minister of Family and Social Services Derya Yanık on Sunday said that figure of specialized institutions in field of autism set to increase across Türkiye on Celebration of World Autism Awareness Day on April 2 each year.
she also announced Second National Action Plan for individual with Autism Spectrum Disorders” planned to be implemented until 2030 upon opening of Sincan Autism Day Care Center for Rehabilitation and Family Counseling in The capital is Ankara.
Yannick, during her speech, indicated that the opening of Center comes in Line with the protocol Occurred with Sinkan municipality said the center confirmed how It is important to work Together to overcome obstacles.
explain it one of The most important project that distinguishes the AKP from others is the concept of the social Municipality, Yanık said that social The commune was drawn up forward since then of The days of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB).
Stressing that Türkiye has become a model country for the world with wise policies in social work in the last “We’re not the only ones saying this,” Yannick said in two decades. This photo shows in Our meetings with our counterparts from all over world Visit our country and our ministry and visit various countries. At this point, examples of good practices in our country in social services and social Help is being followed with interest.”
the minister also Notice that they are behaving with a social policy of They put family in the center of all services. In addition, they indicated out that they have developed services for support people with Persons with disabilities and their relatives by protecting the family’s integrity.
“to share the responsibility of Our families to some extent, welcome us disabled Citizens in Our institution that we opened today so that it takes time for themselves during the day and participate in social life with various activities. We launch autism day care and rehabilitation and family Counseling Center in Ankara is specialized in autism and only for individual with Diagnosis of autism and their families, which includes a handicraft workshop, sports category of activity, category of educational activity, music and educational games class,” Yannick explained.
Adding that they aim for disabled individuals to become self-confident, productive, and independent individuals, as Yannick pointed out, like ministry, they have developed Effective policies to increase capacity of livelihood of services such as health, social services and family support that hold on to understanding of The ministry’s approach was called “a better life.” for everyone.”
I hope that the action plan will be implemented between 2023 and 2030 with the full support of the responsible and related institutions for the benefit of all individuals with Autism, their families and the country, Yannick said, “I will like to give You one more good news here. As shown in Our business plan, our organizations are specialized in Autism, for whom we offer both day and boarding services, is set to rise.”
the minister also added that one Such a center for rehabilitation and family Counseling for individual with autism set To open in Kayseri on Tuesday.
World Autism Awareness Day was celebrated on Monday in Other provinces across Turkey, including Çorum, where families walked from Gezi Street to Kadış Parish Square, as well in Vocational School of Special Education in Kirklareli County, where students flew red balloons to celebrate the occasion.
