CEMO

Founded in 1978, CEMO is a non-profit association based in Saint-Gilles, Belgium working on children & youth, housing & homelessness, community development.

CEMO (Centre d'Education en Milieu Ouvert) is a non-profit association (asbl) based in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. It is recognised and approved by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles as a Service d'Actions en Milieu Ouvert (AMO) and also acts as the youth service of the Saint-Gilles public social welfare centre (CPAS). It provides free support to children and young people aged 0 to 22 in Saint-Gilles and their families, combining individual support, collective and community actions, street work, school prevention and social diagnosis. Its KAP service offers provisional autonomous housing with intensive educational and psycho-social support for young people aged 16 to 25. The team works in a multidisciplinary way with schools, youth associations and other local partners, and operates independently of any judicial mandate. The service was set up by the CPAS of Saint-Gilles in 1978.