Attiva-Mente · Independent Living

Global Independent Living Atlas.

An international map centred on Centres for Independent Living and the ecosystem of networks, organisations and movements defending self-determination, peer support, personal assistance and community living.

Created by Attiva-Mente as an open, readable and expandable tool: a starting point for connecting experiences, making models visible and welcoming new suggestions.

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Centres for Independent Living

Independent Living context.

Centres for Independent Living are rooted in a clear vision: ensuring that disabled people have the concrete possibility to choose how to live, where to live and with whom to live, with the same rights and level of participation as everyone else.

For this freedom to be real, principles must become concrete conditions: support, accessibility, self-determination, personal assistance, peer support, legal protection, opportunities and full participation in the community.

Reading criteria for identifying a CIL

  • Disabled people-led: governance, priorities and services are shaped by people with lived experience.
  • Community-based and cross-disability: it works in the community, across impairments, and rejects segregating responses.
  • Focused on choice and control: it promotes personal assistance, peer support, advocacy and life outside institutions.
  • Intersectional: it considers gender, age, origin, income, sexuality, language barriers and other overlapping factors.

Concrete pillars

The items below list the pillars that need to be guaranteed so Independent Living can become a real, accessible and person-directed context.

Accessible information
Adequate income
Accessible health and social care
Accessible transport
Access to the environment
Technical aids and equipment
Accessible housing
Personal assistance
Inclusive education
Employment opportunities
Independent advocacy
Peer support
Supported decision making
Independent Living history and philosophy
Sexual and reproductive rights
Legal aid
Accessible digital technology
Support through life transitions

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