Opinion

The 2nd Prison Volunteer Meeting, held on April 18 in Barcelona, ​​put on the table a collective urgency: to stop looking at prison only from the perspective of punishment and start talking about dignity, reintegration and social responsibility.

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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promoted a paradigm shift in the field of mental health. At the Via-Guasp Foundation we work to advance in this direction and strengthen professional practices centered on the person.

According to the Eurobarometer published last month, only 11% of Spaniards believe that too much is invested in defense. 

A good example of this real and full participation that we defend is inclusive volunteering, a system in which the person with an intellectual disability participates as a volunteer accompanying people from other groups.

Our function is not to educate, but to achieve spaces of freedom and citizen agency to govern ourselves in a real way. For this we point out the systemic inequalities and show examples of community resilience.

When things go wrong and in emergency situations, volunteers are always there. But it is also there when he repairs the net every day, full of unstitched and more or less visible strips.

Citizen science is defined as an emerging trend in the ways of doing science. Efforts draw on citizens’ involvement in research tasks. This may range from identifying a problem that needs solving, defining research, data collection, data interpretation and transforming these interpretations into actions.