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Supporting Disadvantaged Communities: The CPAS Charleroi Model of Social Assistance

The CPAS (Public Center for Social Help Action) in Charleroi, Belgium, offers comprehensive support to disadvantaged groups, including the unemployed, homeless, immigrants, the elderly, and disabled individuals. Through various services such as financial aid, psychosocial support, housing assistance, and job placement, CPAS strives to promote social integration and dignity for all. Their initiatives encompass housing units, youth services, debt mediation, and neighborhood actions, demonstrating a commitment to fostering a caring community in Charleroi.

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Supporting Disadvantaged Communities: The CPAS Charleroi Model of Social Assistance

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  1. HELPING DISADVANTAGED PEOPLEBelgian contribution Grundtvig Learning Partnership – DISCOVER 23-27. March 2011Belgium

  2. CPAS Public Centre of Social Help Action

  3. 1. Management - administration • Council of SocialAction • Permanent committee • Specialcommittees • 2. Actors of CPAS • President • Secretary • Treasurer • Staff : 2.093 personnes CPAS of Charleroi

  4. 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

  5. Unemployed • Homeless • Immigrants • Elderly people • Disabled • Everyoneiseligible to access CPAS 4. Whobenefitsfrom CPAS ?

  6. Housing service • Youth service • Debtsmediation • Service of psychosocial help • Home help and care • Neighbourhood actions • Local activities • Social insertion 5. Whatis « CPAS »

  7. 6. Financial resources of Charleroi CPAS

  8. 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

  9. Social unit • « Passage 45 » • Social urgency unit • Housing unit • Youth unit • Energy unit • Debtsmediation • Legal unit • First necessitygoods unit A. Social help

  10. First Mission = • Humandignity • Integrationincome on 01/06/2009:

  11. a) « passage 45 » • 4 Socialshops • Solidarityeconomyspace • « Carrefour-Project » - Service of social integration (SIS)Workshops

  12. 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

  13. « 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

  14. B. Home Help and care 1. Medical care at home 2. Family help 3. Mealsat home 4. Cleaning ladies (service)

  15. C. Welcome for elderly people • 9 residences D. Mental health • Specificservices: children, teenagers andadultswithpsychological, psychiatric and relationshipproblems

  16. E. Neighbourhood actions • Three citoyen spaces(Porte Ouest, • Dampremy, La Docherie)

  17. F. Social economy unit • Example: Trans'form • target group: adultswithlittleschooling andwithoutworkingexperience • activities:collection, mending and selling of usedelectricalappliances

  18. statistics 1. Evolution of social help in Charleroi Source: CPAS DE CHARLEROI – Note de politique générale 2011

  19. Source: CPAS DE CHARLEROI – Note de politique générale 2011

  20. Source: CPAS DE CHARLEROI – Note de politique générale 2011

  21. Thanks a lot !

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