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							            Fédération
            nationale    des


            associations
            d’accueil et de

            réinsertion
            sociale

            A

     Network
of associations to help the

 most   destitute
                            Some
                            figures
750 associations & public agencies
 2 200 institutions and services
        - emergency services
        - shelters and housing units
        - support services
        - insertion workshops and
        building sites
        - day nurseries


 12 000 persons employed
 600 000 persons in difficulty
                      received each year :
        45 000 beds (shelter, temporary housing)
    {   12 000 insertion jobs
                    Missions
 Training
    of social workers and volunteers


 Counselling
    technical assistance
    support of experimentations


 Information
    List of services to the homeless
    Reports
    Juridical guidebooks
    Review
    Mediatic actions
                   Missions
 To represent the members
    Public agencies :
      Departments, Members of Parliament
    Local government
    Partners :
      Union Nationale des HLM (social housing)
    European agencies :
      FEANTSA

 To analyse
    Evaluation of programs and measures
    Observatory of experimentations
    Task forces
    Studies, surveys, sampling
    Seminars
               Main Issues
 The right to housing
  What are the realities behind this right ?
  What are the juridical applications ?
  Can it be a « droit opposable » and under which
  conditions of implementation ?

 Youth exclusion
  Which prevention to address the increase in the
  number of wandering youth ? What is the share of the
  institutions (school..), of the family, of public policies in
  the responsibility for this problem?

 Family and social policies
  Is the family policy adapted to today realities ? What is
  the link between a possible inadequacy of family
  policies and factors of exclusion for the homeless ?

 Social mixing
What is the meaning of this concept ? How to implement
it ? Which long-term evolution? What relevance ?
               Main Issues
- Immigration and homelessness
 Which policy of integration, in its juridical, economical,
 socio-cultural aspects, to address the increase in the
 numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and failed
 asylum seekers, as well as racial discrimination in
 access to housing ?

 Social policies
 Are they suitable to address the increase               of
 homelessness ?
 How to evaluate social work and practices ?

 Housing demand, housing needs, typologies
 of persons and situations
  Creation of tools for observation

 The State and the associations
  Given the mission of the State regarding solidarity
  issues, what means the «public service delegation »
  from the State to the associations, according to which
  criteria and in which conditions ?
                Main Issues
    Between         emergency      and     insertion
    measures
    What kind of coordination ?

 In a context of population ageing
    What effects and consequences on social policies
    directed towards the homeless ?

 Homelessness and mental health
    How to account for this issue ? Which role for the
    NGOs ?

 Researchers /
    How to cooperate in order to capitalize approaches,
    analyses and questions ?