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Supported Decision-Making Service for Persons with Disabilities | Service Model
The Human Rights Center for People with Disabilitis
A pilot participant expressed a clear desire to move to independent living accommodations in the
community. A short examination revealed that a supported housing service providing assistance
throughout the transition process into independent living accommodations was set to open in
Jerusalem. The support was mainly given to the participant in sourcing information, applying for
the service and assisting the participant to convince his family members to support the transition.
After the pilot ended, the participant moved to independent living accommodations under the
auspices of the supported housing services.
Example 3:
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area:
property – independent money management
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stage:
all stages
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level of support:
medium
A pilot participant expressed a desire to be more independent and less dependent on his family
members. Throughout the year it became apparent that he wanted to manage his disability benefits
and employment income by himself with the assistance of his family members – instead of having
the latter manage the funds for him. For this purpose, he had to have a better understanding his
earnings and expenses and reach an understanding with his parents which would balance his
will for independence and their desire to prevent him from making mistakes. As the process
progressed, an application to revoke the family's guardianship over his property had to be filed
with the court and the welfare worker had to be convinced to give a supporting recommendation.
The support was provided along all stages on a medium level, as it was sufficient to break down
the goal into stages – which the participant executed independently with the supporter's specific
intervention in the more complex junctures.
Example 4:
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area:
all areas (property, living conditions, health)
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stage:
will
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level of support:
intensive
A pilot participant requested her supporter to help her cope with many difficulties in her life:
debt accumulated by her guardian with the municipality, difficulties with her treating physician,
her desire to revoke the guardianship, etc. Throughout the entire year, the support process
remained in the first stage of exploring participant's will: whenever she expressed a wish and its
implementation process was initiated – the participant chose to re-open the discussion about this
wish and the ways to implement it. The entire process required intensive support in all of its initial
stages of support (identifying the wishes, sourcing information, understanding the options) due to
participant's difficulties.
Example 5:
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area:
examination of finances
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stage:
all stages
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level of support:
high
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