Retirement and disability pensions for people with insufficient economic resources and who do not qualify for contributory pensions. These non-contributory pensions are part of the Seguretat Social / Social Security system.
People who do not have a home and live on the streets.
Apartments for youngsters who leave the care of the Directorate-General for Care for Children and Teenagers upon reaching the age of 18 (adult age). The authorities have established a series of measures to help with their social and vocational integration at that point. Those measures include supervised apartments for young people who do not have their own resources and are very unlikely to achieve personal autonomy.
Sheltered homes where women can live temporarily after spending the maximum amount of time possible in a refuge. In halfway houses, women continue working to achieve full social and vocational integration, a process that begins in refuges.
A series of measures aimed at Catalans and their descendants who decide to return to Catalonia to live and work in the country. The plan includes various economic benefits and measures related to the social services, work, training, housing, etc.
A programme aimed at immigrants living in Catalonia who want to return to their country of origin. They receive help with obtaining the documents they need for their journey and are provided with a flight ticket and a small amount of money for the purposes of reintegration into their country.
A type of programme for young people over the age of 18 who have previously been in the care of the Directorate-General for Care for Children and Teenagers. Such programmes include vocational training and work experience in companies. Each youngster is assigned an occupational tutor to guide and assist them in the process of achieving social and work-related independence.
The programmes in question are as follows:
- Aid programme for residential care, day centres and sheltered homes for senior citizens.
- Economic aid programme for dependent senior citizens.
- Programmes for temporary accommodation in homes for disabled senior citizens.
Public occupational programmes that are intended to provide unemployed people with training and work by involving them in projects that serve public or general interests, thus improving their chances of getting a job. The Catalan Ministry of Enterprise and Employment (Departament d’Empresa i Ocupació) runs these programmes through vocational training centres and occupational workshops.
The name of a service (punt de trobada means ‘meeting place' in English) that aims to provide a neutral setting for dealing with and preventing family conflicts in order to establish, re-establish or reinforce bonds between children and parents with whom they no longer live following a divorce or separation. The objective is to avoid situations involving risk developing as the result of the separation of children's parents. Meetings take place in the presence of qualified staff and are always confidential.