Goals

Specific goals

• Promote citizens’ social inclusion, in a multisectoral and integrated manner, through initiatives to be carried out in partnership, enabling it to contribute toward increased employability;

• Bring about measures that foster the active inclusion of the handicapped and the disabled, as well as the empowerment of institutions;

• Foster the creation of circuits for the production, dissemination and marketing of local and/or regional products, in order to promote the area and employability;

• Promote the development of instruments that empower social and economic institutions, by fostering the implementation of shared services that enabling greater rationality of resources and management efficiency;

• Foster the development of facilitating instruments geared to people’s mobility and access to local utility services, to reduce isolation and social exclusion.

Intervention

The CLDS-3G Viana Consigo (Viana With You) project develops its activities around three major points of intervention, to wit:

1 - Employment, training and qualification;

2 - Family and parental intervention, to prevent child poverty;

3 - Empowering the community and institutions.

Target Group

The outlook for CLDS-3G Viana Consigo calls for intervention in an overall, systemic and contextual dimension: individual, family and community. Indeed, the project’s target population comprises the following:

• The unemployed and local employers;

• Young people in transition to active life or at risk of dropping out of school;

• Families;

• Civil society, institutions, associations, cooperatives, volunteer organizations and other non-profit organizations.

Team

• 1 Technical Coordinator

• 1 Management Officer

• 2 Psychologists

• 1 Socio-cultural Animator

Goals

• Contribute toward increasing employability, through greater information on and awareness-raising to existing resources in the community, while fighting high levels of unemployment;

• Achieve a coordinated fight against extreme poverty, especially in the elderly and in children;

• Prevent instances of social exclusion, namely associated with vulnerable households comprising children, elderly and disabled persons, by turning to active measures for including these people into society;

• Promote a culture of intergenerational communication, in order to (re)build links and establish dynamics in the daily lives of the local populace marked by aging.

Intervention

The CLDS+ program integrates 3 points of intervention encompassing a set of activities:

• Employment, training and qualification (including fostering the inclusion of disabled/handicapped persons);

• Family and Parental Intervention, to prevent child poverty;

• Empowering the Community and Institutions.

Recipients

CLDS+ calls for intervention in an overall systemic and contextual (individual, family and community) dimension. Indeed, the project’s target population comprises the following:

• Unemployed people, local employers, youth population – basic, secondary (and higher) education;

• Multi-challenged and socially vulnerable families, children (from grades 1 to 9) and the elderly;

• Civil society, institutions, associations (cooperatives, volunteer organizations, non-profit associations).

This program, which comprises a social policy instrument centered on current social problems, seeks to be part of a movement for change and development, by bringing about measures compatible with the points of intervention, as well as with mandatory initiatives considered under the decree governing it (Decree no. 135-C/2013, dated March 28th).

Team

• 1 Technical coordinator

• 1 Management Officer

• 2 Psychologists

• 1 Socio-cultural Animator

Intervention

For such a purpose, the project essentially emphasizes on the innovation factor, which is embodied in both the intervention methodologies and the project’s recipients.

• Conduct a district-wide information dissemination campaign (topics: gender violence, gender equality; dating violence);

• Streamline peer educator youth scholarships based on the peer education methodology and the Theater of the Oppressed;

• Prepare and disseminate a manual for streamlining peer educator youth scholarships;

• Streamline a meeting: theme-based seminar and workshop(s) of professionals involved in intervention and empowerment of victims for sharing best intervention practices.

Recipients

To pursue the outlined initiatives, the project is geared to different target populations: civil society, young university student population, professionals contacting/intervening with direct and indirect victims of domestic violence.

Goals

Prevent, reduce risks and minimize damage from a problem use of psychoactive substances.

Specific goals

• Improve the quality of the basic conditions of life;

• Promote health, by increasingly adopting safe behaviors;

• Facilitate access to information/training on the safest drug uses;

• Promote the reduction of risk behaviors;

• Lessen the damage caused by drug use and perceived by the families of drug users;

• Improve the quality of socio-affective relations between drug users and their informal support network;

• Enhance user self-esteem;

• Promote concerted action between drug users and the socio-health-care network;

• Provide for referral and the efficient use of resources/formal support organizations.

Intervention

Given the outlined goals and bearing in mind the reduction of risks and minimizing of damage, the "Estrada com Horizontes" (Road with Horizons) Street Team provides a set of services, encompassed within different modes of intervention:

• Biopsychosocial support

• Family intervention (upon request and in agreement with the individual);

• Distribution of foodstuffs and clothing;

• Distribution of aseptic consumption material;

• Low-Threshold Methadone Program;

• Referral to the network’s socio-health-care structures.

The patient monitoring process also comprises three stages: reception, needs assessment and intervention.

Reception

• Analysis and assessment of requests;

Assessing Needs

• Assessment centered on physical condition;

• Assessment centered on social and environmental factors;

• Assessing/negotiating a commitment to change;

Intervention

• Development of a socio-educational project;

• Intervention geared toward obtaining or enhancing the ability to obtain goods and resources;

• Intervention focused on using community resources;

• Psychological counseling;

• Skills training;

• Education and awareness-raising activities;

• Distribution of aseptic consumption material and information material;

• Administering methadone and other therapies;

• Monitoring contact;

• Intervention integrated with other Institutions or Professionals.

Team

• 1 Coordinator

• 1 Senior Social Service Officer

• 1 Psychologist

• 3 Nurses