Community Centre for Social rehabilitation and integration of severely brain damaged people
The community centre is for mild/moderately brain damage people or those in an evolving state. The project involves a customised rehabilitation plan that includes educational, social, health and recreational activities. The main goal is to develop the individual’s independence, enhance socialisation, maintain a cultural level and guide the person through training towards independence to ultimately enter the labour market. Interventions are modular taking regularity, time and activities into consideration. Attending the community centre can be either part time or full time and at home or away from home, according to the specific needs.
The rehab courses include:
- Rehabilitation (at the centre), practical workshops aimed at developing personal independence, use of PC and participation in decision making processes;
- Cognitive rehabilitation (at the centre), individual and group rehab courses;
- Rehabilitative and educational activities (at the centre), where the subject can learn and strengthen their skills in a safe context (preparatory informatics laboratories for working integration, secretarial activities, self-empowerment laboratory, etc.);
- Maintain and enhance of social independence (in the local area);
- Evaluation and development of working skills (in the local area /at the centre);
- Continuous and controlled activities (in the local area) working in firms, associations or cooperatives with a focus on training;
- Psychological support to the person and their family (at the centre).
