Plan Comunitario de Carabanchel Alto

The Asc para el Desarrollo del Plan Comunitario de Carabanchel Alto is a non-profit organisation that for more than 25 years has been working with a participatory approach and community intervention to improve the quality of life of the neighbourhood. The work of the entity is divided into 3 areas which are synergistic between them. Employment and Social Services Area: It responds to the needs felt and expressed by the population that is in a situation of social vulnerability, fundamentally due to the loss of employment and with it the loss of wellbeing and human security caused by the lack of economic income, as well as the loss of personal, social, labour and technical capacities that allow them to develop as individuals in their own right. It offers: reception, improvement of employability, active job search, psychosocial care.
Education area: - Caixa Proinfancia Programme: A set of actions to promote the development of the skills of children, adolescents and their families to improve their social integration processes, Promote the development of children and adolescents in their family, school and social context, improve opportunities for children and young people, raise awareness and mobilise society in the eradication of child and youth poverty. - Day centres for children and adolescents: This prevention service is a social resource that offers socio-educational support to minors and their families who live in contexts of exclusion and who, due to personal, economic, work and social circumstances, do not have sufficient opportunities to ensure the correct development of the minors. - PAE /PROA: Programme of Accompaniment and School Support, in primary and secondary schools, to respond to the need to improve school success rates in these schools that educate students in situations of social disadvantage, belonging to families with few resources and possibilities to support the education of their children from the family environment and who require additional educational support and reinforcement to the activities they carry out during school hours. Pupils with learning problems and difficulties, who need additional space and time to consolidate their learning and who do not have these possibilities in the family home, would also be the target of this action.
AREA OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND HEALTH: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION 2.0: To reinforce the different community actions carried out by the organisation through the effective and efficient use of new technologies. DYNAMISATION OF COMMUNITY SPACES FOR HEALTH PROMOTION: - Carabanchel Alto Health Board: - Carabanchel Alto and District Health Asset Mapping: Participatory initiatives for ADVICE IN THE DESIGN OF COMMUNITY HEALTH PROCESSES:(Madrid Health SERMAS, Teaching Units, Schools of Nursing and Medicine) - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT "COMMUNITY SUPPORT AT THE END OF LIFE AND Bereavement" (Madrid Health) - .
Currently, more than 600 young people are assisted and the team is made up of 35 professionals from different disciplines, 11 volunteers and the Board of Directors made up of representatives from different services and associations of the territory.