COMMUNITY-BASED HOUSING – A TYPE OF PROVIDING SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN THE COMMUNITY

Osobe s intelektualnim teškoćama od davnina društvo marginalizira zatvarajući ih u zasebne institucije, oduzimajući im ljudska prava i slobode, te ih se općenito tereti(lo) kako obezvrjeđuju društvo. Promjenama shvaćanja invaliditeta, mijenjale su se i politike prema osobama s invaliditetom, što se odražava(lo) u procesima deinstitucionalizacije i transformacije domova socijalne skrbi za osobe s invaliditetom, što je zahtijevalo i određene promjene u odnosu prema osobama s invaliditetom. Osim ideje organiziranog stanovanja, kao alternativnog načina zbrinjavanja osoba s intelektualnim teškoćama, razvija se i osobno usmjereno planiranje u radu s korisnicima. U ovom radu je prikazano organizirano stanovanje, njegove prednosti i problematika s kojom se susreću korisnici, te individualno planiranje kao nova metoda u radu s korisnicima, u ovom slučaju, osobama s intelektualnim teškoćama.People with intellectual disabilities have always been marginalized by the society by closing them into separate institutions and taking their human rights and freedoms away. People with intellectual disabilities were generally charged by the public opinion that they undermine the society. Politics towards people with intellectual disabilities have been changing according to the general understanding of disabilities, which was reflected in the processes of deinstitutionalization and transformation of the social welfare homes for people with disabilities. This required certain changes in relations to the people with disabilities. In addition to the idea of organized-based housing as an alternative way of dealing with people with intellectual disabilities, personal planning has also been developing among the users. This paper presents organized-based housing and its benefits, as well as problems that users face and individual planning as a new method of working with users, which are in this case people with intellectual disabilities