MINCE - Model for Inclusive Community Education project
Duration of the project: November 2015 – October 2017
Project coordinator: Lebenshilfen Soziale Dienste GmbH, Austrija
Partner countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia.
The aim of the project is to strengthen the inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities in society.
During the past decades, many measures for integration and inclusion have been implemented in the field of disability, focusing on people with learning disabilities or physical disabilities. However, 30 years after the beginning of the integration movement people with severe intellectual disabilities are still marginalized.
It is necessary to dismantle barriers in order to perceive and treat people with severe intellectual disabilities as independent individuals with their own ideas, wishes, and dreams.
MINCE project is based on this idea. It is designed to promote the inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities in society - the Model for Inclusive Community Education.
- raising awareness in society about the needs of people with severe intellectual disabilities, removing of social barriers and discrimination
- co-operation with peer mediators on issues related to the inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities
- professional training of peer mediators on advocacy and inclusion
- development of professional skills for disability care workers
- support to the implementation of inclusive community education
- people with severe intellectual disabilities
- people with learning difficulties or minor intellectual disabilities
- disability care workers
- disability organisations and associations etc.
- MINCE Curriculum for Peer Mediators
- MINCE STEP UP - Guide for Peer Mediators
- MINCE Curriculum for Disability Care Workers
- MINCE Guidelines for Disability Care Institutions
- MINCE Compendium
- MINCE Movie
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