Social Welfare Center of Central Macedonia

Social Welfare Centre of Central Macedonia is located at Thessaloniki in Greece. The strategic goal of the Social Welfare Centre of Central Macedonia is to help eliminate social exclusion and poverty by strengthening social cohesion, and providing quality welfare services to the citizens of Central Macedonia. More specifically, it aims to: • prevent and deal with challenging factors which may give rise to social exclusion and marginalisation; • protect and provide care for individuals who lack a supportive environment, including the delivery of all services necessary for ensuring decent living conditions. • further the process of deinstituzionalization of persons residing in institutions by enchancing their skills and preparing the ground for them to smoothly transition into and be actively reintegrated in the community. • improve available services and/or develop new ones in order to provide new opportunities to vulnerable social groups and, ultimately, to the whole society. Examples of good practice include: the establishing of a Social Cooperative, the “Athena” International Independent Living Skills Training Centre and a number of other leading actions/projects.