Regards croisés sur la bientraitance en établissement Erasmus Project

Project Title

Regards croisés sur la bientraitance en établissement

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Ethics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue); Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Well-treatment is at the heart of everyday life for people with disabilities but also at the practices of social work professionals and their initial and continuous training. Even though, Medias, professionals’ magazines and institutions often talk about this subject, it needs an in-depth study, by country, based upon recommendations, legal framework, national and international texts and tools. This can allow its implementation and a change of practices and positioning. In everyday life, the actors (accompanied people, professionals and students) are not always able to identify what really this notion of well-treatment involves.
As partnerships for students and professionals’ training, the home for adults with cerebral palsy “La Baraudelle” located in Attigny, France and the regional institute for social work of Champagne-Ardenne “IRTS CA” located in Reims, France, shared this analysis and wished to work together for a better comprehension of this notion.
A compared European approach was more obvious and represents a real opportunity to make those 3 actors work together. Their involvement was essential because in daily life, each of them experiments the well-treatment and so had an expert assessment.
Discovering other functioning and realities can allow to question or re-question about our expectations, knowledge and practices and develop them. All of this, with a transnational approach allowing reinforcing our European identity.

The aims were:
– to share European’s analysis concerning well-treatment;
– to identity the implementation of professionals’’ practices;
– to identify possible development of practices and positioning;
– to realise a book of good practices and recommendations;
– to reinforce the knowledge about Europe and the feeling of European citizenship.
In the 3 countries involved in the project (Portugal, France and Slovenia) a team composed of a specialised institution and social work school was formed to allow a real commitment between the 3 actors mentioned before. The main goal was to put people with disabilities in a central place. We wanted to work with them and not “for” them or to speak instead of them.

So, the 6 institutions were a part of the project:
– the home for adults with cerebral palsy “La Baraudelle” located in Attigny, France and the regional institute for social work of Champagne-Ardenne “IRTS CA” located in Reims, France;
– the integrated centre for the support of disabled people “CIAD” and the superior institute in social work of Porto “ISSSP”, located in Porto, Portugal;
– the university of social work “Univerza v Ljubljana” and the NGO “ALTRA” (community mental health services and programs for adults), located in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Each working work, for each country, 2 people with disabilities (intellectual and/or motor disabilities), 3 professionals (one of whom for the special needs of people with disabilities), 2 students and the leaders of each institutions were a part of the different work, which represent 27 people in total.
The number of participants in these 3 categories, for the host country, increased during the working week, to finally get more than 150 people. The financial support by the Regional Council allows including 8 more people for the French team during the two trips to Europe.
During the transnational meeting, we came up with a common architecture of the project. The different topics and also the aims of each week had been defined.

The activities took place during 4 weeks in our 3 countries (2 of them in France) through training sequences, workshops, discovery of the different institutions, academic conferences, meetings with politics and cultural discovery.
The results and impacts of the project for the participants are numerous:
– meetings, previously unseen involvement and work between the 3 categories of actors (especially the active participation of people with disabilities);
– European comparative look about well-treatment: laws, references, practices;
– development of communicative and linguistic skills;
– better knowledge of Europe: its countries and cultures;
– creation and/or strengthening a network of partners;
– adaptation of training content;
– transfer of good practices;
– positioning as European actors.

The initial aims were achieved and even exceeded our expectations and also the values of social work were reaffirmed and translated into new commitments on a daily basis.
The realisation of a “book” proposing an European comparative look will end this 36 months’ project but not the collaboration implemented by the different institutions involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 99178,91 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut Régional du Travail Social de Champagne Ardenne & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto
• Foyer La Baraudelle – Association d’Aide aux Infirmes moteurs Cérébraux de la Région Champagne-Ardenne
• DRUSTVO ALTRA-ODBOR ZA NOVOSTI V DUSEVNEM ZDRAVJU
• Cooperativa de Ensino Superior de Serviço Social