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Abstract:
Children and youth living in alternative care represent a vulnerable group in need primarily because of the lack of parental care and placement in some form of alternative care. Before living in alternative care, they usually experience several risks, including living in economic hardship and poverty, being victims of abuse and neglect, facing parents’ or their mental health problems, and experiencing other stressful or traumatic experiences. Still, some youth show positive outcomes in the face of these adversities, demonstrating resilience.
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This paper examines the benefits and challenges of de-institutionalizing disability residential services in Croatia through Open Society Foundation’s Mental Health Initiative (MHI). The MHI established a partnership with The Association for Promoting Inclusion (API) and advocated for the replacement of long-stay institutions with community-based alternatives. This document describes how API used Croatian law to develop a program that provided services to the community. Once services began, API advocated for the de-institutionalization of children with intellectual disabilities and…
This paper examines the work Open Society Foundations have done in Croatia as part of its Mental Health Initiative (MHI), with the goal of helping people with disabilities return to their communities where they are supported by family and friends. For 17 years, MHI has worked with local partners and advocated with successive Croatian governments for the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and the replacement of long-stay institutions with community-based alternatives. Deinstitutionalization and the development…