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Winner Regional Innovation Award 2010
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Sven-Erik Pistol and
Arne Sandemo
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The Swedish Region Uppsala presented the “SUF-Resource Centre” which was rewarded in the category “Economy”; the project aims at reducing the marginalisation of families, where parents have intellectual disabilities.
The objective is to improve their situations and reduce isolation, and to build bridges between many different parts of the governance structure at local and regional level. |
Dr. Peter HEYDEBRECK, Managing Director of Inno AG, one of the jury members, noted: “I am particularly fond of this initiative which is an excellent example of social innovation with a huge impact on economic welfare.”
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"SUF” stands for the multi-agency collaboration work that we have been developing since 1999 in order to best meet the needs of children and parents in families where a parent has some type of cognitive impairment.
Cognitive impairment includes intellectual disabilities, neuropsychological disorders or acquired brain injury.
When practitioners intervene to provide specialized support, it is very important to use all the combined knowledge and information that is available in supporting parents and their children.
The “FIB” project is a collaboration project based in Uppsala County which aims to develop methods of support for families in which at least one of the parents has an intellectual disability.
A short description about FIB.
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