Citizenship
Claiming Full Citizenship 2015 International Conference
In October of 2015, the UBC Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship hosted ‘Claiming Full Citizenship: an international conference on Self Determination, Personalization and Individualized Funding’. This document is the full syllabus from that event.
Developing a Safeguards Framework for People Supported by the NDIS
This discussion paper is the result of work led by the Safeguards and Quality Assurance Expert Group as part of the NDIS implementation groups. It draws together current thinking around capital building for all citizens and empowering safeguarding in the context of the emerging NDIS. The paper offers an outline of a Safeguarding Framework that enables citizens to be safe, well and included. The Framework is person centred and starts from the premise of building citizens capital through developmental investments. The approach is fundamentally steeped in the notion of citizens having an active role in safeguarding themselves.
Engaging and Empowering Communities: Our Shared Commitment and Call to Action
At a National Leaders seminar key public sector leaders and people with lived experience came together with a purpose which was to develop a ‘shared narrative’. This document describes the conditions that are needed to create strong and inclusive communities and offers a shared narrative, agreed by leaders including people who use services, professionals and carers.
Citizen Network – A Global Force for Change
Citizen Network is a global non-profit cooperative movement, formed to create a world where everyone matters – where everyone can be an equal citizen.
Citizenship for All: An accessible Guide
Citizenship is for everyone. Everyone can be a citizen. This guide describes the different things we must do to make citizenship real for all of us.
We are All Citizens: Facilitation Guide
The Keys to Citizenship were developed by Simon Duffy and Wendy Perez as a framework for people and their families to explore good support. It enables them to focus on areas of life that assist people to live as active and valued citizens. This facilitation guide is to guide you and the person you support to use the “We Are All Citizens Workbook.” This ‘We are all citizens’ guide should be followed when completing the workbook.
We are All Citizens: Workbook
The Keys to Citizenship were developed by Simon Duffy and Wendy Perez as a framework for people and their families to explore good support. It enables them to focus on areas of life that assist people to live as active and valued citizens. This workbook helps people to discuss what a good life looks like. The facilitation guide “We are All Citizens” should be followed when completing this workbook.
Communication as a Human Right: Citizenship, politics and the role of the speech language pathologist.
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate communication as a human right for Declan. This commentary paper is co-written by Declan, his sister who is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) with an advocacy role, his SLP, and academics. Declan discusses, in his own words, what makes communication hard, what helps communication, his experiences of speech-language pathology, and what he knows about human rights. He also discusses his passion for politics, his right to be an active citizen and participate in the political process.
What Does It Mean To Be A Citizen?
This video discusses five simple behaviours each of us can engage in every day to promote citizenship and belonging in our communities.
10 Ways to Build a Sense of Community
This short video sets out 10 simple things we can do to make our communities more welcoming for everyone. The goal is to encourage discussion about different ways that citizens from all walks of life can contribute to the well-being of community life.
Great Questions: Writings of Judith Snow
This is a collection of Judith’s writings about Circles of Support, Person-Centered Planning, Community Building and Self-Directed Supports long before they became common. Judith reflected deeply on her experience of how community grows strong, about power in society and about liberating the contributions of people who are typically pushed to the margins of society because they require accommodation and assistance in order to participate.
Connecting to Citizenship
This policy paper, Connecting to Citizenship, focuses specifically on the promotion of social networks among persons with disabilities. Relationships are a critical element of humanity, of identity, of belonging and of citizenship. This paper identifies a number of levers of influence available to promote the development of social networks and makes a number of social policy recommendations. While conceived for promoting social networks around persons with disabilities, implementation of most of the recommendations, will also benefit other groups that are frequently isolated and lonely.
Reaching Out
Relationships are the key to citizenship because full citizenship can only be achieved when we are recognized as contributors. It is through relationship that our contributions are given an opportunity for expression and recognition. Full citizenship for people who are marginalized has remained elusive. This report is for people involved or interested in social network facilitation: families, individuals at the centre of network building efforts, facilitators of networks, network members, service providers, and the community at large.
Our Town, Our Time
Citizen Advocacy is rooted in a set of philosophical principles. This framework guides citizen advocates to take principled action over time, and is an introduction to citizen advocacy in Savannah.
Choice and Control to Safely Live a Good Life of Belonging and Citizenship
This paper provides advice to the NDIA Board as to an approach to assist participants, their families and carers to develop strategies for their personal safety to enable them to live a full life safely. The rights based framework of the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework defines safeguards as actions designed to protect the rights of people to be safe from the risk of harm, abuse and neglect while maximising the choice and control they have over their lives. This definition was further clarified by the WA Disability Services Commission describing safeguards as supports and mechanisms that promote, enhance and protect an individual’s human rights, decision making, choice and control, safety and wellbeing, citizenship and quality of life.
Why Citizenship Matters
Dr Simon Duffy, Director of the Centre for Welfare Reform and co-founder of Citizen Network explains what citizenship really means and why citizenship is the key concept we need to embrace in order to change our world for the better.
Shapes of Things to Come
Shapes of Things to Come explores various themes, including moving from client-hood and consumerism to Citizenship – by undertaking a quest for communities of diversity and mutuality. The challenge to embrace diversity in our communities continues as we seek to support individuals with developmental disabilities in their journey to enact their rights as citizens of the world and neighbourhoods.
Citizen Network Poster
This poster illustrates the Core Values inspired by beliefs that can create a world where everyone matters, and to create the inclusive communities that we all need.
Supporting Decision Making Principles
The Principles that surround Supported Decision Making.
What Is Supported Decision Making?
This animation describes the process of practical assistance with decision making to people who need support.
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The Need for Roots: On Citizenship by Simon Duffy
Simon Duffy talks about his work on citizenship and its importance in creating a world where everyone matters. In his talk, Simon will explore: What citizenship really means, how we can create a world of equal citizens and why citizenship is the key to solving the challenges ahead.
SDM through Community Partnerships
As part of the Racial Equity and Supported Decision-Making Initiatives, Center for Public Representation worked alongside community partners to pilot trainings on SDM and other alternatives to guardianship for family members and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities within underrepresented and underserved populations in Massachusetts.
Where Do We Stand?
These images guide a renewal of intentions and relationships that encourage attachment to our sources of power, hope and joy in the work of building communities where all are welcome, each belongs, and every person and family has what is necessary to thrive as contributing citizens.
Our Lives, Our Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative
In the year that Ireland makes its first report to the United Nations under the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities(UNCRPD) there a number of issues relating to the full and active participation of disabled people in Irish society as equals. The media plays a crucial role in shaping discussions in relation to disability. “Our Lives, Our Voices” is the Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI) position paper, based on the facilitated discussions disabled activists held in December 2021 and their thoughts on how disabled people are currently represented, how disabled people would like to be represented and changes that are needed in the development and production of media in Ireland.
Ten Actions for an Asset Based Area
TLAP’s first paper on the asset-based area laid out a clear case for adopting an asset based approach to care and support. This expanded version is action oriented, with examples of where councils and other organisations are taking practical steps to shift in the direction of an asset-based area. The resource will interest people working in councils, those who run organisations that provide support, and people who draw on care and support, including organisations that represent their views and interests. It is intended as a practical glimpse of what is being made possible in some areas and organisations, rather than a detailed blue-print.
The Asset Based Area
A briefing paper by Shared Lives Plus CE Alex Fox which describes ten features of an ‘asset-based area’ necessary for developing strong communities and sustainable public services. It will be of interest to council, clinical commissioning group commissioners and wider public professionals. An asset-based public body does not have ‘customers’ (whose only responsibility is to pay taxes), rather it views everyone, including people with long term support needs, as citizens, with rights and responsibilities.