The main objective is to provide the necessary support for the decision-making to people with intellectual disabilities that we attend and defend their rights in order to ensure their wellfare, accompany them in their integral development, and their social inclusion.
The programme of Future Planning program is addressed to those families who have decided and formalized in their will that, in the future, Som – Fundació will be the guardian of their relative, with the legal capacity modified.
The program promotes mutual knowledge between the relatives or legal guardians of the person with a intellectual disability and the entity, as well as offering them security and confidence in the future.
The entity inform and orientate persons who have a relative with intellectual disability, or professionals of entities, about the process of judicial modification of capacity.
FUTURE PROVISION IS PROTECTIONPredicting the future of people with intellectual disabilities is an urgent need in view of the increase in life expectancy.
Modifying legal capacity is a legal declaration of disability is the process by which a judge determines that a person does not have the capacity to govern himself. Therefore, it means protecting the rights, defending and give supports to people who needs personar and/or patrimonial support to develop their personal project.
Representing the person who has been declared disabled at court is to guarantee his protection, manage and protect his property and to make sure that he has quality of life.
Creating a relationship between the person, their family and the institution before accepting the guardianship, promoting mutual knowledge and offering security and confidence to the person we will support in the future.
Jesús N. has been linked with volunteering for more than 30 years. He has collaborated with the Asociació de Familiars i Amics de Nens Oncològics de Catalunya (Afanoc) and, currently, as a volunteer at the Fundació Once, an entity that cooperates for some years. He recognizes that he has been very lucky in his life […]
Cristina A. has lived in residences and residential centers since she was 18 years old. She defines herself as an autonomous and self-sufficient person who needs some support to live just like other people who do not have a recognized disability. She considers that, until now, she has been very guarded by the rules […]
Angel M. is a person who has no family and finds it very difficult to ask other people for help in resolving those issues that concern or worry him. For a while, he lived alone and, as a result of various circumstances, the Fundació Catalana Síndrome de Down sent him to our foundation to find […]
Solidarity initiatives and collaborations have been present during the year 2020 to combat the negative impact that the pandemic has had on vulnerable persons and families. In the case of Som – Fundació, it has continued with the Pont Alimentari project, promoted by the Fundació Banc de Recursos, which has continued its growth in […]
Some members of the group of Som Companys met in person last month to walk around Monjuïc and recorded a video for the greeting of New Year that we have published in our page of facebook. They took advantage of the meeting to answer the survey about the evaluation of the activities in which they […]
The social accountability establishes that every activity or company interacts in its surroundings, generating a social, economic, and environmental impact. Likewise, it outstands that the entities of the Third Sector are focused on determine its social impact, but without qualifying it, something that undervalues our contribution to the society. Before this circumstance, Som – Fundació […]
The VI Contest of Christmas cards had the participation of 47 persons who sent their original and diverse proposals. We must point out that in this edition the pandemic times have been reflected in some cards. Some of the participants have included the detail of the facemasks on the Cristmas trees and on the […]
The Commission of Christmas Postcards met on November 18th to select the 10 finalist of the VI Contest of the foundation. This year, due to the prevention measures of the pandemic, the commission was composed of 5 professionals of several areas who worked that day on the foundation premises: Cande Infante, Lluis Puigdomènech, Montse […]
At the foundation, we have begun the development of the Cognitive Accessibility program in order to make information accessible and promote the autonomy and participation of the people with intellectual disabilities we attend. The first phase of the program consists of selecting the most relevant documents and proposing the corresponding content in easy reading. The […]
The Som Companys group finally met in person on October 20th. Not all members of the group were able to meet because there were some who were locked down as a precautionary measure, for having kept in touch with a person who had tested positive for Covid-19. We take this opportunity to wish them much […]
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