Audacia
Association Audacia
Poitiers, France
About
Founded in 1963, Audacia is a non-profit association based in Poitiers, France working on housing & homelessness, refugees & migration, mental health +3 more.
Audacia is a French association under the 1901 law, recognised as being in the general interest, based in Poitiers. Founded in 1963 as Entraide Sociale Poitevine and renamed in 2013, it works with people in difficulty, vulnerability and precarity, offering reception, housing and social reintegration services. Its six poles cover migrants and asylum seekers, people with psychosocial disabilities, isolated people, families and children, and older people, along with a housing and living-environment division. The association operates in the Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Deux-Sèvres and Charente departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and reports supporting more than 3,000 people. It describes itself as a non-profit organisation and employs over 110 professionals.
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Pôle Migrant
Refugees & Migration · France
Accommodation (CADA, HUDA, emergency centres) and integration support for asylum seekers and people granted international protection in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Pôle Handicap Psychosocial
Mental health · France
Social support and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with psychosocial disabilities, including the Logis de la Cour in Jazeneuil.
Pôle Personne Isolée
Housing & Homelessness · France
Support for isolated and precarious people, including health-access services for people whose precarity limits access to care.
Pôle Famille Enfance
Children & Youth · France
Support for families, including single-parent families, and a parent-child reception centre in Poitiers.
Pôle Personne Âgée
Elderly care · France
Care and accommodation services for older people, including the former EHPAD Les Boutons d'Or in Ruffec.
Un Chez Soi d'Abord 86
Housing & Homelessness · France
Housing-first scheme for people in the Vienne department, run through a joint social and medico-social cooperation group with the Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit.
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Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit, Conseil Départemental de la Vienne, UFOLEP Vienne 86, Ville de Poitiers, Grand Poitiers, EKIDOM
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