COFACE actions and tools are built around the objectives of developing a range of person-centred support services in the community, having efficient ways to exercise and monitor the respect of human rights, making the mainstream sector inclusive and accessible, empowering families of persons with disabilities, and driving a cultural shift to embrace inclusion as an overarching value in society.
In order to boost the shift towards fully inclusive societies, the COFACE Disability platform for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families produced the S.H.I.F.T. guide in 2019, which proposes 5 objectives, 15 tools, and 45 actions in the areas of Support, Human rights, Independence, Families and society Transition to achieve meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities and their families.
The S.H.I.F.T. guide can be used by different stakeholders at different levels: NGOs, social and health service providers (managers and operational staff), funders, policy-makers, self-advocates, family carers, employers, education professionals (management and operational staff), urban developments and housing providers, European decision-makers across the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the EU, local and regional authorities, trade unions and employers.
