About Bedrocks

The main aim of Bedrocks project is to improve social inclusion of individuals with ASD and their families by training the parents how to become a mentor to their children and how to advocate their rights and needs and become active citizens.

It is backed by scientific studies that individuals with ASD have specific needs. Parents are often lost, unequipped with knowledge, victims of misjudgments. This leads to isolation and social inclusion. They are usually not politically active, so their specific needs are often not recognized and included in the legislative public systems, society. With our project we will define specific needs and priorities that are present at all partners involved and opportunities that may be available through active citizenship - how to inform, mobilize, influence.

With Bedrocks project we will:

• establish Bedrocks Clubs for parents,
• website with forum and blogs, through which parents will be able to exchange their experiences,
• prepare the Bedrocks guidebook for parents,
• prepare the Bedrocks toolkit for active citizenship and
• publish a true stories booklet »It is worth fighting for«.

The results of the project should contribute to a raised level of competence of trainers of parents, parents as mentors to their children and increased level of parents active citizenship in our societies.

Partners in Bedrocks project are:

• Center društvo za avtizem (Slovenia)
• Autistik (Czech Republic)
• The Irish Society for Autism (Ireland)
• Autizmus Alapítvány (Hungary)