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Supported Decision-Making Service for Persons with Disabilities | Service Model
The Human Rights Center for People with Disabilitis
PART 2
Supported
Decision-Making
Service Model
A. The Vision
Persons with disabilities eighteen and over will have the right and freedom to make their own
decisions, and for that purpose they will be entitled to receive supported decision-making services.
B. Guiding values and principles
1. Will and Preferences: All persons have wishes and preferences which can be detected.
All persons have the right to live their lives according to their wishes and preferences.
2. Liberty: All persons have the right to liberty and self-determination; the right to
organize their lives according to their wishes and preferences, with adequate support
if necessary.
3. Pluralism: There is more than one right way to live life and make life decisions.
Therefore, there are no objective or professional criteria according to which decisions
about a person's life should be made.
4. Adaptive Support: The right of persons with disabilities to independence, autonomy
and full legal capacity often depends on receiving adaptive support for the realization
of a person's needs and wishes. The need for support is not an indication of incapacity
but rather of society's obligation to provide accommodations which would facilitate
the realization of the will.
Will and
Preferences
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Liberty Pluralism Adaptive
Support