COPORE - Survey of good practice

Examples of Good Practice

A survey on the latest research and best practice in poverty reduction through health and social care was conducted in order to publish, present and disseminate, as well as to analyse, the required competences for health and social care workers and policy recommendations for practice.

The COPORE project called for examples of services/projects/programmes in Europe, that address poverty reduction at different levels (e.g. system level, practice level), either directly or indirectly. Poverty, social exclusion and health inequalities are linked. Projects addressing health and poverty issues in education, social and health service provision or, preferably, in combination, were invited to send a description of their work.

Nine such projects demonstrating good practice were invited to present their experiences at the conference (23/24 April 2010). The selection committee based its' selection on the attached criteria. In addition to these criteria, the selection committee also tried to assure, as far as possible, a regional balance, that is; the inclusion of good practices from regions in Europe where poverty reduction practices are not as common as in other parts of Europe.

Read here the nine selected projects:

• The Bromley Bow Centre
• Creating a centre of excellence in the delivery of integrated services: Ruse Complex for the Social Support of Children and Families
• Empowering Learning for Social Inclusion through Occupation (ELSITO)
• Empowerment and linking against poverty
• General qualification strategies for integrated health and social-coordinators exemplified via the poverty reduction project “Herzwerk”
• Miquel Marti I Pol project
• Prevention and Poverty
• Reducing youth worklessness through building bridges between university and labour market: the case of social work student practices.
• Safety house

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