Understanding Social Services Systems (SSSS) and Their Impact

Economic Benefits

Supplies are considered cash subject to periodic or ad hoc nature granted to individuals or families to facilitate their social integration, support for caring for dependents, to alleviate temporary situations of need or minimum subsistence guarantee. The award requires the prior demonstration that meet certain requirements. They are part of them, providing income economic spoils of insertion for the access to which sets out a number of requirements.

  • The social emergency economic aid, extraordinary and non-recurring.
  • The temporary financial assistance to support processes of social integration and personal development.
  • The financial aid to individuals for the promotion of foster care of minors, elderly and disabled.

The check-service mode of supply economic granted to individuals or families to meet with her to pay for facilities that have been shown to respond suitability to your situation. Non-contributory pensions and disability retirement for Social Security, pensions for the elderly and sick care for working incapacidados extinguished National Welfare Fund and the Grant of minimum income guarantee, the third-aid allowance person, and the mobility allowance and compensation for transportation costs.

Material Performance

They understand those whose economic or technical content is replaced in whole or in part, by its material equivalent. Must be indicated previously as appropriate remedy to address the need in question, and their enjoyment may be subject to conditions or participation in their cost.

It is part:

  • Residential care, which involves accommodation, continuous or temporary replacement of the home.
  • Day care, which provides personal care, advocacy and implementation of prevention or treatment on an outpatient basis.
  • Home care is a set of offering hospitality or persons or families in their own homes, to facilitate their development and remain in their usual environment.
  • Telecare, instrumental support provided care and support continuous personal and social, allowing detection of crisis and immediate intervention in them.
  • Maintenance, which is to provide prepared food for consumption, whether in local or collective attention user’s own home.
  • Aid techniques to maintain the autonomy of the person to function in their environment.

The Actions of Social Services Systems (SSSS) in the Laws of the Autonomous Communities (CCAA)

According to SSSS Laws of the CCAA, the SSSS are structured in Community and expertise.

Community SSSS

They are those who seek to promote and enable the development of all citizens.

A) SSSS Information and Guidance

Aim at communication and guidance to users thereof, in respect of rights and social resources for resolution of the needs that arise. Include the functions of diagnosis, admission and referral.

a) Among others, the functions are to provide accurate information to citizens and public and private entities. Realizing the need for better diagnostic user orientation. Identify the problems of people with high social risk and promote the creation, coordination and comprehensive and multipurpose utilization of social resources within their scope.

B) Promotion and Cooperation in Social SSSS

Aim at increasing the life of the community, facilitating participation in common tasks and promoting social entrepreneurship, primarily volunteering and partnerships.

Develop, among other functions:

  • Advance the association and participation through appropriate support and expertise.
  • Enhancing social volunteer organizations.
  • Establishing cooperative programs between the different public and private, nonprofit, and public administrations.
  • Develop and promote the awareness campaign and social awareness, in collaboration with agencies and associations.
  • Encouraging the development of depressed areas, urban and rural areas, promoting the efforts of the Community and Administration to raise their standard of living.

C) The Homecare SSSS

Are intended to provide, at home, a series of attentions from domestic, social, psychological and rehabilitative support to individuals and families who require it to be possible not to function or be in any conflict psicofamiliar members, thus facilitating the permanence and autonomy in the usual means of coexistence.

Providing, inter alia:

  • Cooperation in addressing health and hygiene and personal care.
  • Maintenance channel information for beneficiaries in their homes.
  • All those that allow citizens to remain in their source of life.

Are targeted on:

  • The family (in cases of illness, hospitalization and other temporary causes some members essential to the operation)
  • The elderly, the disabled, children, women and drug addicts.

D) Coexistence SSSS

Seek to promote alternative forms of ordinary family life in cases where this is unfeasible in the absence of the household or because, even if established, present a situation of deteriorating psychological, emotional and social reintegration to prevent short-term.

The beneficiaries are:

  • The citizens who are not integrated into any household and can not themselves meet their basic needs.
  • Those who, while being integrated in a household have to travel to receive services to distant places of residence of the family unit being unviable return the same day and victims of social emergency.

The functions are:

  • The promotion of fostering and adoption, by conducting a census of potential guardians or adoptive parents and preparing them relevant.
  • Planning, development and management of residential and tutored microresidencias, especially for the elderly, youth and women who have no family or whose unit stable relations with it unviable.
  • Establishment and management of the benefit system to ensure the coexistence in the family unit when the causes of the necessary separation of the same are purely economic in nature.