Empowering and Capacity Building for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Needs, Hindrances and Promotion on the Learning and Developing of New Skills - Daniel Alves

The “Same Same – A Capacity Building and Empowerment e-mentorship Program for People with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD)” is a Program with the objective to test the reliability and effectiveness of a Training and Empowerment Program for Mentors and to provide people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead their peers, with or without IDD.An ethnographic research and report was carried out, with a focus group created to answer and investigate these problematics and questions, a survey of the specific needs and support that individuals with IDD need to develop new skills, knowledge and access new job opportunities. The session included a total of eight participants, considering four distinct profiles, and was divided into five phases.This article describes the field work done, the data analysis and the results of this study in Portugal.A text by Daniel Alves llustrated by Lídia Belchior.https://theanthro.art/empowering-and-capacity-building-for-individuals-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-needs-hindrances-and-promotion-on-the-learning-and-developing-of-new-skills/