Home assistance consists of a group of resources that aim to facilitate the social integration of people with a need for specific support to aid their recovery.

Objectives

• Facilitate maintaining individuals within the community.
• Provide a network of social support in different types of alternative accommodation.
• Prevent or reduce the risk of psycho-social decline and marginalisation.
• Reduce stress and vulnerability attributable to the family context.
• Promote interaction with others.
• Improve living conditions across all health areas.
• Encourage making use of the opportunities afforded by the welfare state.

Who it is aimed at

• Those who require residential support as a result of having little or no social contact as a consequence of suffering a serious and chronic mental illness, whilst maintaining relative personal independence.
• Those who lack other residential provisions of a general nature.
• Users of public services provided by the network of psychiatric care of the Regional Government of the Canary Islands.
• Those suffering a stressful family environment.
• Those with little or no adherence to mental health services and/or those living within an extreme social situation.
• Those who accept the living conditions for the proposed resource.
• Specific criteria:
• Those who adapt to the level of specific support for the corresponding resource in each case.
• Those who accept the established economic conditions which must be formalised in an individual contract with the body or association charged with managing the resource.
• Those who suffer an officially recognised disability.
• Those who are willing to participate in activities outside of the home and/or in the psychosocial rehabilitation resources.
• Support and monitoring by the Assertive Community Unit (ECA).

Types of accommodation

• Guest houses: For those who do not wish to or cannot live with other people and are able to live independently within the community, under supervision.
• Sheltered accommodation: For people who are able to live with other people and who are accepted by other members of the accommodation, with sufficient skills to live independently. Supervision required.
• Mini residences: For people who can live with other people but who are more dependent, requiring continual supervision to cover healthcare needs.
• Own home: For people living in their own homes who have low levels of dependence on psychiatric service facilities or who live in extreme social situations or situations with no or a very scant social-family network.

Applications, Contact details and Information

• Insular Institute of Social and Socio-Sanitary Care
• Department for Disability
• Telephone: 922 843 156
• Website: www.iass.es

• The Tenerife Association Working for Mental Health (ATELSAM)
• Address: Calle Juan Rumeu García 28, 2ºE, 38008, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
• Find us on Google Maps
• Telephone: 922 205 215
• Fax: 922 205 258
• Email: atelsam@teide.net

• The Canary Islands Association of Families and People with Mental Illness (AFES)
• Address: Calle 6 de Diciembre, 3B, 3º A, 38203, La Laguna
• Find us on Google Maps
• Telephone: 922 630 883
• Fax: 922 260 797
• Website: www.afescanarias.org

• Tenerife Council for Psychosocial Rehabilitation
• Telephone: 922 602 460