Abitare Solidale
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Auser
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
1‐5 years
This project is carried on by volunteers, professionals, counsellors, psychologists from AUSER Association along with ARTEMISIA. Both associations cooperate with the social Welfare System of the partnering Communes and is supported by lawyers’ consultants too.
Artemisia
Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organisation
The ARTEMISIA social organization cooperates to the project by deploying and carrying on the following activities: communications, selection of candidates to house-sharing (including women who have been victims of violence), as well as support during the phases of new projects of co-habitation
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Assisted daily living, Independent living solutions, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering), Age friendly buildings, environments, and communities.
The following stakeholders are involved in the project:
• AUSER: voluntary association working with older people
• ARTEMISIA: voluntary association working to protect women and children who are victims of violence
• Municipality of Florence, Bagno a Ripoli, Scandicci, Sesto Fiorentino, Cascina
• Housing Agency of the Municipality of Florence (public authority)
• Private architecture offices providing retrofitting services at favorable prices (because of certain agreements with the public authorities) (private actors)
The ARTEMISIA Association collaborates to produce effective procedures, in the extent to give shelter and safety to women undergoing domestic violence. ARTEMISIA also supplies psychological support all along all steps of the habitation plan. ARTEMISIA social volunteers collaborate with Welfare Social operators and coordinate the profiles and the planning for possible beneficiaries.
The project has been tested for a year, in order to define and control the processes and identify possible difficulties. During this period, a number of 50 offers and requests have been looked over, 10 cohabitations were activated. The result shows the validity of the methods of selection of the candidates, the effectiveness of the cohabitation expressed both by “guests” and “hosts”. At the end of the experimentation we shered all the positive results with all the stakeholders and partner to increase the project.
for 1‐5 years
complementary (your solution is complementing existing solutions and compensating their weaknesses while not intending to substitute them)
There is just one possible crucial situation: a cohabitation -or more- might suddenly
interrupt because of any reason. It would then become critical to find an alternative
solution to such cases. Abitare Solidale makes a point to ward off, trying to solve
relational problems that may turn up even after months. Abitare Solidale is also
increasing the number of its franchisees and partners to spread a major offer of
house-sharing. The more Communes and individuals subscribe and support Abitare Solidale Project, the wider the choice of a solution.
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ufficio comunicazione e grafica
The team consists of: psychologists, legal advisors, communication specialists, counselors and social workers. The project benefits from the experience gained in the field by the volunteers.
We have two sections of coordination and management: the technical team made of the project manager, partner's representatives which has the task of manage the strategies and improve the project; the executive team (made of three project operators and one Welfare Service officer for each Comune) carries out all operational activities which are weekly scheduled. The Team also provides training for new volunteers.
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Older people living in apartments, which are too big or not adapted to their needs, who risk to lose their self-sufficiency and to be isolated from society. Older people’s relatives in need of new care solutions more adapted to their needs and their life style. Disadvantaged people at risk of poverty and in need of decent and affordable housing. These are mostly represented by families of migrants, unemployed people and students. Women who are victims of domestic violence in need of a temporary shelter to start a new life.
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Toscana
The project represents a solution to cope with the problem of isolation and social exclusion of older people.It allows older people to stay longer in their homes improving their active participation in society; improves older people’s independent living and self-determination;It represents a solution to the decreasing availability of informal care givers(women, family networks);It represents an alternative to retirement homes.which are not sustainable in a long-term perspective for structural and environmental reasons.
the project it is environment-friendly:it is based on the optimisation of the existing housing stock and it represents an alternative to retirement homes which are not sustainable on a long-term basis for structural and environmental reasons.
social inclusion and integration:the project facilitates the creation of interpersonal relationships and promotes the value of solidarity between generations as a way to actively participate to society and combat isolation.Moreover, the project shows the added value of volunteering by, and for, older people to active ageing, solidarity,active citizenship
The project helps people in need to find affordable accommodation allowing them to actively participate in society;offers an innovative solution to new causes of poverty and social exclusion:precarious jobs,migration, people not entitled to public protection schemes and/or to public care services.Through the idea of mutual aid, the project represents an alternative to the isolation and stigmatisation of people facing economical or personal difficulties.The project improves the independent living and self-determination of older people and to participate in a mutual aid activity based on solidar
Experience-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on your experiences with the target group), Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), External evaluation of impacts based on qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, etc.).
Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Activity report, Working method and 'theory of change'.
-development of welfare sistems based on mutual aid that increase the social partecipation and the active citizenship among disadvantaged.
-reinforce the partner's network for a broad and integrated partnership involving public authorities, private actors, volunteer organisations and paid staff both economically and professionally
-hand over the project in other areas in order to reach a recognition as a good practice of the Region of Tuscany and it's achivement in the social policy of the regional planning