La Tenda - Solidarity Centre” is a not for profit organisation established in Salerno in 1981 and aimed to promote the social development through solidarity and helping people in self-promotion.
During the last few years the Centre has carried out networking actions (at local, national and at European level) regarding the start up of programmes with the objective to promote social co-operation, from an entrepreneurial point of view.
The privileged beneficiaries of these actions are: drug abusers and ex drug abusers, minors at risk, ex offenders, people with mental health problems, unemployed, social workers, and asylum seekers. Nowadays La Tenda is a permanent observatory upon social changes, acting as:
* development and social inter-mediation agency, through networking with Institutional and Public Bodies, SMEs, Third Sector organisations, Universities and training agencies;
* an organisation providing services across the community and targeted to people in needs;
* a promoter for new employment opportunities through social enterprises.
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The services set up are:
* psychopedagocical services, with diversified modular educational programmes dealing with starting up working integration;
* social-health services;
* training services with specific and permanent or short courses for the tutors in the sector and workers in the region;
ARA, social working Centre for co-operation, development and employability offering services such as:
* legal and administrative consultancy to the clients in the Centre,
* vocational training and career advice;
* practical cultural and sport programmes;
* counselling for families;
* promotion, incubation and advice on co-operative work and self-employment;
* CAOS training centre for studies, planning and research.
In the last three years the Centre has been involved with the following activities:
* Developing models for social and working inclusion for disadvantaged people and promoting new social professional profiles (“Tutoring for Job” and “Jobbe” projects);
* creating transnational networks to promoting social inclusion (“Coordi-Nations” project);
* training programmes for individuals at risk of social exclusion (“Cooperattore” and “No profit” projects);
* paying particular attention to social and support economy by favouring and organising time for comparing and awareness, information, benchmarking, shared planning, promoting the exchange of ideas and co-operation at national and transnational level and development of related models (“Agorà” Initiative);
* programmes of self-awareness carried out in schools offering advice and training to the teachers regarding co-operative work (the school offers advice to the school);
* involvement in carrying out the “Quality System”, aimed to the development of the quality and excellence criteria specific for the non profit sector and social co-operative enterprises;
* organisation and support for conference/seminars activities.
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job opportunities, autopromotion ,development of attidudes , experiences through many projects
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