SSF has specialized activities in serving disadvantaged populations such as:
o Group workshops around the social and political participation of immigrant women.
o Legal counselling services, workshops and awareness sessions and legal issues specialist care in Aliens, welcome and integration process, combating racism, discrimination, prevention and combat gender violence, inside schools, hosting units, refugee centres, public administration, companies and others.
o Supports lifelong learning and career paths for migrants by tailored counselling and recognition of prior learning to improve skills, employability and mobility.
o Design and implementation of different professional tools for unemployed people, companies and social actors.
• Training of trainers in several areas and for different groups.
• Research in different social, political and industrial areas for population at risk of social exclusion (disadvantaged people).
• Design and implementation of different professional tools. The organization has three professional social researches developed in Spain and America Latin released in many countries.
We are experts in the prior assessment and all the integration process of special situation of our direct beneficiaries, developing custom itineraries and with measurable objectives.
The beneficiaries of these projects:
Children and young people (students) inside refugees welcome centres and hosting units.
Women and men (people in risk of social exclusion).
Immigrant population and their network partner family
Population at risk of social exclusion inside and outside refugees welcome centres and hosting units.
Colleges and Institutes of secondary education (Schools) and vocational training
Hosting Units and refugee centres staff
Heads of orientation, psychologists, teachers, tutors, directors of the centres, principals, social workers, counsellors, etc.
Associations of immigrants
Associations of women victims of gender violence
Neighbourhoods associations
Social Services and charity organizations
Public social care services to women with problems of violence of gender
European institutions and bodies active in the field of education
European institutions and bodies active in the field of migration.
Companies
Within its International Projects Department, since 2014, SSF shows experience of cooperation and implementation European projects as coordinator (LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT – ERASMUS + - KA2 - 2014-1-ES01-KA204-004980) A consortium of seven partners from Spain, Norway, Greece, France, Cyprus and Austria, with relevant know-how and expertise.
Since 2010 develop different professional projects of support and accompaniment of social and labour insertion/integration in Spain to people with social, legal, and professional integration difficulties (people is risk of social exclusion). We have developed this service for the welcome and assistance to a big number of people and with good results (qualitative and quantitative).
Among these:
INTEGRATION EN RED project (funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the community of Madrid, years 2011,2012 and 2013) the objective the shelter, social, legal and labour integration of young immigrants living in peri-urban areas of the community of Madrid and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
SAEX project (funded by the City Council of the city of Leganés years 2013, 2014 and 2015) target the shelter, social, legal and labour integration of young immigrants and women victims of domestic violence who live in the suburbs (especially young people from Africa and Latin America)
MADRID SUR EN RED project (funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the community of Madrid, year 2014 and 2015) project of shelter, social, legal and labour integration of unemployed and in a situation of legal irregularity (immigrants) of Madrid and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
• INTEGRAL SERVICE TO MINORS AND FAMILAS OF IMMIGRANT ORIGIN project (funded by the City Council of the city of Leganés years 2013, 2014 and 2015) To attend, by means of a professional service, the situations of special vulnerability and social exclusion of the FAMILIES AND MINORS of immigrant origin in the municipality of Leganés (as CEMU Host Unit), by means of actions of integral reception, orientation and legal advice on the subject of status of foreigners and actions of sociolabour orientation.
Our Organization has worked for two years (2010 and 2011) in a project financed with European funds (European Social Fund) of the Ministry of Education and the Immigration Department of the Community of Madrid of Spain developing STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL for the network of schools and colleges of the educational system and whose aim was to:
Support teachers schools, head of studies departments, guidance departments, social workers, external staff of schools, improving school performance and student learning, the implementation of activities of motivation students for the improvement of learning, prevent early school leaving, prevent conflicts between teachers and students, prevent conflicts between students of different nationalities and social groups (ethnic), prevent of further violent incidences caused by gender violence and between families of the school, and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
• Also we implemented a support service after school outside of lesson time of study (in the afternoons) for students with school performance difficulties.
• Another objective was to support and direct work to the families of the students in the process of learning improvement, family conflicts, effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights, integration and social cohesion support prevention and prevention of early school leaving (worked in network with different organizations and other hosting centers of study including referrals and work network)
The project was implemented on 2010 and 2011
On the other hand, actually, and from 2012 (part of another project of SSF), we are developing a cross SUPPORT SERVICE TO HOSTING UNITS - schools and families of students the schools on the outskirts of cities in processes of welcome and family mediation and develop an effective intervention which reinforces the women’s equality rights.
We have also worked in the implementation of projects and new tools that accompany and support this prevention and training activities working in the areas - peri-urban cities on the outskirts of big cities and with use of information and communications technologies.
Our work also on board the psychological and emotional part in search of social integrations and coexistent habits, the teaching of individual self-esteem, self-help and motivation groups sessions.
SSF shows experience of cooperation and implementation European projects as coordinator (LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT – ERASMUS + - KA2 - 2014-1-ES01-KA204-004980) A consortium of seven partners from Spain, Norway, Greece, France, Cyprus and Austria, with relevant know-how and expertise
