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Supported Decision-Making Service for Persons with Disabilities | Service Model
The Human Rights Center for People with Disabilitis
Part A – Training course for decision-making supporters
The concept underlying the course conceived by the steering team was to equip participants with
maximum necessary basic knowledge in the shortest time possible, in order to match them to
service recipients and continue the learning process "in action". Another guiding principle was
to integrate into the training program instructors with disabilities to enable firsthand learning
from persons who have experience, rather than learning "about". The training course consisted
of eight sessions, with four 45-minute units each. Each session focused on a main content world
and concluded with a closing discussion facilitated by the course coordinators and targeted at
extracting applicable tools for designing the role of a decision-making supporter.
Course program
Meeting Date Hours Issues Meeting description
1. July 1,
2014
17:00-
20:15
Introduction
Vision presentation
Dilemmas
After the introduction session
Yotam presented the vision of the
pilot. In the second part, dilemmas
of independence and autonomy
were presented through movie
clips.
2. July 8,
2014
17:00-
20:15
Intellectual disability
– not only cognitive
deficiency and meeting
with a person with
intellectual-cognitive
disabilities
The meeting commenced with
a personal discussion with a
person with intellectual-cognitive
disabilities which was followed
by a lecture about life challenges
faced by persons with intellectual-
cognitive disabilities.
3. July 15,
2014
17:00-
20:15
Psychosocial disability
and meeting with a
person coping with the
disability
The meeting commenced with
a personal discussion with a
person coping with a psychosocial
disability which was followed
by a lecture about life challenges
faced by persons coping with
psychosocial disabilities and the
rehabilitation concept from illness
to recovery. In addition, services
available to persons coping with
psychosocial disabilities were
presented.
4. July 22,
2014
17:00-
20:15
Barriers, decision
making routes and a
personal meeting
The different decision-making
stages, identifying barriers
and their removal, followed
by a discussion of intervention
strategies.