Therapeutic activity

Its general missions

The therapeutic project consists of social and medico-social support provided by the care team of the therapeutic center. This support is based on a global approach aimed at identifying, preventing and protecting children with disabilities.

Follow-up work on each child is developed on the basis identified needs, taking into account the wishes and possible limitations of the children and their families. It is part of a dynamic and global process of helping relationships that requires the establishment of mutual trust and the consent of the children and their families.

The Therapeutic Center's support missions are carried out through social action, educational and rehabilitative support that promote the development or maintenance of the child's ability to become more autonomous and to participate in a social life as normal as possible.

The Center thus contributes to the reduction of social, mental and physical handicaps.

Iringa Therapeutic Center

The Iringa Therapeutic Center takes care of 40 physically and mentally handicapped children between the ages of 0 and 16 living in the Iringa district. The children and their families are welcomed and taken care of by the care team during the day, once or several times a week, in the premises of the therapeutic center or in their homes. Interventions can also be carried out in the child's various living areas (care facility, school, etc.) according to the needs identified.

• The doctor of the therapeutic center receives each child and his/her family, makes diagnoses and defines, in consultation with the team of therapists, the needs and actions to be implemented to ensure the follow-up of the children.
• The team of therapists (two educators and one reeducator) accompanies and supports these children on an educational and reeducational level.
• This support is carried out within the framework of an individualized care project for each child and aims at assisting, maintaining and stimulating his/her physical and mental capacities, socializing him/her and providing overall psychological and social support in order to contribute to his/her well-being.

All the missions of the service are based on humanistic values of respect, confidentiality and ambition for the child, as well as on the conviction that we do not change the other, but that we can offer him/her an environment that is more conducive to the development of his/her abilities and his/her blossoming.

The objectives of the care

The team intervenes with the child, but also with his family in order :

• To improve the potential of the child who, more often than not, is not in school or is in school with social difficulties and a deterioration of self-image. Some children may have developed psychological or behavioral problems as a result of this situation. In this case, the objective will be to improve the skills of the child in care so that he/she has more self-confidence and to listen to and support the family who often suffers because of the social context.
• To give the children the possibility of being outside, to propose interactions with the adult, so that they can take pleasure in moving and communicating.
• To bring them more physical comfort through massages, relaxation and activities.
• To stimulate them physically, to develop their curiosity and their appetite to do it with pleasure.
• To give them more autonomy through play and interaction, to stimulate the development of their skills and learning abilities, to provide them with orthopedic equipment to facilitate their mobility.

Specificity of the project

It is based on a flexible and modular organization, personalized, with interventions in the environment of the child and his family centered around multiple educational supports, re-education, support to schooling, to parenthood, by adapting the actions to the rhythms and the needs of the child and also the possibilities of his family.