2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (theme: right to liberty), available at:
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:

8. Thank you!