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SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTIONS IN SERBIA:
SUPPORT TO THE REFORM-ORIENTED STRATEGY

The project involves 15 fact-finding missions to the social care institutions in Serbia accommodating individuals with long-term care needs: adults and children with various forms of mental disabilities, children without parental care and/or with social behavior disorders, disabled persons and old people/geriatric patients. These investigating missions are planned as civil sector advocacy both against institutional bias and noncompliance with internationally recognized standards for institutionalization. This 18-month project, realized in three phases, produces well-argued, comparative reports with detailed guidelines for domestic authorities and relevant institutions, which are also brought before the public eye at three press conferences.

With the assistance of the network of civil sector organizations concerned with specific vulnerable groups of population and in tandem with the Mental Disability Rights International /MDRI/ whenever appropriate, the Helsinki Committee thus undertakes both domestic and international advocacy for policy change in the sector of social care institutions, which would, among other things, enable the provision of more home and community-based services for people with mental and physical disabilities, children/young adults without parental care and/or with behavior disorders, and the old.

The program is realized with the assistance of the Open Society Institute and the Royal Netherlands Embassy under the MATRA/KAP program.

PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS (part 4)

Social care institutions catering for children and adults with mental disabilities and persons with mental disorders

Belgrade, September 2009

The third report stemming from the project "Social Care Institutions in Serbia: Support to a Reform-Oriented Strategy" - the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has realized with the assistance of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Belgrade - focuses social care institutions in Serbia catering for children and adults with mental disabilities and persons with mental disorders. Developed countries...   Acrobat PDF (831kb) >>>

PEOPLE ON THE MARGINS (part 3)

Social care institutions catering for children and youth without parental care, and for children and youth with social behavior disorders

Belgrade, September 2009

The report on the situation of social care institutions catering for children and youth without parental care and those with social behavior disorders occupies, for many reasons, a central place of the Helsinki Committee's project "Social Care Institutions in Serbia: Support to a Reform-Oriented Strategy" that is realized with the assistance of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade. The...   Acrobat PDF (1.60mb) >>>

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