1. Udruženje mladih sa hendikepom Crne Gore
Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro (AYDM)
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2. UMHCG
Meaning of logo: 4 silhouettes with open arms
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3. For youth with disabilities, without barriers! Mission of AYDM
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Vision of AYDM
For youth with disabilities, without barriers!
Mission of AYDM
AYDM promotes equal position of youth with disabilities in society through activities and initiatives for establishing legal, educational, cultural and social frame that enables it.
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4. UMHCG
AYDM is a non-governmental organization, registered on October 22, It gathers youth with all kinds of disabilities (cross-disability approach) as well as people without disabilities willing to participate in activities of the future co-existence and inclusion.
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5. UMHCG
It is a non-profit organization, founded firstly to provide psychosocial support, solving numerous and complex problems that youth with disabilities encounter daily, as well as creation of educational conditions for College and University opportunities.
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6. In our work we are guided by a model based on human rights.
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In our work we are guided by a model based on human rights.
For us disability is a human right issue.
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7. Activity level - National;
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Service users are youth with all types of disabilities up to 35, however within the Legal program and antidiscrimination the target group are people with all types of disabilities, regardless on age;
Activity level - National;
Gets funds from: National and International Projects ;
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8. Program for Education; Program for Employment and Human Resources;
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We have 6 programs:
Program for Education;
Program for Employment and Human Resources;
Program for Independent Living of PWDs (Support services: personal empowerment of PWDs, schooling and assigning of guide and assistance dogs);
Program for accessibility;
Legal program and antidiscrimination;
Program for International Cooperation;
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9. Student’s Advisory Office include following activities:
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Program for education includes: Student Service (current Student Advisory Office), Monitoring and proposing legislation, Launching an initiatives for the (physical) adaptation of education institutions, as many other support services to students with disabilities
Student’s Advisory Office include following activities:
Enrollment at the faculty;
Enrollment to principle of affirmative action;
Obtaining student accommodation;
Release all students from paying tuition fees;
Initiate providing of student loans and scholarships;
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10. Providing different types of information;
Support when it comes to passing an exams and refering an initiatives to the faculties in order to enable passing in a form that best suits the student (started through project
Support through initiatives to delay an exams for students who cannot pass the same in first passing date (started through project
Providing educational trainings for teaching and non-teaching stuff and students with and without disabilities;
Providing different types of information;
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11. Ensuring the literature for the students with visual impairment;
The following three kind of support services are providing for several students, based on priorities:
Ensuring the literature for the students with visual impairment;
Accessible transport - transport from door to door;
Personal assistance and assistance in teaching
All of these support services are only providing volontary or based on projects
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12. Program for Employment and Human Resources
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Program for Employment and Human Resources
Through this Program we provide educational trainings and practice for students with disabilities
AYDM has 11 employees:
9 person with disabilities
2 person without disabilities
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13. Program for accessibility
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Program for accessibility
We initiate many different activities for adapting buildings, and some of them we adapt with support of donors
if someone does not adapt its object or institution at a given time, we are starting lawsuits against discrimination
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14. Program for international cooperation We are member of:
World Disability Union;
European network on independent living;
European guide dog federation;
SEE Network of youth and students with disabilities (SRB, MC, MNE);
Network of youth and students with disabilities of Serbia and Montenegro;
Anna Lind Foundation;
European Youth Foundation
We are re-accredited within the ERASMUS + Programme
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15. UMHCG
In the folowing address you can find our:
Facebook page:
Web site:
Twitter:
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16. Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro
Contact us:
Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro
Rista Dragićevića 7 Building ‘Šajo’, entrance IV, I/ Podgorica
Tel/fax: +381 (0) Mobile phone: +381 (0)
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17. “Nothing about us, without us!”
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“Nothing about us, without us!”
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18. UMHCG Interesting facts:
We are recipient of award for Social integration of ERSTE Foundation in 2009 and again we are finalists for 2013
We have received plaques for Employer of the Year for 2013 and 2014
We have received in 2014 Zero Project Award for Innovative Practice – Accessible transport within Student Service
We have received in 2014 an Award for Human Rights and Civil Activism from Center of Civil Education
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24. Thanks for attention!
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