Proximity
"This project is part of the plan PRO SOL": The project “We-Proximity” experiments new models of “local welfare” with the establishment of exchange networks and sharing of good practices in the cross-border context. The territorial scope of these activities includes marginal areas, sparsely populated and characterised by a progressive depopulation due to economic and social changes occurred in recent years. Isolation and difficulties in accessing services for the people who still live there have appeared in these areas. The goal of this project is to develop, in the mountain communities, a network model of people care.

The reorganization of health and social services requires an Italian-French strategic vision in terms of development of the territorial ecosystem (prevention capacities, support for mountain communities and sustainability).
This plan foresees 4 projects defined in relation to the target groups: young people, women, elderly people and proximity. The objectives are socio-health integration and the development of open and united communities, with new work opportunities in innovative services, with a view to supporting families in areas that are not easily accessible.
For each project, a working method is planned with common phases, the study of the environment (until 2022), the qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the resources and services in place, through assessment assessments by users, professionals. and the socio-sanitary operators,
The selection of appropriate instruments to increase services in the community, with a jointly planned feasibility study. Experimenting with innovative solutions, benchmarking results and preparing guidelines for defining common policies. The Proximity project will allow constant exchange between public organizations and the social private sector for the production of common tools for analysis, implementation and programming, and the experimentation, within each target project, of new models of perennial proximity welfare.

Information added on 2021-02-02, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019):
In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, this project modified one of its planned activities in order to offer specific trainings and to deal with the lack of caregivers in retirement homes. The trainings are targeted at caregivers who have already worked in emergency situations.