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Making Life a Safe Adventure
Strengthening families of children with disabilities to prevent maltreatment
This booklet is about the prevention of maltreatment of children with disabilities in the domestic environment. In advancing the concept of prevention the text focuses on protective factors as corner stones for the construction of prevention strategies. It highlights the importance of the family and of its strength and needs, and seeks to counter feelings of frustration, omnipotence or superiority among professionals by providing them with a concrete, and perhaps for some, new perspective on their work.
This booklet primarily targets professionals working for the well-being of children with disabilities and their families, although many other stakeholders, such as parents or persons with disabilities and their representative organisations, might find the content of interest. The authors hope that the booklet might contribute to build a bridge between families and professional carers.
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daphneChildhood, Disability and Violence
Empowering disability organisations to develop prevention strategies
This booklet aims to promote awareness among associations and cooperatives of people with disabilities and their families about the issue of domestic violence against children with disabilities. As such it is basically concerned with emancipation and with helping these organisations to develop their own view on the phenomenon. The booklet targets leaders and staff members of disability organisations that want to discuss the issue of maltreatment within the organisation or with their external network and it provides quality information written by peer organisations.
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RoadmapRoadmap for the Prevention of Maltreatment of Persons
with Intellectual and/or Multiple Disabilities

The following publication is prepared by one of the network organisations, Federação Nacional de Cooperativas de Solidariedade Social (FE­NACERCI – Portuguese National Federation of Social Solidarity Cooperatives), with funding of the Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação, I.P.
 AUTHORS: Sara Gésero Neto, FENACERCI; Ale­xandra Mendes, CERCIOEIRAS; Ana Rodrigues, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana; Ana Fausti­no, CERCICA; André Saraiva, CERCICA

SUMMARY

This roadmap for the prevention of maltreatment of persons with intellectual and/or multiple disa­bilities is a tool for organisations working with the disabled.
Its aim is to identify, record and flag situations of maltreatment and set out a protocol for the preven­tion of and action against neglect, abuse, maltreat­ment and discrimination.
The concept of maltreatment is based on the Eco­logical Systems Theory.
The instrument used for evaluation and diagnosis focuses on three dimensions: the risk to disabled persons and their families, protection of disabled persons and their families and crime. Each qualita­tive dimension includes indicators that have been assessed by a multidisciplinary team. The result of the evaluation shows the degree of risk or protec­tion for each dimension: none, low, moderate or high. Any crime must be reported to the authorities immediately.
Risk assessment serves as a basis for drafting an individual intervention plan aimed at preventing risk factors and fostering protection.
The roadmap recommends setting up committees for the protection of adults with disabilities and in­cluding concrete measures against maltreatment in the 2011-2013 National Disability Strategy.
 The publication consists in guidelines and an assessment tool. 

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