To enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities by facilitating access to health care that meets their specific needs and housing that is defined as a home away from home. All people with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities have the right to live as independently as possible with the appropriate support and to be included in the wider community under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
To propagate a model of health care for the disabled that encompasses several medical providers under the same facility.
Create awareness on the challenges we face for the medical treatment with persons with developmental disabilities.
Empower people with intellectual disabilities by making it easier to receive appropriate support for living.
Housing should be an extension of self,the right to housing and living support appropriate to their individual need.
To promote and encourage the establishment of a medical clinic dedicated to persons with disabilities where most simple medical procedures can be performed all in the same day. The reason a dedicated clinic is so important is that most people with mental disabilities need some form of sedation for medical treatments because they don’t understand and are traumatized by treatment. Sedating them several times a year for simple procedures like a simple physical should not be performed when it is not necessary. In most cases this is what happens now ! Being sedated several times a year causes phobia which contributes to trauma. The better option is to sedate them once and have the Dentist check their teeth, the Phlebotomists draw blood for lab work, the ENT ear doctor check their ears and many other simple procedures. All of these can be performed in one place while they are sedated.
