Social commitment is the engine that drives the various teams and services of the Aspace Catalunya Foundation in their daily mission. From their dedication in community areas to the promotion of inclusion and the well-being of the most vulnerable, these professionals develop a shared responsibility in building a fairer and more cohesive society.
The Early Care Center, the Badalona and Poble Sec Occupational Therapy Center, the Special Education School and the Rehabilitation Centers are living witnesses of this delivery. Through a series of innovative and collaborative projects, they have become essential pillars of the community, sharing experiences in the lives of neighbors, young people and adults in the districts where they develop their activity.
The CDIAP has been a key player in the development of the "Barcelona City Council's Digital Wellbeing Government Measure", an initiative with more than 50 actions aimed at promoting healthy screen use among children and adolescents. This collaboration stands out for its commitment to preventing problems such as addiction and cyberbullying, placing the health and well-being of young people at the center of its concerns.
We also intervene in the community by participating in the following prevention activities
Social commitment is the engine that drives the various teams and services of the Aspace Catalunya Foundation in their daily mission. From their dedication in community areas to the promotion of inclusion and the well-being of the most vulnerable, these professionals develop a shared responsibility in building a fairer and more cohesive society.
The Early Care Center, the Badalona and Poble Sec Occupational Therapy Center, the Special Education School and the Rehabilitation Centers are living witnesses of this delivery. Through a series of innovative and collaborative projects, they have become essential pillars of the community, sharing experiences in the lives of neighbors, young people and adults in the districts where they develop their activity.
The CDIAP has been a key player in the development of the "Barcelona City Council's Digital Wellbeing Government Measure", an initiative with more than 50 actions aimed at promoting healthy screen use among children and adolescents. This collaboration stands out for its commitment to preventing problems such as addiction and cyberbullying, placing the health and well-being of young people at the center of its concerns.
Poblenou Occupational Therapy Center
- We participate in the neighborhood festivals of the Poblenou neighborhood, setting up a stall throughout the week that the festivities last. With these activities we work on the socialization and visibility of the collective and the centre.
- We participate in the Disability Day events, organized together with other entities that work in our sector.
- We give awareness talks at schools, institutes and Training Centers, where we explain who we are and what we do.
- We work in a network with other entities in the neighborhood and in the sector, expanding knowledge between the entities, and providing socialization experiences to the users of the center.
- We participate in a joint project with Apropa Cultura. This 2024, we have recorded a training video tutorial aimed at workers in the field of culture, explaining what cerebral palsy is and how we want to be treated.
- We participate in the Magistrals Project, a community project in which we participate different organizations that work with people with disabilities. Framed in an art workshop, specifically in the world of collage, and led by the Setba Foundation, an organization that works to contribute to social transformation through culture.
- We participate in the Tricicleta't Project, a project to promote physical activity and healthy habits promoted and coordinated by Cesar León, at the Can Felipa Municipal Sports Center in Barcelona, thanks to the transfer by the Generalitat de Catalunya of several tricycles.
Badalona Occupational Therapy Center
- We carry out the "Know Aspace-Badalona" Project, where schools, institutes and other centers or entities come to visit the Badalona Centre.
- We participate in the Community Service Project, where institutes carry out volunteering activities with vulnerable groups. We have agreements with the Arrels-Blanquerna and Arrels Esperança schools in Badalona, where high school students come to volunteer with our users.
- We participate in a joint project with the Milà and Fontanals Institute of Barcelona, carrying out a joint sports activity.
- We participate with the Badalona Capaç Foundation, through a shared project with the Cointegra Occupational Center where we meet to play Boccia. With this project, social relations, networking, knowledge of the reality of another center with disabilities is encouraged.
- We participate with the ASPRONIS Foundation, through a project shared with the occupational center of the ASPRONIS Foundation in Blanes. The "Getting to know the environment through photography" project consists of meeting once a month in a town on the coast and getting to know the environment through the creation of a photographic report.
Aspace Special Education School
The Special Education School, for its part, has set itself the challenge of promoting equal opportunities through projects such as "Play is a Right!", which seeks to guarantee that all children can enjoy public space in an inclusive and safe way.
- We participate in the Project "Playing is a right!", promoted by the Poblesec Community Plan. It is a project in which different schools in the Poblesec neighborhood have participated, claiming public spaces in the neighborhood as playable spaces. Some students from the school made a project to convert a current green area above the Olympic Museum, close to our school, into an adapted and inclusive children's park for all children. This project aims to claim the right to play that all boys and girls have.
- We participate in intergenerational projects. On the one hand, between the students of the school and the users of the Aspace residence through the Cooking Workshop, the visit of the Punt Verd Mòbil Escolar and recycling workshop, with the aim of promoting the basic principles of coexistence and strengthening affective capacities. On the other hand, we organize meetings with the siblings of some students, to create bonds between siblings and teach what we do in the classroom.
- We participate in the Barcelona City Council's Schools + sustainable project, OLES + SUSTAINABLES OF THE CITY OF BARCELONA: where educational centers are people of change in the city. Through work with the school garden and waste management we face the challenges of sustainability and the climate emergency.
Finally, the Rehabilitation Centers have established alliances with institutes and other entities to provide support and training to teachers in the care of children with special needs, contributing to the creation of a more equitable and enriching educational environment for all students.
