ABOUT
Welcome to DPO Handicap, an organization dedicated to empowering persons with disabilities. Our mission is to provide support and resources to improve the lives of those with disabilities. We are committed to creating a world where every person has equal opportunities and access to resources to reach their full potential. Join us in our efforts to make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities.
OUR MISSION
REFORMING DISABILITY POLICY
The DPO, created in 2021, wishes to develop a new political conception of disability more ambitious, more coherent with the realities of our societies, and reconnecting a population of people with disabilities with the rest of the world.
We wish to reverse the separatism considered incurable between ordinary life and specialized institutions. We want to stop segregation.
We want to build the political and social conditions of the autonomous life of the people, far from the medico-social vision by associations managing places of segregation.
Located between Europe and american continent, it does independent work of monitoring, innovation and organization of an expected change, in light of its collaborations with abroad, disabled people who compose it and outside any political affiliation.
DPO has three missions:
1- monitor the policies deployed in the institutional, legislative and organisational spheres, the policies of private companies for persons with disabilities, and support in its actions, the principle of equality of common law, and policies for helping families.
2 - develop legislative, and social innovations by bringing together experiences and confronting visions of disability in the world.
3- coordinate and produce knowledge of disability policy and related issues internationally and make them available, as necessary resources, as part of a better awareness of our societies, and to organize a anti-ableist society guaranteeing the independent life of people.
HISTORY
"We are not born disabled, we become disabled by an environment that denies us."
In 2021, Capucine Lemaire created the observatory and began a first round of Europe of data and statistics. Since then, our COP Handicap analyses cross-cutting issues related to disability to make recommendations in all areas by 2030 in working groups. It is about monitoring, innovating and organizing an independent life for people with disabilities, influencing public policies based on the needs of the people concerned, but also companies and media in order to break the ancestral and imaginary valid/ invalid boundary.
April2021
Creation in France. DPO is OPH (french)
October
2021
Audition in the french Senate under the Social Security Bill (PLFSS)
February
2022
The OPH works with french Senator Rémi Cardon in the first part of the statistics of the handicap and then work entitled «School 2030» and whose objective is an experimentation of the recommended arrangements, after a current phase of observation.
summer
2022
summer
2022
In August 2022, the President of the OPH joined ENIL, a European collective of disability associations, which sits on the UN and the European Commission.
The OPH joined them in January 2023 as an NGO.
2023
March 7th
The United Nations is holding a hearing with the OPH President at the CRPD conference on humanitarian emergency risks, and we will give our recommendations before the next report on disability policy in France.
June
WHO invites the OPH to the debate to build effective tools to achieve the best health status of people with disabilities and create true inclusive governance.
July
the OPH now contributes to the work of the European Parliament for an inclusive future in Europe.
2023
2024
OPH becomes DPO. Given our international situation, we choose to change the name of the NGO and to communicate in English. We now work with people all over the world and are located between France (parent) and the American continent.
TEAM
direction
Chair
Director office
operations
Working group direction
Watch team
editorial
Direction of publications
strategy
Press relations team
International relations
Lobbyists