Voice for Autism: Advocacy & Motion is a brand new NGO that focuses on supporting younger adults with disabilities to construct significant, related lives.
The NGO was based by a bunch of involved mother and father and professionals united within the perception that they must safe primary human rights for his or her family members and provides a voice to younger adults with disabilities.
They plan to make use of their experience to arrange a bunch house in Nicosia the place residents can dwell fulfilled, unbiased lives and attain their full potential.
This primary house will function a prototype for future group properties. The mannequin is one whereby the NGO, with its experience and expertise with autism, companions with authorities and personal enterprise to create a residence that might be a everlasting house for the autism group.
There’s at the moment no such facility in Nicosia and there’s an pressing want for such properties.
Ellen Georgiou Pontikis, President of Voice for Autism, has a 27-year-old son who’s autistic and has skilled first-hand how profitable group properties and work packages work abroad.
“There isn’t any purpose we are able to’t have comparable packages in Cyprus,” she says.
“The regulation is on our facet and we have to get the federal government on our facet as we start to place much-needed packages in place. Civil societies around the globe are taking be aware that the autism inhabitants is rising, furthermore it’s getting older, and sources must be made out there.
“There are EU mandates in place that state individuals with disabilities have a proper to unbiased and supportive dwelling providers and our aim is to offer them a voice in reaching these primary human rights.”
Voice for Autism is launching an consciousness marketing campaign and has began lobbying authorities to safe these rights.
The quick targets of the NGO are:
- To create a bunch house offering unbiased and supported dwelling providers for younger adults with disabilities to allow them to attain their fullest potential.
- To offer employment alternatives for younger individuals with disabilities. The main target is inclusion, productiveness and self-worth.
- To create and help high-quality packages that maximize the potential of younger individuals with disabilities and supply alternatives to take part at school campuses, volunteer centres, work websites, and different academic and leisure actions.
- To advocate for inclusive communities and strategic initiatives to rework the nationwide panorama for younger adults with disabilities.
The CDC (Centres for Illness Management & Prevention) within the USA estimates that 1 in 44 kids are on the autism spectrum. This demographic is an getting older one and the truth is there are actually an rising variety of younger adults recognized with autism who’re getting older out of the college system and households are determined to safe a spot in society and high quality of life for them.
Board Members of Voice for Autism contains Eugenia Mina, a guardian of a younger grownup with autism and a speech pathologist; Andrie Christodoulidou, a particular wants educator and Autism professional; and NGO consultants Fadi Marouf and Noeleen Advani.
“We’re robust, skilled, certified voices and we’re going to be heard,” says Pontikis. “We give a voice to all younger adults with disabilities who’re looking for a spot in a civil society and who’ve primary rights to dwell a life with dignity and respect.”
Voice for Autism: Advocacy & Motion is a registered NGO and non-profit that gives advocacy and help for younger adults with disabilities to construct significant, related lives. We work to advance independence, productiveness and inclusion, and advocate for improved private and non-private insurance policies.
www.voiceforautism.org