Naturally Together: Youth finding their roots through bio-construction
prevention and support in situations associated with drug promoting intervention strategies that favour culture and encourage contact with nature.
About You
About You
First Name
Florencia
Last Name
Lopez
Twitter URL
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Fundacion El Emilio
Organization Website
Organization Country
Argentina, X, Cosquín
Country where this project is creating social impact
Argentina, X, Cosquín
Is your organization a
Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for less than a year
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Drug use, teenage pregnancy, human trafficking and dropouts have been a considerable increase, as indicated by all the surveys in our country. Specialists believe that social, emotional, intellectual and physical learning are very important to children development. We believe that addressing the issues of sexual and reproductive vulnerability, specifically focusing on the problem of human trafficking, work preventively all associated topics, such as drug use, teenage pregnancy and school dropout, promoting contact with the nature and cultural valorization.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
These are complex issues, so any preventative work in relation to it must consider the multiple factors associated with it and know the characteristics of the population with which they work. The identification and conservation of the mountain native species encourage young people to engage and have fun in a healthy way. This activity improves their self-esteem, educates and improves the general attitude towards life. Since 2009 we are carrying identification, cultivation and uses of plants from the mountains workshops to city youth in Cosquín. We continue to focus on situations of sexual and reproductive vulnerability, addressing the problem of trafficking, associated with drug use.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We work in secondary schools Lyceum Pte Roque Saenz Pena and Sarmiento, the club Universitario de Cosquín and various neighborhood centers so that the cabinet is referring to private practice. It plans training in "green solutions" to work with adolescents in bio-construction: installation of solar thermal, solar screens, making adobe bricks and plastic bricks, etc..
In turn we wil prolong the work of guidance, counseling and prevention in the context of conditions associated with drugs, with a specialized cabinet favoring each identified vulnerability so it can may be assisted and restrained.
Following the training to detect and prompt response in each case we can convey a clear message to the community on risk and social vulnerability. The importance of each family, to reflect and develop criteria for the conditions associated with drugs, it can protect them in their decisions and enables them to operate effectively against SAAD ( Sistem of autonomy and attention to dependency) favoring the detection, containment and, if necessary, referral. Accompanying the process ww will design booklets with accurate information and standards of conduct against major situations identified since 2009 in Cosquín.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
your success or growth?
La Casita de Quinquela, is a Socio-Community Space for children, adolescents and families from Punilla, it belongs to the Ministry of Children, Adolescents and Family in the Cordoba province, it delivers workshops , training and recreation courses.
The main difference is that our project aims to articulate between each of the institutions involved, strengthening each other. Also training in green jobs, that are not covered within their framework.
We believe we can generate new tools for integration, enabling to reassess the cultural roots of our people, strengthening the chances of inclusion with innovative and original proposals while making available a cabinet to support them.
Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.
Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
Prevention & support in situations associated w/ drug promoting intervention strategies that favor culture & encourage contact w/ nature
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
Responses from an integrative perspective of the natural, cultural and spiritual considering people as a whole
Social Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since 2009 the Area of Prevention Fundaciòn El Emilio, made interventions of teenagers empowerment to about 1000 youth in the city of Cosquín in Schools Pte Sarmiento, Lyceum Roque Saenz Pena, University Club Cosquín and assistance through scholarships and training a group of about 20 mothers and fathers under 21. Workshops on violence, STDs, family planning and sexual and reproductive education, prevention of addictions, phytocosmetics, identification of medicinal plants from the mountains of Cordoba, cultivation and propagation of ornamental plants were conducted. It also provides lectures and training in addictions and creating a cabinet for the assistance of emergency cases and coordination with various organizations in which we participate.
In the area of assistance we have worked with over 60 families in the cities of Cosquín, San Marcos Sierras and Cruz del Eje
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Changing lifestyles positively, as a protective factor for youth in the community, promoting cultural revaluation through to training in bio construction, application of ecological and sustainable technologies and uses of natural resources responsibly in schools and community centers .
Shaping social networks integrated to allow project sustainability beyond the completion of its current funding.
Create a specialized cabinet to contain emerging situations and refer them to an appropriate therapeutic process.
Analyze and categorize the specific program participant population, according to socio-demographic indicators: sex, age, education, social status
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
That the 2 nd cycle of secondary schools knows natural construction techniques
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
train teachers to strengthen the activities
Task 2
provide weekly workshops in schools
Task 3
take students once a month to experiential workshops on natural building
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
That the 3 public schools in the city could include natural construction activities in their annual curricula.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Invite the delegates and representatives of the institutions to participate in experiential activities.
Task 2
Present activities in conjunction with school officials in the ministry of education
Task 3
develop a booklet with 3 types of construction
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
El Emilio is a Natural Therapy Center, established in 2005 in the form of Foundation. The organization was created after 12 years of work of its founding members in the field of addictions in different institutions with Therapeutic Community models of the main Argentine cities. In order to avoid difficulties observed in models of traditional approach, there is the project of Emilio, in addressing the first cases we realized that without a "chemical vest" people would find a meaning in their lives!
If this model becomes sustainable and accessible, many drug users may have a better quality of life also favoring alternatives to preventive drug use..
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Tell us about your partnerships
Since 2008 we are working in workshops to prevent the consumption of legal and illegal drugs, our proposal aims to promote natural and cultural aspects, and it is within this framework we perform in the breeding and plant propagation, production of phyto-cosmetic products with secondary public schools and sports promotion in clubs and neighborhood centers in the city.
We worked on strengthening containment and moms and dads to teenagers, to train, promote their integration at school or work and support them in caring for their children.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
A multidisciplinary team formed with an integrative approach that communes with the idea of using natural medicine, avoiding psychotropic drugs, both in the specific health, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, as in corporate communication, graphic design and in the training, trainers, social, natural builders, workshop for physical activities, arts, yoga and meditation
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