[NPO AYA] Providing opportunities for social participation for children receiving medical care and children with disabilities – Presenting recommendations
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Press release: December 27, 2023
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Providing opportunities for social participation for children in medical care and children with disabilities – Presentation of recommendations
*Representative director of NPO AYA makes recommendations regarding key points of the current system, comparisons with overseas, issues in Japan, and the ideal state for children with medical care and children with disabilities*
A contribution by Yuki Nakagawa, representative director of the specified non-profit organization AYA (Chuo-ku, Tokyo), was published in Policy makers lab Journal.
Published in issue 4 (December 2023). Regarding children under medical care and children with disabilities, we discussed the main points of the current system, compared it with other countries, organized issues in Japan, and proposed the ideal system.
background
In Japan, there is an issue that there is insufficient support for children in medical care [*1] and children with disabilities. In order to meet the needs of these children, it is essential to strengthen the medical system and make it barrier-free, but the reality is that efforts are not enough. In particular, although there are support measures based on laws such as the Medical Care Child Support Act and the Act to Eliminate Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, the issue is that their actual effects are limited. Children and their families face many difficulties in their daily lives, making it difficult for them to participate in society.
*1: Children under medical care are children who require special medical care on a daily basis, and the number of children is approximately 20,000.
Content
The contribution explains the main points regarding the four current laws concerning children in medical care: the “Medical Care Child Support Act,” “Child Welfare Act,” “Barrier-Free Act,” and “Act to Eliminate Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities.” He also introduced the support system in the United States with specific examples and compared it with the current situation in Japan. Based on his experience at a non-profit organization, he discussed the issue in Japan of low recognition of children with disabilities and children under medical care and the difficulty of participating in society, and proposed the ideal barrier-free environment. . As a sequel, we plan to make policy recommendations in the next issue of the same journal. Magazine
Policy makers lab Journal No. 4 (December 2023) P.88-100
URL:
https://policymakerslab.gr.jp/wp-content/themes/policymakers/assets/pdf/vol4_2023-12-all.pdf
Policy makers
The lab is a place for private companies and bureaucrats who want to change the world for the better to learn and discuss in order to create a collection of policy ideas that are not bound by existing frameworks through mutual knowledge sharing and discussion toward policy planning.・This is a voluntary organization in Japan that carries out practical activities. We will produce policy planning researchers from the private sector who do not specialize in policy planning in administrative agencies, and will develop the “Japan Survival Strategy” that is necessary from a medium- to long-term perspective in order for Japan to realize a sustainable society and economy in the future. We are working with the aim of formulating the following.
Author introduction
* Yuki Nakagawa * 2009
Graduated from Kyoto University School of Medicine. Emergency department specialist, surgical specialist, JSPO-certified sports doctor, medical association-certified industrial physician, travel medicine association-certified physician, JDLA
G test/E qualification. After working at the gastrointestinal surgery and critical care centers at Mitsui Memorial Hospital and Yokohama Rosai Hospital, he became a helicopter pilot and practiced medical care on remote islands. While conducting various activities, we will establish an NPO in January 2022.
Launched AYA, incorporated it in June 2023, and assumed the position of representative director.
[Current activities]
●NPO AYA Representative Director
●Vitaars Co., Ltd. CEO Assistant / International Business Department / JICA New Coronavirus Infection
Expert on project to strengthen intensive care capacity using remote technology during epidemics
●M3 Co., Ltd. Patient Support Business Division Advisor
●Hosoya Dialysis Clinic Part-time Doctor
●Fujinomachi Clinic Part-time doctor
●Industrial physicians (approximately 10 companies including IT companies, service industries, and machine factories)
●IHL; Healthcare Leadership Study Group management members
About AYA, a specified non-profit organization
Representative Director: Yuki Nakagawa
Address: 6-5 Nihonbashi Kabutocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
URL: https://aya-npo.org
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We are AYA
provides a place for children who are battling illness, living with a disability, or in need of medical care to expand their worldview through encounters and interactions with sports, art, and culture. I hope that the encounters I have had because of my illness will add color to children’s lives and give them the passion and courage to take on their next challenge.
*AYA’s MISSION*
“We provide opportunities for children to expand their worldview through sports, art, and culture.”
Children take the first step into a new world that they thought was difficult until now.
AYA’s mission is to support them.
*AYA’s VALUE*
“Keep your children positive and the people around them happy too” By taking the first step toward an adventure, children feel positive that anything is possible if they try.
Children’s positive feelings make those around them happy.
AYA envisions a world where the “circle of happiness” spreads throughout society.
*Four thoughts behind “AYA”*
Ayako: The name of the girl who inspired the establishment of AYA Action to Your Adventure: Take the first step to your adventure! Love (Ai) x Courage (Yuki) = Challenge for tomorrow (Asu):
Let’s take on the challenge of “tomorrow” with the “love” of our families and supporters and our own “courage”!
Aya: Let’s live a rich and colorful life!