Welcome! How the webinar works We will share a link to the recording Everyone will be on mute If you want to ask a question You can type in in the ‘question’ box at any time during the webinar If you have a problem, send a message to the ‘organiser’ Please check your handouts folder We will share a link to the recording Ines Bulic Cojocariu Deputy Director ENIL

Organisers European Network on Independent Living www.enil.eu Disability Rights International www.driadvocacy.org

CRPD Standards & UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children Catalina Devandas Aguilar UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Eric Rosenthal Executive Director Disability Rights International

Scientific Panel: Impact of group homes and residential care on child development Dr. Charles A. Nelson III Harvard Medical School Dr. Joan Kaufman Kennedy Krieger Institute & John Hopkins University Dr. Ruthie-Marie Beckwith Executive Director TASH

Thank you! Questions and discussion …..if you have a question, please type it into the question box.

Further reading Position paper: The right to live and grow up in a family for all children (DRI, ENIL, Validity Foundation and TASH), available at: https://enil.eu/news/right-to-live-and-grow-up-in-a-family-for-all-children/ Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (theme: right to liberty), available at: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disability/SRDisabilities/Pages/Reports.aspx General Comment No 5 on Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (living independently and being included in the community), available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRPD/C/GC/5&Lang=en

Thank you! ines.bulic@enil.eu erosenthal@driadvocacy.org