The conference has covered a large number of different articles within the CRPD. The panel discussing Article 19 change my perspective on group homes and housing for individuals with disabilities, specifically psychosocial disabilties. The main idea which has been continually discussed and has been a long battle was deinstitutionalization. There’s not much that comes from institutions but negative. Individuals lack their own control of their life. From the conference it was argued that even though individuals may not have control of their life due to their psychosocial impairments, they still lack the little control that they dot have such as choosing who they want to be with, what religion they choose to practice, what their daily activities can be, and what medications they want to take. Individuals are deprived of their liberty. To solve the violations of human rights, the idea of deinstitutionalization came into play and group homes were created: a home where a small number of unrelated people in need of care, support, or supervision can live together. The idea was to create social inclusion. Social inclusion influences living environments influenced level of social abilities. The greater the independent living the greater inclusives community which maintains a person’s autonomy.
The problem now is that when the group homes were created the Level of social inclusion also influence by service providers. The staff attitudes levels on disability influenced the individual’s availability to the rest of tech community affecting their social competence. The group homes were meant to be beneficially yet the homes are becoming mini institutions. Where do we take things from here? Because I’m my understanding group homes were a positive, but now my perspective have changed because there seems to be front that “promotes” inclusion in a community and increasing social interactions but in reality the supervisors are in control of their access to the community. Are these the same authorities that created institutions, what should our next step be to reorganize group homes. The theme here is that one size fits all, no matter what differences there may be between individuals disability within the group home, everyone is receiving the same treatment and accessibilities to the community. How do we change this and protect people’s autonomy, is there a medium between the two?