Following the ENSA General Assembly 2024 IVASS has been elected as new coordinator of this working group. They will work together with Rotterdam city and jointly lead the older adults and disability working groups. We thank the Conseil Départemental du Val de Marne – France for their previous very good coordination from the years 2008.
ENSA disability working group coordinors IVASS Valencia Generalitat Valenciana IVASS (Valencia Institute of Social Services),
María José Rico Llorca, Directora General Instituto Valenciano de Servicios Sociales
Maria Sorzano Castellon, project manager IVASS
The Valencian Institute of Social Services (IVASS) is a public organization attached to the Vice Presidency and Regional Ministry for Equality and Inclusive Policies (Valencian Regional Government). It provides assistance and executes actions in the field of disability, social services and social action. IVASS’s mission is to provide the necessary supports and social attention to people with different needs in order to fulfill their integral development into society. IVASS works to consolidate a Quality Service that, in a participatory way, responds to the needs and demands of people who are part of the organization or request their services. In addition, it protects and guardianship persons with judicially modified capacity.
IVASS comprises 6 daycare centers, 10 occupational centers, 11 day and night residences and 5 sheltered homes where its 820 professionals dedicate their efforts to the attention and care of 1,200people with social care needs. Finally, it provides them the necessary support for their integral development, in a participatory manner and through a quality service.
Conseil Départemental du Val-de-Marne, France
The general coordinator of the Disability working group was the Conseil Départemental du Val-de-Marne. Pierre Joseph, Head of department for Innovation prospective Projects (Direction de l’Autonomie) and Miljana Dejanovich, Project officer for integration and European partnerships (Direction de l’Autonomie), were responsible for the coordination of this working group.
The Department of Val de Marne is a department in the Central Northern part of France. Sharing its boundaries with Paris, it is defined as the closest South East suburb of the French capital. It occupies an area of 245 sq.kms, and is one of the most densely populated areas in France (50009 inh./km2). The General Councils are the legal bodies of the departments. There are 95 general councils in France. In Val-de- Marne, the General Council was set up in 1964.
The major responsibility of the Department is social policies. More than half of the General Council budget is dedicated to social action. The main department jurisdictions are:
The Department of services for elderly and disabled people develops and implements departmental policy directed to the elderly and the disabled. This public policy is part of a transversal and partnership approach.
The Department missions are based on:
The Department of services for elderly and disabled people carries out actions targeted towards the users, the institutions and provides medical and social services for the elderly and the disabled.
The Conseil Départemental du Val-de-Marne, represented by the Department of services for the elderly and the disabled, is coordinator of the ENSA disability network since the end of 2006. In the framework of ENSA, two meetings a year are held in order to exchange best practices, to have a better understanding of the different social systems, to be applied to EU-programmes by developing common projects.
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