An app for refugees arriving in Europe

An app for refugees arriving in Europe

RefAid

Refugee Aid App is an application for migrants and refugees who arrive in Europe to enable them to identify the services they are eligible for and to locate them on a map.

On the services side, human aid and social service NGOs can manage and update their service catalogue, depending on needs and on urgency, through the application’s website. Metges Sense Fronteres, Càritas or Save the Children are some of the international NGOs that are collaborating with the app.

One of the app’s outstanding functionalities is that it safeguards privacy, since in these cases migrants and refugees are often afraid of being returned to the countries of origin if they are identified by the authorities. The application is available for Android and IOs in the United States, Turkey, Greece, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Malta.

Educational Centre for New Opportunities

Educational Centre for New Opportunities

Fundació El Llindar

A project to guide, accompany and support the transition of young people into adult life, their return to the formal educational system and to increase their employability to improve their chances of finding employment.

It proposes unique and customised plans and approaches to mixed scenarios that combine training and work with the assistance of other agents, particularly in companies that provide real-life working environments. The project is designed to help to build up the life, training and professional outlook of young people and adolescents through subjective accompaniment, personalised education and accompaniment spaces and moments. It received the Blanquerna Award as an education proposal committed to generating an ongoing improvement in education.

Housing and accompaniment services for the disabled

Housing and accompaniment services for the disabled

Fundació Amadip Esment

Individual housing for people with intellectual disability who jointly define their own support programme depending on their own needs, preferences and the life stage, with the help of professional services and each person’s the own informal support network. A reference professional coordinates and supervises each case.

IPS methodology for the job placement of young people with mental diseases

IPS methodology for the job placement of young people with mental diseases

Fundació Joia

A ground-breaking job placement methodology specialised in helping people with mental health difficulties, preventing chronicity in these people, turning access to the job market an active part of the recovery, thus increasing the job insertion rate.

This methodology has been imported from United States by the Institut Universitari Avedis Donabedian with the support of the Government of Catalonia. It has been implemented in different European cities, and the Fundació Joia was selected by the Government of Catalonia to lead the deployment of this methodology in Barcelona. IPS applied to the job placement services of the Fundació Joia is based on 3 main axes: the Community, the Health and Social Agents and the Business Fabric. The IPS methodology has yielded exponential improvements in the Fundació Joia’s job placement results.

Fundació Joia

Radars, risk situation prevention network for the elderly

Radars, risk situation prevention network for the elderly

Ajuntament de Barcelona

Photo: Ajuntament de Barcelona

Radar is a community action prevention network intended to detect and prevent risk situations affecting elderly people and to palliate the negative effects of unwanted loneliness, with the assistance of the immediate setting.

This initiative saw the light in the neighbourhood of en Grassot-Gràcia Nova, in an environment involving a growing number of elderly people at risk of isolation. However, it is also driven by the desire of the Social Services to combine their own action capacity with the active participation of the social organisations, services, residents and the community at large to face up to the situation by means of a preventive approach. The project’s good results have led it to become a city-wide project, with presence in all districts and now operational in 55 neighbourhoods.

Ajuntament de Barcelona

Èpica i Singular (Epic and Unique), a new employment experience for young people at risk

Èpica i Singular (Epic and Unique), a new employment experience for young people at risk

La Fura dels Baus, Ajuntament de Badalona, FLC

Foto: La Fura dels Baus

A project to help young employment-seekers at risk to learn and hone professional skills and competencies. All the participants will develop a stage set design and artistic project with the help of La Fura dels Baus and other professionals, in a highly attractive and different way, including the learning of audiovisual and construction techniques related to the performing arts.

Promoted by La Fura dels Baus, through its Èpica Foundation, the Fundació Laboral de la Construcció – Catalunya (FLC) and the Institut Municipal de la Promoció de l’Ocupació [Municipal Institute for the Promotion of Employment] (IMPO) of the City Council of Badalona, and with the support of the Employment Service of the Government of Catalonia in the framework of the Garantia Juvenil [Juvenile Guarantee] programmes. The project also includes guidance and assessment in job-hunting, as well as contracts of employment with companies for practical experience or recruitment, and offers a set of resources to facilitate the implementation of business and self-employment projects.

The relational-linking model, an innovative model of social action

The relational-linking model, an innovative model of social action

Castell-Platja d’Aro Town Council

Foto: Ajuntament de Castell-Platja d’Aro

For several years the Castell-Platja d’Aro Town Council has applied a model, the so called relational-linking model, in its all social education programs. The model, the theoretical basis of it have been defined in recent decades, fosters a relationship between educator and student, between professional and user, and between professionals, which favors proximity and creation of links, and increases the confidence capital created by the fact of “being” rather than “doing” with the person who requests services from the municipality. The model focuses the professionals’ attention on the person and on his/her trajectory of inclusion and prioritizes the creation of l networks among professionals.

The model has been recently validated though a research project called Human Value whose results, published in March 2018, demonstrated that the model helps to improve people’s quality of life and also serves as a basis to consolidate all supporting services offered by the organization to the citizens.