WORKSHOPS SESSION :
Thursday 07 March
14:30 - 18:00
among the participants, working specially in
frontline, facing extreme poverty
combined with serious mental health disorders, denial of
fundamental rights, abandonment and loneliness,
conditions that the long stay on the street made
even more complex and difficult to resolve.
Learning that passes through:
deepening of ideas: the centrality of the person, dignity,
- assessment practices: positive experiences and less
barriers, difficulties and solutions
- implement innovative projects: complexity and multidisciplinary
The focus in the workshops will be concentrated - through concrete
presentation of cases - especially
on homeless people with mental health disturbs and how is
working approached and method of intervention in emergency &
meeting, in support & accompanying,
in prevention for avoid exclusion process, especially for more
All received contributions will be
published in the
on the SMES
But in order to promote and facilitate free intervention and
will propose to
a limited number of redactors,
to present -
Entrenched rough sleepers: what
aptitudes are required
to facilitate approach to persons and
what resources required in order to insure
access of homeless to health and social services
What is the sense of freedom and compulsory intervention, respect and solidarity
concerning people on the street suffering of
mental diseases and absolute deprivation?
civic co-responsibilities and interdisciplinary
What results can be achieved? And what obstacles must be overcome
in this personalised pathway ?
GROUP B. Emergency shelter and temporary housing:
How to prevent that emergency condition becoming in chronic situation ?
In almost all European metropolis
on the winter municipalities launched an emergency plan.
Who and how accompanying measures to prevent that at the end of emergency program the people find himself again back on the street ?
Moving from homelessness to home – how can one guarantee a sense of belonging?
and in sustainable way?
How avoid the risk of segregation (ghetto) and discrimination
to promote deinstitutionalization at all levels,
social: shelters and emergency centres and at
health level : psychiatric institutions ?
Homelessness prevention : at the streets (no two nights in a row on the street...) at the shelters and at home regarding especial risk people:
migrants European & extra EU, and without documents,
elderly people abandoned in their solitude and women and children.
In what manner "clinics solidarity 'can become
the important preventive services at social and
health levels, whether in connection with social
and health public services ?
GROUP E. Dignity & Well-being: how will be possible working together (mental health and social services of public and private Organisations) for a very difficult situation, when the solution seems very IMPOSSIBLE?
cf. "Dignity & Well-being project"
What it's similar and different in European Metropolis concerning this specific situations ?
Very important are the exchanges, to implement innovative practices based on the concepts of respect of suffering and abandoned people, of sharing responsibility in co-working and to formulate concrete proposals.
the poverty is not one
gesture of charity, it is
one act of justice , an act
of protection of a
fundamental human right ,
the right to dignity and a
life decent . Both that
remains the poverty , it
there is no true freedom."
In some countries, there is
not a famine of bread,
people suffer instead of
terrible loneliness, despair
terrible, terrible hatred,
because he feels unwanted,
desperate and despairing ...
He needs someone who
understands and respects.
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