A Tenant (Lokator) - Connecting those in need of everyday care

1. Our focus is on...

Civic Engagement

We started in...
Poland

as
Entepreneurs with the support from Social Welfare Centre

The problem that we are tackling

• Dependent individuals can experience lack of sense of safety, loneliness and difficulties in normal functioning, isolation and social exclusion, limited mobility, hostility to change, sense of burdening one’s family, feeling of being useless, unhealthy habits (e.g. lack of proper hygiene)
• Individuals looking for housing can experience lack of safe shelter, difficult financial situation, lack of sense of safety, health and life risks (inhabiting structurally dangerous areas), violence, social exclusion
• Members of dependant’s family can experience weakening of family’s care functions due to work-related migrations and inter-generational conflicts, decreasing number of individuals capable of providing proper care, high costs of full time care
• Social welfare centers – issues with providing help to all in need, insufficient funding, high costs of full time care, lack of reliable, systemic solutions, insufficient assistance support, difficulties with reaching dependants with social welfare, informative and prophylactic information, negative stereotypes regarding dependants, low social engagement of elderly and homeless populations, incurred hopelessness and entitlement of the dependants, social dysfunctions, lack of sufficient number of public housing units and shelters

Our way is through a new...
Approach/ Measure

Our innovative solution

The project provides individuals in need of housing (due to domestic violence, homelessness, etc.) to move in with individuals living alone and in need of care. In exchange for housing the tenants would help with everyday care. A well-trained team of professionals knowledgeable in working with both groups is a crucial part of a successful implementation of the innovation. Among others it would consist of :

• Issues specialist, who would plan and coordinate, recruit, collaborate with specialists
• Integration specialist, who would coordinate the work of dependants’ caregivers, help handle any issues, or conflicts between the sides, communicate with dependants’ families, gather and analyze data and documents pertaining to the dependants
• Psychologist, who would facilitate psychological evaluations of the potential candidates and, if needed, provide psychological support for the participants and the rest of the team
• Social worker, who would research data bases, select and inform potential participants, identify their needs, monitor well being of participants at their location no less than once a month and produce notes from these visits
• Caregiver working at the residence of the dependent individual, who would take care of the individual, help with house upkeep, monitor the relationship between project participants and report any issues to the integration specialist

Our activity radius is...
local

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