Servicios Sociales de Castilla y León

Autonomous administrative body, belonging to the Department of Family and Equal Opportunities of the Junta de Castilla y León. It is the Regional Public Authority responsible for the design, planning and management of social services in Castile and Leon.

Competencies:

• Adoption of measures for the implementation of social services policies;
• Regional planning and its development and implementation;
• Creation, organization, maintenance and management of programs, services, facilities and resources;
• Promotion, social dissemination and communication of social services and promotion of citizen participation carried out by associations, volunteers and other forms of mutual aid in relation to social services.

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Asprodes Plena inclusión Castilla y León

Association created, more than 50 years ago, by a group of families who decided to undertake a collective work of vindication and, later, of management of centres and services.

Asprodes is made up of families, users, volunteers, partners, clients and professionals who work day by day to improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Currently, Asprodes manages different day centres, a special education school, a special employment centre, housing and residences in Salamanca and its province, supporting more than 1000 people with disabilities and their families.

Mission

It consists of contributing, from its ethical commitment, with support and opportunities, so that each person with an intellectual or developmental disability and their family can develop his/her quality of life project, as well as promoting his/her inclusion as a full citizen in a fair and supportive society.

Vision

A reliable and innovative organization, which is committed to improving the lives of people and the environments in which they live, promoting equality, inclusion and social cohesion.

Supports provided:

• 92% of the people supported from the social area have an individual plan that conveys the support that the person needs throughout his life.
• We continue to be committed to training for employment (116 people in training processes in the form of itineraries and 52 people with dual training contracts) with a priority strategy and the creation of opportunities for labour insertion (229 people hired in the EEC and 10 new people have accessed ordinary employment).
• There is a sustained impulse in the creation of housing in community formats (198 people are already developing their life project in community housing with different formats depending on their support needs and personal decisions).
• The Servicio de Vida independiente (Independent Living Service) is consolidating its growth. Throughout 2018 it has increased the number of people supported by 50%. Data on the impact of the service on people's quality of life reveal positive scores in the development of inclusive and self-determined life projects.
• Attention from SEPAP (Personal Autonomy Promotion Services) models is growing, doubling the number of people supported from this more flexible and à la carte option.

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Instituto Universitario de Integración en la Comunidad, INICO.

Faculty of Psychology. University of Salamanca

It is an institute made up of professionals who carry out training, research and consultancy activities in the field of disability, aimed at promoting, facilitating and improving the quality of life and self-determination of socially disadvantaged people in different contexts and throughout their entire life cycle.

The aim of the University Institute for Integration in the Community is to carry out research, specialised training and consultancy activities aimed at promoting, facilitating and improving the living conditions of people at a social disadvantage in different contexts and throughout their life cycle: people with physical, mental and sensory disabilities, as well as people with chronic illnesses, mental illness, minorities and marginalised populations.

Its objectives are as follows:

1. To significantly increase and consolidate different lines of cutting-edge research at national and international level related to people with disabilities and other socially disadvantaged groups, in different contexts: work, education, social and health.
2. To consolidate specialized postgraduate training for researchers and professionals in the field of disability, as well as to facilitate the development of new training plans adapted to the changing needs of services.
3. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration in research and specialized training activities together with Research Center Departments and Institutes from different countries of the European Union and Latin America.
4. To provide coverage and response to the needs and demands for advice, both from public institutions and non-governmental organizations.
5. To advise and support the development of specific assistance activities and innovative support programmes, at individual and family level when the singularity of the case so requires.

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Comunidade Intermunicipal do Douro

The Douro Intermunicipal Community is an association of multi-purpose municipalities, a legal person governed by public law of an associative nature and territorial scope, established since 15 January 2009, covering 19 municipalities.

The CIMDOURO, as an association of municipalities, has, in its nature, the function of coordinating intermunicipal projects.

Although recently created (2009), he has extensive experience in coordinating intermunicipal projects, as the technicians who compose it are from the Municipal Associations and Technical Support Cabinets, structures whose matrix was to support or execute intermunicipal projects , with more than 20 years of experience in this type of projects and in the most diverse areas.

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Universidad de Aveiro | CINTESIS@RISE

The University of Aveiro (UA) is a public foundation under private law whose mission is to contribute to and develop graduate and postgraduate education and training, research and cooperation with society.

The UA’s mission is to create, share and apply knowledge, involving the whole community through teaching, research and cooperation with the surrounding environment, in order to make a clear difference for individuals and society.

CINTESIS@RISE

CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde) is a decentralized, multidisciplinary research unit comprising over 500 researchers, whose governance and organizational model was designed to provide a highly performing and efficient environment for health sciences and health care research.

Our team belongs to the Ageing C group of CINTESIS (TL1), a multidisciplinary group who focus their study on two areas: a) Social & Behavioural Gerontology (i.e. ageing process, policy and services), and b) Clinical Gerontology & Geriatrics (for example, frailty, mental health and dementia, family care, use of new technology for an independent life and the well-being of the elderly).

https://www.ua.pt