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August 26, 2005
National Seminar On Independent Living -NG CHUNG CHIAT
National Seminar On Independent Living (IL)
The Department of Social Welfare Malaysia will be organising a seminar on Independent Living (IL) together with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This is the first national seminar on Independent Living (IL) which will be conducted by two resource persons from the Japan Council on Independent Living Centres (JIL).
This is an introductory seminar on IL. The objective of this seminar is to introduce the basic philosophy and practices of IL to people who are working on disability issues in Malaysia.
Date:
10th September 2005
Time:
9.00 a.m – 5.00 p.m.
Venue :
Institute Latihan Majilis Kebaijikan dan Pembangunan
Masyarakat Kebangsaan Malaysia, 17, Jalan 1/48A,
Bandar Baru Sentul, 51000 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-40447644
Seminar Fee:
Free of charge
Closing Date for registration:
28th August, 2005
Advanced registration required. Number of participants is limited to 100. Places will be given on a first-come-first-served basis.
Language:
English (Translation from Japanese)
(Sign language translation will be arranged upon request)
Resource persons:
Ms. Hiroko Akiyama, Director of Hino IL Centre.
Worked as a consultant on IL for JICA in Thailand, and has conducted training courses in the Philippines and Korea. Has published several books on IL and peer-counselling in Japanese.
Ms. Aiko Tsutsumi, Vice President of Machida Human Network (IL centre) Published several books on IL, peer-counselling, and issues on Eugenic protection law in Japanese. She was also in charge of several international training programmes on IL.
Please refer to Appendix A for details of the seminar.
Appendix A
Details of Seminar:
What is Independent Living (IL)?
“Even with severe disability, your life is only once.
So, enjoy and enrich your life!!” This is the philosophy of the independent living (IL) movement. People with Disabilities (PWD) may not be able to take care of their personal matters by themselves, nor work to earn money. But they can design their own lives and participate in society with the necessary assistance and support. This is IL. IL centres support the realization of IL. In Japan, 131 IL centres have been established in the last 20years. IL is also spreading into developing countries. The pillars of IL centres’ activities are IL programmes, peer-counselling, personal assistant (PA) service and advocacy. In this seminar, we would like to introduce these pillars together with the philosophy of IL.
Timetable :
9.00-9.30 Opening
9.30-10.30 History and philosophy of IL movement
10.30-11.00 Tea break
11.00-12.00 Introduction to IL
12.00-12.30 Q&A
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Organisation for social movement and service delivery
14.30-15.30 Disabled people in Asia and solidarity
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-16.45 Q&A
16.45-17.00 Closing
Posted by jicafriends at August 26, 2005 03:18 PM
Comments
congatulations!!!!!,
I would love to have information about conclutions of your semminar.
go ahead.
Carlos Kaiser
Posted by: carlos kaiser at August 29, 2005 10:20 PM