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HELPING DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE Belgian contribution. Grundtvig Learning Partnership – DISCOVER 23-27. March 2011 Belgium. CPAS. Public Centre of Social Help Action . 1. Management - administration. Council of Social Action P ermanent committee Sp e cial committees.
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HELPING DISADVANTAGED PEOPLEBelgian contribution Grundtvig Learning Partnership – DISCOVER 23-27. March 2011Belgium
CPAS Public Centre of Social Help Action
1. Management - administration • Council of SocialAction • Permanent committee • Specialcommittees • 2. Actors of CPAS • President • Secretary • Treasurer • Staff : 2.093 personnes CPAS of Charleroi
3. Missions of CPAS • information • psycho-social, moral andeducational help, guidance • financial help via social integrationincome • management of services withsocial, curative • orpreventivecharacteristics • proposal of jobs
Unemployed • Homeless • Immigrants • Elderly people • Disabled • Everyoneiseligible to access CPAS 4. Whobenefitsfrom CPAS ?
Housing service • Youth service • Debtsmediation • Service of psychosocial help • Home help and care • Neighbourhood actions • Local activities • Social insertion 5. Whatis « CPAS »
A. Social help B. Home help and care C. Welcome and housing for elderly people D. Mentalhealth E. Neighbourhood action • F. Socialeconomy The different types of actions of CPAS
Social unit • « Passage 45 » • Social urgency unit • Housing unit • Youth unit • Energy unit • Debtsmediation • Legal unit • First necessitygoods unit A. Social help
First Mission = • Humandignity • Integrationincome on 01/06/2009:
a) « passage 45 » • 4 Socialshops • Solidarityeconomyspace • « Carrefour-Project » - Service of social integration (SIS)Workshops
b) Social urgency unit c) Housing unit • d) Youth unit (family house in Monceau) • 15 places for kids aged 6 yearsoldwith • familyproblems • e) Energy unit • 2.727 heatinggrants in 2010 (+ 89%) • 200 loan files • f) Debts médiation • + 47% files since 2006 • g) Legal unit • h) Grants for goods of absolutenecessity
« Sélection-Tutorat » (Art 60 - loi de 1976) • Full time jobs(38h/week) right to « unemployed » status • (depends on worker’sage ) • activitysectors: • technical services, cleaning, cooking, help to people, paperwork... • Where? • CPASand city services (homes, citizenspaces, neighbourhood actions,…) • Cooperatives • Non profit organizations
B. Home Help and care 1. Medical care at home 2. Family help 3. Mealsat home 4. Cleaning ladies (service)
C. Welcome for elderly people • 9 residences D. Mental health • Specificservices: children, teenagers andadultswithpsychological, psychiatric and relationshipproblems
E. Neighbourhood actions • Three citoyen spaces(Porte Ouest, • Dampremy, La Docherie)
F. Social economy unit • Example: Trans'form • target group: adultswithlittleschooling andwithoutworkingexperience • activities:collection, mending and selling of usedelectricalappliances
statistics 1. Evolution of social help in Charleroi Source: CPAS DE CHARLEROI – Note de politique générale 2011