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2024 Statement on the Right to Live in the Community: Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

June 11-13, 2024 marked the seventeenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held at the United Nations. This year’s theme revolved around rethinking what it looks like to include people with disabilities in all aspects of society, with a special focus on technology, humanitarian...
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Susan Dubbs, DSP
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Direct Support Professional Recognition Week

Susan Dubbs has worked as a Direct Support Professional for over 37 years. When she began in 1986, people with disability were moving out of institutions and establishing lives in the community, and she has seen how people thrive in environments where they had opportunities to explore their interests and direct their own lives. That’s...
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Listen Include Respect from the United Nations to Day-to-Day Life
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Listen Include Respect from the United Nations to Day-to-Day Life

How is individual choice and decision-making supported well, and how do we shift mindsets around the perceived capacity of people with intellectual and developmental disability? That’s one of the questions posed by Chuck Sweeder, President and CEO of Keystone Human Services
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Side Events at the UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Address Support for Refugees with Disabilities

To learn more about our work supporting refugees, visit Our Support for Ukraine . “Keystone Moldova has taken a pro-active approach to supporting refugees with disabilities,” said Dr. Ludmila Malcoci, Regional Director of Keystone Human Services International and Executive Director of Keystone Moldova. “We are working to ensure that people with disability are included in...
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Building Back Better: Reflections on the United Nations Conference of States Parties on the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities were marginalized long before the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the events of the last year and a half have highlighted the realities and consequences of systems that exclude people by design.
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Strengthening Families COSP 13 Side Event

Strengthening Families COSP 13 Side Event Join us on December 4 at 11:30 am EST for the United Nations 13th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities virtual side event on parent and family leadership in preventing institutionalization of children with disabilities. Panelists and participants will share examples...
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