The "Personal assistant of a disabled person" – 2023 edition, hereinafter referred to as the "Programme", aims to ensure the availability of personal assistance services, i.e. support in performing everyday activities and functioning in the social life of people with disabilities. Personal assistance services are a form of support financed under the previous editions of this Programme (i.e. 2019-2022) and the "Personal assistant of persons with disabilities" Programme – 2020-2022 edition.
The program provides support in performing everyday activities and functioning in social life:
1. children up to 16 years of age with a disability certificate, including indications: the need for permanent or long-term care or assistance of another person in connection with a significantly reduced ability to live independently and the need for permanent participation of the child's guardian in the process of treatment, rehabilitation and education on a daily basis, and
2. disabled persons with a disability certificate:
a. of a significant degree, or
b. moderately or
c. treated equally to the above, in accordance with Article 5 and Article 62 of the Act of 27 August 1997 on vocational and social rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons.
The programme is also intended to ensure:
1. improving the quality of life of people with disabilities, in particular by enabling them to live as independently as possible;
2. support for people with disabilities and provide assistance adequate to needs;
3. participation of persons with disabilities in social, cultural, entertainment or sporting events, etc.;
4. co-financing of local government units as part of the tasks carried out to support people with disabilities;
5. Increase assistant support for disabled pupils with special educational needs, also in other dimensions of life and social functioning.
In 2023, it is planned to provide services to a total of 63 residents of the city (including 41 with severe disabilities and 18 people with moderate disabilities and 4 children up to 16 years of age).
The program is financed under the Solidarity Fund and will be implemented in 2023, for which the city obtained PLN 1,048,374.36.
The implementation of the "Personal Assistant of a Disabled Person" Program is coordinated by the Municipal Social Welfare Center.
The services of an assistant will be commissioned to non-governmental organizations on the basis of the Act of 24 April 2003 on Public Benefit and Volunteer Work.