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Program of Support to the Homeless
Services of Support to the Homeless
Since 2001 "CLIMAX" has planned and operates an integrated program of support t the homeless and other high danger groups. The Program tries to confront all the needs of the homeless through an intergrated scientific approach that reinforces their individual efforts to ameliorate the conditions of their lives and their gradual reintegration. Within the framework of the Program of Support to the Homeless, "CLIMAX" operates the Center of Suport to the Homeless and the Hospice of Short-Term Accomodation for the Homeless.
Center of Support to the Homeless
The Center of Support to the Homeless operates as a first line "stamping ground" for our fellow citizens who live in the streets of Athens, every day from 09:00 to 21:00, offering open activities to all interested.
Services:
- medical - psychiatric care, consultative
- relaxation and personal hygiene (spaces for bath, shave, laundry)
- processing of social matters and providence (escort to hospitals and services, support for ID issue, allowance, pension, etc.)
- meals twice a week, nutrition supplements daily
- training on health education
- accomodation and care of homeless people on a 24h basis in days of heat of frost
- intervention and support of persons or families of high danger (indigent, refugees, immigrants, victims of domestic violence, etc.)
Hospice for Short-Term Accomodation
The Hospice for Short-Term Accommodation shares the same building with the Center of Support to the Homeless, Constantinoupoleos str. 30, at Gazi. The aim of this Hospice is to be an intermediary stage in the life of the beneficiary that will allow him to val his possibilities for his social reintegration.
Among other services, the Hospice provides:
- Residence
- Daily nutrition of the beneficiaries
- Opportunities for reintegration in the working environment
- Medical and psychiatric services
- Processing of social matters and providence
- Formalities for a complete rehabilitation (finding a stable accomodation, forwarding to the work market)
- Follow-up
Education
Information - Awareness
The Program provides education to health professionals and volunteers on issues concerning social exclusion approaches to resolve lack of accommodation, methodology of street work, etc.
There is a continuous information - awareness of the public opinion through events, campaigns, interviews in the Media, etc., about the lack of housing, de-stigmatization of the homeless and the possibility of their reintegration in social fabric.
Paper Recycling Workshop
One of the main objectives of the Program is to cultivate perspectives, through the psycho-social mobilization, for the integration of the Homeless in the work market. Through the Social Cooperative of the 3rd Sector of Psychic Health of Attica "Climax plus", CLIMAX operates a Social Economy Workshop with activities concerning the paper collection and resale for recycling, where the beneficiaries of the Program are occupied. The income from this paper resale supports financially the Homeless aiming at their gradual auto thus greatly improving their standard of living.
Street-work
Group of Street Intervention
The Group of Street Intervention keeps working in the street (Street-work) in Athens and Piraeus, approaching people who live outside the household, or are in some danger. The members of the Group inform the Program Services and register the Homeless and their problems. They offer first aid, medical advice and essential items.
The Program of Support to the Homeless of "CLIMAX" is part of the broader program of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, "Unity of Intervention for Persons with Psychological Disturbances due to Social Causes", materialized by "CLIMAX".
However, the major part of the Program is based on the voluntary work and the sponsorships of sensitized citizens and companies.
Program of Support to the Homeless
In her activities against social exclusion, "CLIMAX" deals actively, during this last decade, with the problem of "living outside the household", materializing a complete program within which professionals of health care and social sciences provide specialized services to our homeless fellow-citizens. The program includes research, prevention, awareness, street-work, meeting basic needs and services for psycho-social reinforcement, occupational rehabilitation and reintegration of the homeless in the social fabric.
CLIMAX is a member of FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organizations working with the Homeless). In 2005, CLIMAX carried out a research on the psycho-social ptofile of the Homeless and on the conditions of their living in the streets. The results of the research, as well as worldwide experience, show that the problems of psychological health concern, to a very high degree, not only the reasons of loss of the household but also the specific difficulties for the rehabilitation and reintegration of the Homeless. The Hospice of Accommodation for the Homeless of "CLIMAX" is the only one, to this day, to offer accommodation for psychiatric cases.
Homeless in Greece
The phenomenon of the Homeless in Greece is relatively recent, in comparison with other European countries. However, the growth rate of the phenomenon tends to equalize that of other European countries.
In Greece, the non recognition of the Homeless as a special social category results in a lack of definition and designation of the category and of the proper phenomenon as well as in a lack of an organized plan of prevention and rehabilitation.
According to the European Typology for the designation of the Homeless (Feantsa/Ethos 2009) the phenomenon of the lack of a household includes the situation of people living outdoors, those living in an uncertain housing, obliged to continuously move to insufficient situations of housing and those obliged to live in a household which is inadequate for housing according to commonly accepted standards.
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