ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Social Inclusion for Persons

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Social Inclusion for Persons with Disability

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION Going toward Inclusion of Persons with Disability

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO History of the Program PROGRAM THE SECRETARY OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE RECOGNIZES THIS PROGRAM AS A NATIONAL REFERENCE • 17 field teams • 1 travelling team • supervision • Strategic Planning • Monitoring systems implementation • Income making iniciatives/SEBRAE • Family Health Program • transport 1994 1998 1999 PROJECT COORDINATION • 3 teams • 22 field teams • 3 communities 2000 2001/2002 2003/2004 • Social Change Reaserch Fio. Cruz/Ensp • Public Social Workers 2005

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Distribution Map 23 teams 563 communities 9. 272 on file in 2001

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO MONITORING AND EVALUATION PLAN FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PERSON WITH DISABILITY INDICATORS DEMAND FOLLOW UP YES EDUCATION HEALTH SOCIABILITY WORK INCOME DOCUMENTATION BENEFITS ACCESSIBILITY NO SOLUTION EA YES NO REMARKS

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO CBR AND FHP* Quality Partnership • Data Base record of 100% of persons with disabilities; • Resourse Optimization; • More efficacy in the actions. *FHP – Family Health Program

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION PROGRAM FUNLAR RIO

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO This program, in its many different forms, objectives the non-confinement, the break of isolation of persons with disabilities in big institutions, away from their family and the society as a whole. • There are still, in Brazil, many practices toward persons with disabilities that are away from social inclusion and make themselves evident by the marginalization and exclusion common to the clinic model. • The Deinstitutionalization Program by FUNLAR RIO has four on going different deployment forms and two strategies

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO 1. CASA LAR (Home Care Center) - started in 1999 It is an assisted housing for persons with disabilities with high degree of difficulty and without family references. There are 3 CASAS LARES. In each one there are 11 persons residing. The program has a total of 44 professionals and 2 vans for its 3 rented houses. The • team is composes of a social worker, a caretaker, a nurse, a cook, a driver and an assistant for general tasks. The tenants are very vulnerable in terms of heath, which means medicines, escorts and frequent placement in hospitals. Depending on the physical and health conditions of each person, he or she participates in sport, cultural and/or educational activities offered in the city spaces. • The cost person per month is US$830. 00.

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO 2. CASA DIA (Day Care Center) – started in 2002 In the CASA DIA the professionals take the role of the family. Children and adolescents (7 to 20 year old) arrive in the morning and are taken to school, to physiotherapy, on strolls, excursions and, by the end of the day, are taken back to their houses. Each CASA DIA has one van available. • Aside from the daily life activities, cultural, occupational and sport activities are also offered, complementing the school’s ones. There are 4 CASAS DIA (two rented, two in public buildings) attending 100 children and adolescents. • The monthly cost person is US$289. 00.

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO 3. REPUBLICA (Republic House) – started in 2003 REPUBLICAS, 5 of them, are collective housings for adults with disabilities, with some autonomy, removed from the streets and taken initially to a big city shelter. – The Fazenda Modelo (Model Farm), where there are 2, 000 people residing. They have lived there for several years. • 50 of them, all with disabilities, were removed to the REPUBLICAS. In the REPUBLICAS, the daily life activities and the management of the house are the responsibility of the tenants. The houses are rented, each one with 10 persons and they can count with a team of social workers and helpers, totaling 5 professionals for all REPUBLICAS. The monthly cost person is US$154. 00. • (The monthly cost person in the Model Farm was US$605. 00)

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO • 4. BOLSA CIDADÃ (Citizen Grant) – started in 1999 The BOLSA CIDADÃ is a grant made up of financial resources given to the family that want to keep their highly disabled family member at home. These families are assisted by social workers. FUNLAR RIO offers today 23 BOLSAS. The monthly cost person is US$168. 00.

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Strategies that strengthens the deinstitutionalization 1. An institutional census was made in 2003, mapping all institutions that shelter persons with disabilities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. • 2. In 2007 there will be a 2 nd phase of the Census/2003, recording all persons with disabilities who are presently in asylums and mapping the cost per capita of this service. 3. Creation of the Prime Network of Social Assistance, focusing persons with disabilities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A network of 30 private institutions devoted to persons with disabilities is formally • constituted since 2004. FUNLAR RIO supervises these institutions and grants each one the value of US$51. 15 per capita/month. FUNLAR RIO does not have the values for the total cost per capita/month of these institutions since they have other forms of financing.

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Budgetary Information 2005 Budget of the City of Rio de Janeiro Budget of FUNLAR RIO • US$4, 184, 199, 243. 00 US$8, 421, 125. 00 Home Care Center US$328, 817. 00 Day Care Center US$346, 620. 00 Republic House US$92, 454. 00 Citizen Grants US$46, 214. 00 Deinstitutionalization • Community-Based Rehabilitation Program US$949, 793. 00

ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL FUNLAR RIO Contact • Dr. Leda de Azevedo – President, Funlar Rio ledaazevedo@pcrj. gov. br •