Global Leadership

Leadership

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Genevieve Fitzgibbon

President and CEO of Keystone Human Services International
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Ludmila Malcoci

Regional Director, Central and Eastern Europe
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Promoting Global Inclusion

Keystone Human Services designs and implements culturally relevant community-based services and service systems that promote full integration and culturally valued roles for people with disability within their communities.

Being a valued part of the community matters. Person-directed planning and advocacy from those with lived experience guide our work to develop sustainable systems.

We are proud to be part of a global disability rights movement, alongside advocates, leaders, and organizations from around the world.

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Reports

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May

Recognizing that Children with Disabilities Are Children First: A Study on the Situation of Care and Protection of Children with Disabilities in India

Based on the importance of including children with disabilities in the growing movement toward deinstitutionalization and care reform, the Children and Families Together – India consortium, with Keystone Human Services International as the prime, undertook an assessment of the situation of care and protection of children with disabilities in India. The reports focuses on key...
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May

Rapid Assessment India

Globally, an estimated 240 million children, or one in every 10 children have a disability. They face disproportionate and often compounding challenges in accessing basic services such as nutrition and health, to access to water and sanitation, protection from violence and exploitation, and education. They often become invisible in our child protection services, falling through...
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May

Inclusive Care Reform and Ensuring Community Inclusion for ALL Children

The National Learning Event in New Delhi, India on December 10-11, 2025 highlighted inclusive care reform and community inclusion for all children, as well as practical tools and innovative approaches to shift the focus from institutionalization to family- and community-based care. This report highlights key takeaways from this first-of-its-kind event.
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May

Overview Session on Children with Disabilities and Care Reform in India

On December 9, 2024, stakeholders from Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (ODPs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), parents, young people with disabilities, and disability advocates came together to discuss critical issues related to the care and protection of children with disabilities, deinstitutionalization, and care reform. This report summarizes the key discussions, outcomes, and recommendations.
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Keystone Human Services at the UN

Through Special Consultative Status at the UN, we bring discussions of disability inclusive disaster response, deinstitutionalization, and advocacy for and with people with disability to a global stage, influencing decision-makers at the highest international level.

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Advocating for EU Support for Deinstitutionalization in Moldova

Keystone Human Services International’s Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe developed a position paper addressed to the European Union to advocate for financial support for inclusive community living and ending institutionalization of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Moldova. Keystone Moldova, EASPD, Validity Foundation, Inclusion Europe, Institutul pentru Drepturile Omului (IDOM), and Alianta Organizatiilor pentru Persoane cu Dizabilitati (AOPD) have each endorsed the position paper and the proposed initiative.

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KHS’s Listen Include Respect Initiative

What does it mean to provide good support? Through our partnership with Inclusion International, Keystone Human Services is working to strengthen our understanding of individual rights and support inclusive participation. Our goal is to ensure people accepting supports from Keystone Human Services are listened to and included, and their rights are respected. Over the past year, we have partnered with self-advocates, exploring together how the Listen Include Respect global guidelines for inclusion and meaningful participation for people with disabilities can impact an organization that provides direct support.

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Participation in the UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Keystone Human Services joined the conversations at the United Nations Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, where we explored how individual choice and decision making are supported well and how we can shift mindsets around the perceived capacity of people with intellectual and developmental disability, as well as the critical role direct support workers play in partnering with people with disability to create more communities where everyone belongs.

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Consultancy

Keystone Human Services partners with people with disability, families, governments, and other organizations and leaders to support the disability rights movement and the development of community-based services for people with disability. We provide consultation and education around dismantling institutions and developing responsive, effective, and inclusive supports that help people move toward belonging, acceptance, and a rich community life.

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Advocacy

We join people with disability in their advocacy for full inclusion and social justice. Disability rights are human rights.

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Inclusive Education

Children with disability have the right to an education, to be included in school and in the classroom with the opportunity to learn, build relationships, and develop the skills they need to thrive in their communities. We provide consultancy and opportunities for schools and educators to build their capacity to provide fully integrated, inclusive education, as well as addressing the mindsets and other barriers to school inclusion.

Learn more about our consultancy, recent inclusive education initiatives, and the Alternativ Theater’s anti-discrimination efforts.