The Center for Support of Persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA Skopje, in cooperation with The Republic Center for Support of Persons with Intellectual Disability – PORAKA, in the past period held five workshops from the E-learning Course within the international project “Disability Leaders of Tomorrow” of EASPD – European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disability. This project has the goal to strengthen the capacity of service providers for persons with disability in promoting and coordinating real and sustainable change in service delivery in 15 Central and Eastern European countries.
In Macedonia, participants on the workshops were candidates from 15 different organizations – service providers for persons with disability, who took part in an intensive training course in order to gain adequate knowledge and experiences regarding the news, challenges and possibilities for advancing the whole process of service provision for persons with disability.
Each of the five workshops discussed a separate module from the E-learning Courses:
• Module 1 “Human Rights and Services for Persons with Disability: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Legal Context”
• Module 2 “Development of Social Services and Policies in Europe”
• Module 3 “Planning Inclusive Communities”
• Module 4 “Development of Quality Disability Services”
• Module 5 “Towards Personalized Services”
In interactive atmosphere at the workshops, apart from new knowledge, the candidates had the opportunity to discuss and share their experiences, and also to jointly prepare assignments – essays for each of the modules. Moreover, each of the candidates underwent additional five, i.e., in total ten modules at the online platform www.dlot.eu.
The training cycle in Macedonia has been conducted by Vasilka Dimoska, MD, from the Republic Center – PORAKA (mentor in the first training phase) and Vlado Krstovski from PORAKA Skopje (candidate in the first training phase and mentor in the second training phase).
Disability Leaders of Tomorrow Project is implemented by EASPD – European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disability, and the Republic Center – PORAKA is partner organization in Macedonia. Additional information is available on www.easpd.eu, www.dlot.eu and www.poraka.org.mk.
