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Know your rights. Use your rights.
Act informed. Live a self-determined life.

Let us introduce ourselves!

The project strengthens people with disabilities in it, their rights to demand.A lot has changed in social law - including the introduction of the Federal Participation Act. Many of those affected and their relatives are not or only insufficiently aware of this.

We want to fill this knowledge gap. We inform people about their new Rights, we encourage them to use their Needs and to make full use of the legal framework for their participation.

Through awareness-raising campaigns, decision-makers at Cost units the reality of life for people with disabilities.

Also with Lawyers we would like to generate more interest in the problems of people with disabilities in the Legal system awaken.

We have rights!

Inclusion means participation. One part of the project informs people with disabilities and their relatives about their current rights. Through education and

Empowerment it empowers people to communicate their needs and make full use of the legal framework for their participation.

The project also offers Training courses, Group workshops and Information events on the premises of ZSL and with people with disabilities on site.

If necessary, referral to individual counseling, e.g. to the existing Advice offered by the ZSL, possible.

We are „in the know“!

Through various offers sensitized the project supports decision-makers at funding agencies in the interests of applicants.

It shows what their decisions mean for the Everyday life can mean for the individual. The decision-makers are given an understanding of the applicants' living environment and gain a vivid impression of the consequences their decision can have for people with disabilities.

We enforce the law!

Our long-term goal is to create a Network of competent lawyers who are committed to helping people with disabilities in proceedings, e.g. objection proceedings against funding bodies.

Free advice, such as independent participation advice, already exists to a certain extent. However, this can only provide advice in the first steps of the application process. At the latest when people with disabilities want to appeal against a decision, there is often no free advice available. inexpensive and barrier-free support. That has to change.

We have set ourselves the goal of raising awareness of the needs of people with disabilities among legal experts. The field of Social law is becoming increasingly important. We would like to Students arouse interest in it.

As soon as the network is established, it will support committed lawyers in their work through peer-to-peer exchange. support.

Our team

Ina Fischer (Project manager) is a trained office communications specialist and peer counselor for the interest group Selbstbestimmt Leben e.V. (ISL). She has a wide range of experience in the field of inclusion, not least due to her blindness as an expert in her own right. Up to and including 2017, she was part of the „Inclusion Erlangen - in town and country“ project team at Access GmbH. Following this, her work focused on the „Kommune Inklusiv“ project. Since May 2024, she has been responsible for „Alles was Recht ist“ at ZSL as project manager.

ina.fischer@zsl-erlangen.de
Phone: 09131 - 98783 50

Heike Herzog (Project coordination) is a sociologist with a background in project coordination. She worked for 12 years as a project coordinator at the multi-generational house in Fürth. Before that, she worked for many years as a freelancer on projects with young people on the topics of exclusion, racism and the promotion of democracy. She has been associated with ZSL for many years through personal contacts. She has been working on the „Alles was Recht ist“ project since June 2024.

She is currently trying to learn German sign language.

heike.herzog@zsl-erlangen.de
Phone: 09131 - 98783 51

Jing Schreiber (Administration) has a degree in business administration and is responsible for the financial management of projects. She has been working in project controlling since July 2021. She has been working on the „Everything that is right“ project since May 2024.