Transcript ICF Medical Care and Therapy

Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
The Information and Cooperation Forum (ICF)
Presents:
Cross-border asylum network
Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers in
Europe
materials for a better practice
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
ICF: NGOs from Germany, Austria,
Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic,
Slovakia and Slovenia
Targets:
 improvement of reception conditions in the Member States of the
European Union
 cooperation, qualification, lobbying
Issues:
 accommodation
 social benefits (including withdrawal and Dublin II cases)
 medical care and therapy
 access to labour and education / training
 social work and social counselling
 freedom of movement
 participation of refugees
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
The EU Council Directive 2003/9/EC of 27 January
2003 on Minimum Standards of Reception
Conditons for Asylum Seekers
 the implementation: harmonisation or
downgrading?
 why improvement of reception conditions?
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1. Medical Care and Therapy*
 towards an accessible and human health care
for asylum seekers
 legal foundations and instruments
 the EU Council Directive 2003/9/EC on
access to health care
*Under the ICF lead agency of
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1.2. Problems and Gaps – a Call for
Action
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information, language and understanding
employment and education
residence and accommodation
living conditions – housing and insecurity
traumatisation and vulnerable groups
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1.3. Information, Language, Culture
 language barriers
 cultural specific expressions
 lacking data and knowledge
 recommendations
– translation and mediation services
– qualification courses for asylum seekers for linguistic and social
orientation
– initial health examinations and information on health system
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1.4. Employment and Education
 overcoming isolation and
forced inactiveness
 access to labour market instead of
dependence on social benefits
 recommendations
– strengthen participatory activities
of asylum seekers
– promotion of employment in the health sector
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1.5. Living in a Camp: Housing and
Insecurity
 centralised centres – forced communities isolated
from society
 incapacitation
 health problems as a result of accommodation
 recommendations
– private housing
– access to social and legal assistance
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
1.6. Traumatisation and Vulnerable
Groups
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from experienced violence to insecurity
needs and treatment for vulnerable groups
living conditions as barriers to a stable life
lack of knowledge and lack of therapy
 recommendations
– services for diagnosis and treatment of traumatisation
– standards of legal recognition of traumatised people
Cross-border cooperation is our way to take responsibility for refugees
THANK YOU!
For further information
please contact
liliane danso
[email protected]