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National Target To Be Established for Persons with Disabilities
by the End of the Year 2002

 

1. Housing and Centers for Work and Activity

[present capacity] -> [goal]

(1) Group homes, welfare homes

5,000 persons -> 20,000 persons

(2) Sheltered workshops, welfare factories

40,000 persons -> 68,000 persons

(3) Specifications for all new public rental housing to be hereafter constructed shall consider deterioration in body functions.

(4) Efforts will be made to strengthen measures to assist non-authorized small workshops.

 

2. Support for Independence in Communities

(1) The establishment of a care and nurturing system for children with disabilities

  • Day care projects for children (persons) with severe motor and intellectual disabilities, etc.

    300 locations -> 1,300 locations

  • Functions of the main facilities for the care and nurture of children with disabilities in each prefecture and region will be strengthened.

(2) Promotion of the social rehabilitation of persons with mental disabilities

  • Facilities for training in daily living for persons with mental disabilities (care homes)

    1,500 persons -> 6,000 persons

  • Training program for adapting to community life for persons with mental disabilities

    3,500 persons -> 5,000 persons

  • Psychiatric day care centers

    370 locations -> 1,000 locations

(3) Community-supported projects for care and nurture of children with disabilities, rehabilitation of persons with mental disabilities, and comprehensive guidance and support services, will he implemented in two places per 300,000 persons.

(4) One comprehensive program which promotes participation of persons with disabilities in society will be implemented per 50, 000 persons.

 

3. The Improving of Care Services

(1) In-home Services

  • Home helpers

    Increase of 45,000 helpers

  • Short-term stay services(day and night care)

    1,000 persons -> 4,500 persons

  • Day care service

    500 locations -> 1,000 locations

(2) Residential Services

  • Nursing homes for persons with physical disabilities

    17,000 persons -> 25,000 persons

  • Rehabilitation facilities for persons with mental retardation

    85,000 persons -> 95,000 persons

 

4. Promotion of the Employment of Persons with Disabilities

The establishment of businesses employing persons with severe disabilities on the basis of the "Third Sector Method" will be promoted in each prefecture.

 

5. Promotion of a Barrier-Free Society

(1) About 130,000 kilometers of sidewalk three meters or more in width will be constructed by the beginning of the 21st century.

(2) The systematic construction of elevators, etc. will be ordered for: new railway stations and stations undergoing major renovations; existing stations which have vertical gaps of five meters or greater between the ground and the station; and existing stations with a ridership of 5,000 persons or more.

(3) All newly established government facilities which attend to people will be built barrier-free.

(4) Toilets and parking lots for persons with disabilities will be provided at all rest areas along expressways and "michi-no-eki."

(5) "Fax 110" for emergency assistance will be established at all prefectural police headquarters.


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The Government for Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities
— A SEVEN-YEAR NORMALIZATION STRATEGY —
Tentative Edition in English

Translated by
the Secretariat of the Headquarter
for Promoting the Welfare of Disabled Persons,
Prime Minister's Office

6-1, Nagatacho 1-chome,
Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, 100
JAPAN