Lhe French model of support for people with disabilities (medico-social establishments and services) is undergoing transformation. This process must involve people closely in order to be able to meet their needs and aspirations as closely as possible. Some question this transformation in the light of France’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This agreement places particular emphasis, in terms of autonomy and inclusion in society, on the unconditional freedoms of all persons with disabilities: freedom to choose where to live, freedom to choose its mode of accompaniment, … This convention is often opposed, in France, to a model judged as a brake on the emancipation of the person.
There is unquestionably progress to be made to smoothen the life paths of people with disabilities. Should we therefore overwhelm this model with all the evils? Cerebral Paralysis France refuses to fall into a sometimes caricatural approach to the debate. Life in an ordinary environment should be privileged. That’s a fact. Who could oppose it?
A plurality of solutions for the most complex disabilities
This must, however, lead us to make a lucid observation of the daily problems experienced by people with disabilities at home: accessibility in all its components, plurality and availability of liberal services, public policies of autonomy and incomplete compensation, etc Finally, what about the difficulties of the so-called “domiciliary” sector!
There is also life in an adapted environment which represents a plurality of solutions for the most complex disabilities. Cerebral Paralysis France observes that a sometimes demagogic wind sets in and progresses. We stigmatize life in an establishment, we generalize without any form of nuance.
These establishments were created in the 1960s, at the initiative of families in particular, when there was no alternative: people lived all their lives in their parents’ home, in the hospital, or even in the hospital. psychiatric. Some were even abandoned. No one disputes that these medico-social establishments must evolve.
Innovation spaces
They always have, they will continue to do so. Faithful to its aim of inclusion, the Cerebral Palsy France network engages its establishments and services in dynamics of change to be both more open, more efficient and better respond to the evolution of people’s expectations. Some disabilities require the support of multidisciplinary teams that it is often difficult to mobilize at home.
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