given a different name disability, who is eligible for the recruit and manage reference for in your country this data, service staff providing including who is the support; information disability, provider and funder of determine the about the deaf or hard services (i.e. national activities for which period of hearing, government, local support is needed; covered by blind) government, determine how the the data. municipality, NGO, budget for services Please private company, etc.)? and supports is indicate, if used; data is choose types of available, if equipment and there has adaptations to been decrease / meet their needs? increase in the last five years -No/Not -Piloted -Apart from the temporary In the pilot project, In ‘Tiedän provided for among young pilot project, the service is the participants were mitä tahdon!’ in law people and generally not available, encouraged to gather project, Direct payments / -Personal with therefore this information is a support group to personal personal budgets have intellectual not applicable. help with mapping budgets were budgets/individual been piloted disabilities - Participants for the pilot their personal wishes, tried out with budget in Finland as -Also piloted project ‘Tiedän mitä goals and needs. The 30 persons (cash payment a part in services for tahdon!’ were searched participants using services enabling service users of ’Tiedän elderly among users of other expressed which kind for disabled to employ personal mitä tahdon!’ services for persons with of services they people, after assistants or freely (I know what disabilities in the city of would need and how the project, choose using various I want!) Vantaa and South Karelia the existing services 12 persons service providers) project and in Social and Health Care should be modified. had a Henkilökohtainen a smaller District. Based on these personal budjetointi scale in the wishes, the costs of budged. For municipalities the needed services some were calculated for participants,
given a different name in your country disability, disability, deaf or hard of hearing, blind) who is eligible for the service who is the provider and funder of services (i.e. national government, local government, municipality, NGO, private company, etc.)? recruit and manage staff providing support; determine the activities for which support is needed; determine how the budget for services and supports is used; choose types of equipment and adaptations to meet their needs? reference for this data, including information about the period covered by the data. Please indicate, if data is available, if there has been decrease / increase in the last five years Direct payments / personal budgets/individual budget (cash payment enabling service users to employ personal assistants or freely choose using various service providers) Henkilökohtainen budjetointi -No/Not provided for in law -Personal budgets have been piloted in Finland as a part of ’Tiedän mitä tahdon!’ (I know what I want!) project and in a smaller scale in the municipalities -Piloted among young people and with intellectual disabilities -Also piloted in services for elderly -Apart from the temporary pilot project, the service is generally not available, therefore this information is not applicable. - Participants for the pilot project ‘Tiedän mitä tahdon!’ were searched among users of other services for persons with disabilities in the city of Vantaa and South Karelia Social and Health Care District. In the pilot project, the participants were encouraged to gather a support group to help with mapping their personal wishes, goals and needs. The participants expressed which kind of services they would need and how the existing services should be modified. Based on these wishes, the costs of the needed services were calculated for In ‘Tiedän mitä tahdon!’ project, personal budgets were tried out with 30 persons using services for disabled people, after the project, 12 persons had a personal budged. For some participants,
finland-services-mapping-independent-living-fi.docx