D-&-WB COPENHAGEN Invitation

Dear Colleagues, 20 August 2016

SMES-Europa has the pleasure to invite you, to participate after the 1st Workshop in Warsawa 1-2-3 October 2015, the 2nd was in Athens 14-15-16 April, in the 3rd Workshop, which will be held to COPENHAGEN on 27-28 -29 October 2016, co-organised with the colleagues of Projekt UDENFOR.

The purpose of D-&-WB European project, as you know, is: to bring attention, to deepen listen the voice expressed or not, of these persons, home-less, health-less, hope-less, living in chronically way without habitation, rough sleeping or in emergency shelters, in scandalous conditions of absolute social exclusion and deprivation.

TOGETHER and OUTREACHING will be the keywords that can offer positive answer to these both questions.

To two FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS we will try to find – together - suitable and innovative answers in this workshop:

> WHY some homeless people - with mental health problems - rough sleeping in permanent way or in emergency centres and squats - frequently - giving the impression to refuse any institutional offer of assistance & integration? And this number seems increases, in scandalous way.

> HOW in some innovative & efficient projects: mental health services, emergency and assistance services, housing services, reintegration services - co-working - want to contribute and facilitate the promotion of the dignity and well-being of these suffering people without distinction of origin, gender and age.

Together & Outreaching will be the keywords at base of each positive answer to these questions.

Dignity & Well-being as Fundamental Right & Solidarity are the topics, which were oriented - from 1992 - the social mission and initiatives of SMES Europa. We count - with your active collaboration - to continue and to perform at best the projects and initiatives in favour of people living in extreme situations of social and health exclusion.

Waiting you in Copenhagen for exchanging - evaluating - proposing for more congruent and adequate answers. Thank you for your support and collaboration and for further information, please contact us.

Sincerely

Luigi Leonori
President

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(*) ST. Mungos article: http://www.mungos.org/press_office/2496_prime-minster-urged-to-stop-the-scandal-of-people-with-mental-health-problems-sleeping-rough-as-new-figures-show-unprecedented-increase-in-numbers-on-the-streets

CRISIS estimation : New figures reveal that 3,569 people were found sleeping rough on any given night in England in 2015, an increase of 30% per cent on the previous year

Home-less - Health-less - Hope-less

When person have lost everything, there is no more that body for cry and street to get lost

Homeless living in severe & chronic social, physical, psychical precariousness are a symptom of the malaise of our civilization today and a permanent injury of democracy and social cohesion. They are almost a provocation and challenge both for those who are working in this sector and for those who should be responsible of the polis / citizens.

SMES-Europa, following these findings, propose Dignity & Well-being', as a transnational project promoting exchanges of experience and knowledge in the field of extreme poverty and mental illness / health , in order to promote adequate, effective and coherent answers, ensuring for each person dignity and well-being and promoting and facilitating the access to fundamental right and to basic citizen services.

General object of 'Dignity & Well-being project' is

to meet, listen and understand deepest, the voice of people who has become voice-less because identity-less, home-less, health-less, hope-less… and excluded.
to evaluate the causes & factors of this deprivation and the reasons explain why they seems to prefer life in the street or in a emergency centers, despite more adequate proposal of aid,
to identify some innovative practices and coherent projects ;
to recommend some priorities in social & health policy.

The Dignity & Well-being workshops, will focus attention on relation and interaction between each individual homeless and the interventions made by social & health providers of services as :

Mental health services in Institutions and in Community;
Emergency shelters, drop inn centres; dispensaries ....
Supported housing; community housing; solidarity apartments...
Outreach team.

The WORKSHOPS initiative of D-&-WB project , will be based on case studies of individual home-less, describing their health and mental health status, social situation and interventions made on their behalf by street workers in order to facilitate - together and in integrate and sustainable way the access to : 1) Health/mental health services; 2) Emergency and social assistance services; 3) Housing services; 4) Participative inclusion services.

SMES warmly invites each participant in workshop to prepare with colleagues of their service at least an individual profile, (a study's case) of a person well known and followed by the service, using this common protocol :
cf. : http://www.smes-europa.org/D-&-WB_PROTOCOL%20of%20profiles.htm and sending us for the end of September.

The preparation of these interventions will enrich the inter-vision work of workshop . The results of these workshops will be at the basis of the 14^th European seminar, where the participants will prepare the priorities and recommendations to present both to local policy makers and administrators.

QUESTION :

	DIGNITY and WELL-BEING 3^rd EXCHANGE and INTER-VISION program concerning interventions & pathways for Homeless in extreme poverty situation with mental health problems COPENHAGEN 27-28-29 October 2016


Dear Colleagues, 20 August 2016 SMES-Europa has the pleasure to invite you, to participate after the 1st Workshop in Warsawa 1-2-3 October 2015, the 2nd was in Athens 14-15-16 April, in the 3rd Workshop, which will be held to COPENHAGEN on 27-28 -29 October 2016, co-organised with the colleagues of Projekt UDENFOR. The purpose of D-&-WB European project, as you know, is: to bring attention, to deepen listen the voice expressed or not, of these persons, home-less, health-less, hope-less, living in chronically way without habitation, rough sleeping or in emergency shelters, in scandalous conditions of absolute social exclusion and deprivation. TOGETHER and OUTREACHING will be the keywords that can offer positive answer to these both questions. To two FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS we will try to find – together - suitable and innovative answers in this workshop: > WHY some homeless people - with mental health problems - rough sleeping in permanent way or in emergency centres and squats - frequently - giving the impression to refuse any institutional offer of assistance & integration? And this number seems increases, in scandalous way. > HOW in some innovative & efficient projects: mental health services, emergency and assistance services, housing services, reintegration services - co-working - want to contribute and facilitate the promotion of the dignity and well-being of these suffering people without distinction of origin, gender and age. Together & Outreaching will be the keywords at base of each positive answer to these questions. Dignity & Well-being as Fundamental Right & Solidarity are the topics, which were oriented - from 1992 - the social mission and initiatives of SMES Europa. We count - with your active collaboration - to continue and to perform at best the projects and initiatives in favour of people living in extreme situations of social and health exclusion. Waiting you in Copenhagen for exchanging - evaluating - proposing for more congruent and adequate answers. Thank you for your support and collaboration and for further information, please contact us. Sincerely Luigi Leonori President ------------------------------- () ST. Mungos article:* http://www.mungos.org/press_office/2496_prime-minster-urged-to-stop-the-scandal-of-people-with-mental-health-problems-sleeping-rough-as-new-figures-show-unprecedented-increase-in-numbers-on-the-streets CRISIS estimation : New figures reveal that 3,569 people were found sleeping rough on any given night in England in 2015, an increase of 30% per cent on the previous year Home-less - Health-less - Hope-less When person have lost everything, there is no more that body for cry and street to get lost Homeless living in severe & chronic social, physical, psychical precariousness are a symptom of the malaise of our civilization today and a permanent injury of democracy and social cohesion. They are almost a provocation and challenge both for those who are working in this sector and for those who should be responsible of the polis / citizens. SMES-Europa, following these findings, propose Dignity & Well-being', as a transnational project promoting exchanges of experience and knowledge in the field of extreme poverty and *mental illness* / health , in order to promote adequate, effective and coherent answers, ensuring for each person dignity and well-being and promoting and facilitating the access to fundamental right and to basic citizen services. General object of 'Dignity & Well-being project' is to meet, *listen* and *understand* deepest, the voice of people who has become voice-less because identity-less, home-less, health-less, hope-less… and excluded. to evaluate the causes & factors of this deprivation and the reasons explain why they seems to prefer life in the street or in a emergency centers, despite more adequate proposal of aid, to identify some innovative practices and coherent projects ; to *recommend* some priorities in social & health policy. The Dignity & Well-being workshops, will focus attention on relation and interaction between each individual homeless and the interventions made by social & health providers of services as : Mental health services in Institutions and in Community; Emergency shelters, drop inn centres; dispensaries .... Supported housing; community housing; solidarity apartments... Outreach team. The WORKSHOPS initiative of D-&-WB project , will be based on case studies of individual home-less, describing their health and mental health status, social situation and interventions made on their behalf by street workers in order to facilitate - together and in integrate and sustainable way the access to : 1) Health/mental health services; 2) Emergency and social assistance services; 3) Housing services; 4) Participative inclusion services. SMES warmly invites each participant in workshop to prepare with colleagues of their service at least an individual profile, (a study's case) of a person well known and followed by the service, using this common protocol : cf. : http://www.smes-europa.org/D-&-WB_PROTOCOL%20of%20profiles.htm and sending us for the end of September. The preparation of these interventions will enrich the inter-vision work of workshop . The results of these workshops will be at the basis of the 14^th European seminar, where the participants will prepare the priorities and recommendations to present both to local policy makers and administrators. QUESTION :