Peer support/counselling Yes This service is for Peer counselling N/A (provided by adults with and self-help are The latest with the disabilities typically provided data about the counsellor and the client regardless of their by organisations of number of having equal status, and age or type of disabled people. groups is experience and disability. This service can be from 2004 and assistance in gaining funded by single relates solely to independence and health insurance groups within agencies or by their welfare umbrella (Freie Peer Beratung (peer organisation. In counseling) order to receive this In that year the funding, self-help Selbsthilfe (self-help) total of 3,108 organisations need self-help groups to work in of people with accordance with chronic illnesses the medical and disabilities classification of were active. This illnesses and number disabilities. As 203 groups many of them do of people with not adopt this mental illness, framework, this 108 of people service relies on with intellectual volunteers or disabilities, 391 of receives funding people with within different disabilities, 75 larger projects that groups of carers entail self-help and
Peer support/counselling (provided by with the counsellor and the client having equal status, and experience and assistance in gaining independence and Peer Beratung (peer counseling) Selbsthilfe (self-help) Yes This service is for adults with disabilities regardless of their age or type of disability. Peer counselling and self-help are typically provided by organisations of disabled people. This service can be funded by single health insurance agencies or by their umbrella organisation. In order to receive this funding, self-help organisations need to work in accordance with the medical classification of illnesses and disabilities. As many of them do not adopt this framework, this service relies on volunteers or receives funding within different larger projects that entail self-help and N/A The latest data about the number of groups is from 2004 and relates solely to groups within welfare (Freie In that year the total of 3,108 self-help groups of people with chronic illnesses and disabilities were active. This number 203 groups of people with mental illness, 108 of people with intellectual disabilities, 391 of people with disabilities, 75 groups of carers
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