala și comunitate și prevenirea separării copiilor care trăiesc în familii vulnerabile.

This is a Training Module for the Inshuti z’Umuryango volunteer community-based cadre to support the implementation of the Tubarerere Mu Muryango (TMM) Programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’) led by the National Child Development Agency (NCD).

Millions of persons with disabilities, children and older persons live in congregate settings. Whilst the motivation for providing such care may be well-intentioned, that is not always the case. Many of those settings are ‘institutional’, with residents denied autonomy and choice, provided with poor quality health and social care, and experiencing social isolation, neglect or abuse. This report summarises the evidence and experiences of persons living in congregate settings in general, and in terms of the impact of COVID-19, to understand the barriers to deinstitutionalisation, and to highlight the approaches that have sought to overcome those barriers.

This study addresses a gap in the literature regarding older youth with intellectual disabilities who are sexually victimized and pushed to engage in transactional sex while they are transitioning from child welfare systems involvement. It does so by examining risk and protective factors at the individual, micro, exo, and macro systems levels.