Policymaking
The welfare for Persons with Disabilities (PwD), as expressed through the design and provision of services for PwD, represents a basic axis of national provisions & implementations, advocating over the human rights of PwD.
All these legal provisions are implemented through a series of policies relevant to the persons with disabilities, in which, participatory planning with the involvement of the service provider and the beneficiary, is of utmost importance. Firstly, for the anticipation of developing needs of PwD and secondly for the optimal and effective servicing of these needs.
The NET, as a basic social stakeholder, supports an effective policymaking for PwD, by attending to their real needs, through the provision of services that have the highest relevance to their everyday life.
The service providers to PwD – members of The NET, do have the necessary proximity to the field as well as the necessary scientific infrastructure, so that they recognize timely the emerging needs of the PwD they service and cover them with a plethora of well-documented and applied interventions, contributing this way with their work, to the optimal policymaking for PwD, in the context of an anthropocentric, national welfare design.
The members of the working team are the following:
Konstantina Anagnostou (Panhellenic Association of Adapted Activities “ALMA”)
Giorgos Apostolopoulos (ESTIA Support & Social Care Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities)
Nikos Vasalos (Ploes)
Dionysia Vasilara (Amimoni)
Eleni Drakopoulou (Panhellenic Association of Adapted Activities “ALMA”)
Andriani Efstathiou-Maniati (ELEPAP)
Giovanna Kampouri (Estia Agios Nikolaos)
Christina Kolliatsi (Estia Agios Nikolaos)
Constantinos Kontogeorgos (Child and Adolescent’s Center)
Katerina Konstantopoulou (MARGARITA VTC)
Antonia Makridou (“THEOTOKOS” Foundation)
Lida Mamali (National Council of YMCAs)
Erasmia Markopoulou (Autism Association of Larissa)
Foteini Midoucha (Autism Association of Larissa)
Christina Bakari (Organisation for the Protection of Persons with Autism–P.D.D. of the prefecture of Kastoria)
Zozefina Nomikou (ESTIA Support & Social Care Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities)
Rena Radou (“SYZOI” – Parents’ Association of People with Vision Disorders & Additional Disabilities)
Giorgos Retsos (Association of Parents, Guardians and Friends of PwD “To Ergastiri”)
Eleni Roditi (Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door)
Julia Stavridou (“PAMMAKARISTOS” Foundation for Child)
