Working for and with young people: An Open Municipal Centre Project (PROA Plan)

Abstract

The Open Municipal Centre (OMC) of Matadepera gives to young people and their families the socio-educational attention to develop their welfare and to provide possibilities for them to socially integrate into their communities while guaranteeing equal opportunities and their full participation in the municipality. Likewise, OMC wants to be a space of prevention and detection of social vulnerable situations and to encourage families to establish ties with standard social network. In this way, OMC serves families with social and economic difficulties that may hinder social integration process of children. 

This paper presents the OMC project and their professionals’ strategies to answer social, educational and integration needs of young people and families of the municipality. Here, interdisciplinary work between administrations to answer municipal needs is very important. Therefore, OMC project comes up to answer aims of PROA state plan, also organized their strategies around priorities that Barcelona Provincial Council and Local Corporation have described. OMC is a good integration experience of social policies that give answer to social and educational needs in the local context.