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Confederación AUTISMO ESPAÑA

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Children Citizenship and Governance Development Disabled Persons Education Family Governance Human Rights Information International Law Justice Minority Rights Social Development Women/gender Equality Financing for Development: Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Human rights of women Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Policy advice Women and health Population: Population structure Public Administration: Governance and Public Administration Public Service and Management Innovation Social Development: Aging Disabled persons Employment Information and Communications Technologies Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Statistics: Demographic and social surveys Development indicators Disability Statistics Methodological publications in statistics Official statistics, principles and practices Services Statistics Social Statistics and Social Monitoring Sustainable Development: Education Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making International law
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Spain
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	The Confederation Autismo España, best known as Autismo España is a State confederation that clusters and represents organizations of the third sector, that, initiated by relatives of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), focuse on social action to provide adapted assistance and specialized services to people with ASD and their families. The mission of Autismo España is to support persons with ASD and their families while promoting and advocating for the effective exercise of their rights. Its main objective is to foster their quality of life and ensure them equal opportunities. Autismo España aligns itself with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Optional Protocol, and the EU Charter for Persons with Autism. Its aim is thus to reflect the following principles in its activities: acknowledgment of the own identity and dignity of persons with ASD, recognition of persons with ASD as citizens with rights and obligations, right to social inclusion and the right to equal opportunities. Autismo España has set the following priorities: a) To improve the political impact of advocacy on the effective exercise of the rights of persons with ASD and their families, by promoting and defending them from a regulatory and administrative perspective, while raising awareness on this group of interest. b) To move forward in the convergence, cohesion and commitment of the confederated organizations of Autismo España, and more broadly of the whole autism community, in order to achieve a better representation of persons with ASD and their family at the regional and State level. c) To enhance investigation and push the dissemination of information on people with ASD forward, in order to generate a better knowledge of ASD and to work towards advancing the organizational development of the confederated organizations, by providing them with quality models and best practice guidelines. d) To establish an organizational structure that would ensure the sustainability of Autismo España on a mid-term basis, and to develop the identity and strategic direction of the confederation. In line with the aforementioned priorities, Autismo España developed the following Decalogue of core actions: 1) To advance social awareness, knowledge and training of professionals working in key areas for people with ASD and their families such as in education, health, social services, justice, security, etc. 2) To further the universal accessibility to information, assets and services, especially from a cognitive accessibility perspective. 3) To ensure the early diagnosis of ASD cases in the different settings related to early childhood development, as well as the access to an assessment of the diagnosis by a specialist, and an early interdisciplinary treatment and attention. 4) To foster an individual, comprehensive and specialized assistance adapted to people with ASD and their family in the different steps of their life. 5) To promote an inclusive and specialized education of quality for students with ASD at the different stages of their life, as well as a comprehensive and specialized attention to their health, including their mental health. 6) To facilitate the access of persons with ASD to employment and to enable them to benefit from the highest level of independence when reaching adult life. 7) To enhance the access, civil participation and social inclusion of persons with ASD. 8) To guarantee the legal protection and effective exercise of the rights of persons with ASD and their family. 9) To promote investigation, development and innovation in order to expand the understanding and knowledge on ASD, for a better informed scientific dissemination of the topic to the society and to the relevant services related to it. 10) To facilitate the equal access of persons with ASD in the whole Spanish territory to resources, assets and specialized services.
Year established:	1994
Year of registration:	1994
Organizational structure:	Observing a democratic decision making approach, the Confederation Autismo España (known as Autismo España), is composed of two governing bodies: On the one hand, the General Assembly, which is formed by all member organizations of Autismo España, is the supreme body of governance and of representation of the Confederation. The General Assembly is in charge of the following prerogatives: to approve the management and administration carried out by the Executive Board, to review and approve the Annual Accounts, the Activity Report and the Action Plan of the Confederation. It also fixes ordinary and extraordinary contributions, appoints the members of the Executive Board when a renewal is required and when an Extraordinary General Assembly has not been convened to this extent, and it ratifies the organizational structure of the Technical Team of the Confederation. Furthermore, the General Assembly approves the appointment, removal, contracting and firing of the persons that are at a management position. It also approves the governance and development of regulatory documents in adequacy with the Statutes of the Confederation and has competency on further prerogatives that are not of sole competency of the Extraordinary Assembly. On the other hand, the Executive Board, is the steering and managing board of the Confederation, as it holds the majority of authority and attributions in the management, administration, and legal and extrajudicial representation of the organization, following the guidelines and dispositions set by the General Assembly. The Executive Board is composed of a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 7 members, elected between and by the members of the Confederation that occupy the following positions: president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer. The remaining members of the Executive Board, with a maximum of three, possess the status of spokespersons. Furthermore, the Commissions or Working Groups can be created by the Executive Board, and must be composed of a least three of its members. Specialized advisors can complete the Commissions on a consultative status basis. At the moment, the Executive Board has created a “Comision de Calidad de Vida” aka Commission of Life Quality, a “Comision de Empleo” aka Commission of Employment and a “Grupo de trabajo de envejecimiento” aka Working Group on Ageing. At a technical level, the organizational structure of Autismo España is formed by salaried employees as follows: a Director, a Head of Administration, an Administrative Officer, a Head of Human Rights and Advocacy, a Head of Technical Support, two Investigation Officers, a Head of Communication, a Head of Project and a Project Officer.
Number and type of members:	As of today, Autismo España represents and consists of 75 organizations spread across 15 Autonomous Communities and of the two Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as detailed below: - Andalusia: 1 federation, 9 associations and 1 foundation - Aragon: 2 associations - Canary Islands: 1 association - Castilla la Mancha: 1 federation and 1 association - Castille and Leon: 1 federation, 9 associations and 1 foundation - Catalonia: 3 federations, 4 associations, 1 specialized center of rehabilitation, 4 foundations and 1 resource center - Ceuta: 1 association - Community of Madrid: 1 federation, 8 associations, 1 foundation and the Spanish Center of Autism - Community of Navarre: 1 association - Community of Valencia: 1 association, 1 foundation - Extremadura: 1 association - Galicia: 1 federation, 7 associations, 2 Centers of Specialized education and 2 foundations - La Rioja: 1 association - Melilla: 1 association - Basque Country: 2 association - Principality of Asturias: 1 association - Región of Murcia: 2 associations In order to join Autismo España as a member, applicants have to be: - Federations sharing the same principles and objectives as Autismo España. - Foundations that offer services to persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families. - Associations of persons with ASD and associations of families of persons with ASD that provide assistance to persons with this disorder. Furthermore, these organizations have to meet the following requirements: a) Their social purpose must broadly be to defend, assist and protect persons with ASD. b) They have to be legally listed in the relevant register of their area of work. c) They should not have been related to any legal prohibitions in order to be granted the quality of beneficiary of subventions, as stated in the dispositions of the Law 38/2003 of the 17th of November, “General de Subvenciones”. d) They must fully comply with their tax obligations towards any public administration and towards the Social Security according to the current rules. e) They have to expressly adhere to the purposes specified in the statutes of Autismo España, as well as its mission, vision and values as stated in its Strategic Plan, in force at any time. f) The governing bodies of the entity must mainly be composed of parents, guardians, and up to second degree relatives of persons with ASD. Organizations exclusively composed of professional or that do not meet the aforementioned requirements are not eligible. In case that organizations are composed of both parents and professionals (known as mixed organizations), they are eligible as long as they meet the aforementioned requirements. The Confederation counts three types of members: a) Distinctive member organization b) Bonded member organization c) Honorary member. In total Autismo España gathers through its member organizations an approximate of 10 000 persons with ASD, their relatives and professionals related to this spectrum.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Our Confederation is member of the Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad (CERMI), Organización Munidal del Autismo and Autisme Europe
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Grants from Governments Fees for education and training services Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations Donations and grants from domestic sources

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