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
General criteria:
- 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