COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse PracticesFig. 1 – Positive and negative aspects of relations between helper professionals and homeless peopleOne dimension of an empowering intervention (Fig. 2) is awareness: “ that’s exactly making individuals aware oftheir responsibility about their life... the central role of persons. ... I agree in this kind of intervention, I think thatthis is the only possible way.” Particularly, interventions aimed to promote social and relational skills could beimportant to make homeless aware of their social networks: “Encouraging socialization also in other socialenvironments, not only among homeless... getting people in touch with other situations that aren’t social services,that is giving a chance to take part in other social contexts”.They speak about advocacy, referred to local institutions and decision makers, in order to pay more attention tohomelessness and to changes in social policies, supporting risky groups, for instance women, migrants andpersons with disabling diseases.Rebuilding one’s lifetime {3-1}Taking again an active part insociety {9-1}EmpoweringinterventionsPromoting independence andindividual skills in order tomaking changes {10-0}Promoting relational andsocial skills {12-0}Supporting time and placemanagement {5-0}Advocacy {3-0}Fig. 2 – Empowering interventions.188