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Foundation for Drezdenko providing services to dependent people
Published on 19 June 2020
Poland
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About this good practice
The Foundation for Drezdenko was established as an initiative of an organization dealing with job activation (the Social Integration Center). The Center's beneficiaries created the Foundation and their jobs to work for the local community. They provide care services and also cooperate in various local initiatives.
The customers/beneficiaries are dependent persons (mostly seniors) who aren't able to function without support and help from social care institutions. Many of them do not deal with everyday matters, such as shopping, finding medicines or a specialist doctor etc.
The Foundation also cooperates with “Seniors’ Support Club” in Drezdenko.
Support the dependent inhabitants of Drezdenko and nearby areas. Developing social services and creating new places of work. The carers visit the seniors and also go to the areas nearby Drezdenko by car the Foundation has (some services are payable to seniors, and some aren't - they are carried out at the request of state/local government entities). The most important is that this is an activity deeply implemented in the local community and is also part of the cooperation network.
The stakeholders are the Center of Social Integration in Drezdenko local authorities and the Social Welfare Centre, which assigns tasks to employees of the Foundation. In this way, the Foundation is filling the gaps in the social care system.
The beneficiaries are the dependant persons (mostly seniors with poor health and lacking social connections).
The customers/beneficiaries are dependent persons (mostly seniors) who aren't able to function without support and help from social care institutions. Many of them do not deal with everyday matters, such as shopping, finding medicines or a specialist doctor etc.
The Foundation also cooperates with “Seniors’ Support Club” in Drezdenko.
Support the dependent inhabitants of Drezdenko and nearby areas. Developing social services and creating new places of work. The carers visit the seniors and also go to the areas nearby Drezdenko by car the Foundation has (some services are payable to seniors, and some aren't - they are carried out at the request of state/local government entities). The most important is that this is an activity deeply implemented in the local community and is also part of the cooperation network.
The stakeholders are the Center of Social Integration in Drezdenko local authorities and the Social Welfare Centre, which assigns tasks to employees of the Foundation. In this way, the Foundation is filling the gaps in the social care system.
The beneficiaries are the dependant persons (mostly seniors with poor health and lacking social connections).
Resources needed
- A car for the carers visiting the homes of the dependent persons. - An office.
- Medical equipment (medical rehabilitation equipment). - The founders. 5 workers. Volunteers. - 30 000 EUR, the money gained by the Foundation to create 5 workplaces (from Regional Operational Program - Lubuskie 2020
- Medical equipment (medical rehabilitation equipment). - The founders. 5 workers. Volunteers. - 30 000 EUR, the money gained by the Foundation to create 5 workplaces (from Regional Operational Program - Lubuskie 2020
Evidence of success
a response to the needs of the local community – job activation and social and care services; obtaining funding to create 5 workplaces and social and job activation of persons having problems with finding jobs (30000 EUR); close cooperation with local institutions and organizations; conducting various activities and services (care, transport, cleaning and delivery services); ability to provide services also for medical facilities (hospital); combining social economy and care services.
Potential for learning or transfer
Close cooperation of various local institutions and organizations is a good practice. The Foundation is part of a coherent local network and complements the shortcomings in the field of social services. It is using the potential of long-term unemployed persons to work with dependents. It realises a job and social activation due to fulfilling important social tasks. The Foundation's acquisition of orders from a social assistance centre enables profitability (of the Foundation) and the implementation of its functions using local resources. The combination of caring activities with the Senior Support Center makes the offer comprehensive. It can be addressed to various groups of senior recipients (those requiring specialist care and those who need social contacts above all). The activity is not highly profitable, but local institutions and organizations recognize the need to provide assignments for the Foundation so that it can survive because it fulfils locally essential tasks.
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Organisation
Foundation for Drezdenko
Poland
Lubuskie
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