Background of Montenegrin Coalition of Organizations of People with Disabilities
Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro is a non-governmental organization, registered on October 22, 2001. It gathers youth with all kinds of disabilities (cross-disability approach) as well as people without disabilities willing to participate in activities of the future co-existence and integration. It is a non-profit organization, founded firstly to provide psychosocial support, solving numerous and complex problems that youth with disabilities encounter daily, as well as creation of educational conditions for College and University opportunities. In our work we are guided by a model based on human rights.
Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro in cooperation with the Coalition of organizations of persons with disabilities (DPOs) of Montenegro, as part of a global collaborative project "International promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities" (Disability Rights Promotion International - DRPI), and with the support of York University, Toronto, (Canada) and the Regional Centre for South Eastern Europe, implemented the project of monitoring the human rights of people with disabilities in Montenegro - "Monitoring the human rights of persons with disabilities in Montenegro", aimed at building the capacity of people with disabilities and organizing persons with disabilities in the field of monitoring and compliance of human rights of persons with disabilities.
The coalition of organizations of persons with disabilities who participated in this project, in addition to the Association of Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro are: the Association of Youth with Disabilities of Kotor, Association of Youth with Disabilities of Niksic, Association of "PLEGIJE" of Niksic, Association of the Blind people of Niksic, Savnik and Pluzine, Association of the Blind people for Bar and Ulcinj, Association of Paraplegics of Montenegro, Association of Paraplegic of Bar, Association of Paraplegics of Bijelo Polje and Mojkovac, Association of Paraplegic of Pljevlja, the Association of Paraplegics of Montenegro-Rozaje, Association of Paraplegic of Budva, Association of Paraplegic of Cetinje, the Association of Paraplegics of Berane, Association of persons with physical disabilities ofMontenegro, the Association for support for persons with disabilities of Bijelo Polje, Association of Persons with Disabilities of Berane, the Organization of Multiple Sclerosis of Berane, the Organization of Multiple Sclerosis of Bijelo Polje, Alliance of Organization of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Montenegro, Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Cetinje, Alliance of the Association of Parents of Children and Youth with disabilities "Our initiative" (associate member), the Association of handicapped persons "Heart" Mojkovac, NGO of persons with disabilities "Steps" and the Centre for Anti-discrimination "EQUISTA" (associate member).