05.08.08 - Gerhard Lichtenauer -

Request to the NÖ Directive, 'Living for the mentally and multiple handicapped people' (OPEN LETTER)

Austrian citizens ' initiative “the Home home”

Subject:	Request as to the content of the newly adopted NÖ Directive “Housing for mentally and multiple disabled people”
Date:	05 Aug 2008 16:39
From:
To:	“Mag. Johanna Mikl-Leitner, NÖ social councillor”

OPEN LETTER

Dear wife Likes a social councillor. Mikl-Leitner,

in a today's press release for the Ground-breaking ceremony for the To and,increase in life help Sollenau (Karl Ryker village) a newly adopted NÖ Directive “Housing for the mentally and multiple handicapped people” .

According to today's emission warranty of this policy that the needy people in their immediate living environment, accurate and expedient assistance and support to the respective individual needs to know. The o. g. life - support facility in Sollenau confirm, already 20 years ago, with the demand-oriented and individual care of severely disabled people to set a milestone.

Fortunately, in the last decades, international developments in the understanding actually need just supports, the company had an equal part and inclusion, that any hospital, institutional Housing arrangements never be able to come close to the Optimum for a private family, or any other self - chosen living and support the form and, therefore, only as a stopgap or interim solution.

As a carer of a severely Close to allow multi-disabled Person of this target group and as Initiator of an Austria-wide Initiative for these formulations, the heart beat, I am extremely excited about the contents of this Directive. According to the above-quoted objective of this Directive, it must be a milestone that could also go in the direction of the implementation of the UN disability Convention.

I therefore request you to send of this Directive and, where applicable, the corresponding explanations or resolutions.

With kind Regards,
Ing. Gerhard Lichtenauer
The Initiator of the Austrian citizens ' initiative “Home instead of home”
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