MI CASA: A Life in Community
About the project
The objective of the project My home: A life in community is to promote the transition of institutionalized persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities to housing and activities in the community, especially those with extensive support needs.
This is the biggest challenge today in the care of people with intellectual disabilities, that they can live and receive the supports they need in their community and above all that they can have control over their own lives.
Mi casa: A life in community is a project of Plena Inclusion Spain executed in Aragon by Kairos, Cedes, Valentia y Atadi together with Full Inclusion Aragon.
We propose a new model for the management of long-term care through research, experimentation and innovation, with the support of the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 with the European Recovery Funds NextGenerationEU through the Recovery, Transformation and Resiliency Plan and of the Government of Aragon through the Department of Citizenship and Social Rights
Personalized support
Person-centered support models are those that pursue the empowerment of the IDDP and his or her family by favoring the development of skills, preventing institutionalization and placing the intervention scenario in the community for the establishment of connections and alliances in an inclusive community.
The quality of life model, the person and family centered approach, active support, positive behavioral support, alternative and augmentative communication systems are some significant examples.
Co-Participation
It is an attitude and an approach, not just a set of tools. It consists of generating the conditions for transition processes to be shared and co-led by the people who are the protagonists. It is about generating new life alternatives with the people we support and their families, not for the people and their families.
It implies, therefore, a redefinition of power in the processes and decision making, rebalancing it and giving it back to the people who will experience it first hand, moving from a passive role of receiving support to an active role of leadership in the transition process.
Community
It is about starting from the basic idea that a project like MI CASA is part of the neighborhood, that it is a way of making good support in good communities, communities in which all people fit.
Being present in the community and participating in it is the best way to generate new spaces for new beliefs and new relationships. The community approach of the MI CASA project makes possible the contact and direct experience of the people we support with the community and the neighbors with people with diverse abilities.
AIMED AT PEOPLE WITH HIGH SUPPORT NEEDS
The MI CASA Project is a deinstitutionalization project that, without being a project exclusively for people with high support needs, considers and includes them as a priority, avoiding welfare approaches in which people are grouped in the same types of services according to their support needs.
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Irrenounceable aspects of the project
Person-centered planning
The person makes decisions and defines the life he/she wants to have and how to achieve it.
Family-centered approach
Families take control by proposing and making decisions.
Positive behavioral support
Environments in which the person feels at ease and the conditions for communicating and relating in a positive way are present.
Active support
That favors participation in meaningful daily activities for the person.
Community development
Ensures supports in the community, keeps the person connected and ensures participation. Facilitates social support networks