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Collective Sensemaking in La Orotava, Canarias

Within Plena Inclusión's project "Mi casa, una vida en comunidad"

In November 2022, two collective interpretation sessions were held in La Orotava, (Tenerife, Canary Islands) to exchange knowledge and learnings from the narratives, challenges and opportunities identified during the listening process. This space has been energized by Agirre Lehendakaria Center, Probosco and Plena Inclusión Canarias. The sessions counted with the participation of citizens, entities, groups and the Municipality of La Orotava in a space provided by the Liceo Taoro.

 

Mi Casa, una vida en comunidad is a project led by Plena Inclusión in which various local entities participate. ALCk participates together with Plen Inclusión and the other entities carrying out the developmental evaluation of the process since the spring of 2022. The projects seeks a change in the way of understanding care in relation to people with DID, looking for similar deinstitutionalization in this process. The project places special emphasis on local community development, co-produced by people and organizations from neighborhoods, towns and cities, identifying local needs that concern the entire community, and building social innovation responses to solve challenges in each territory of collective way.

ALCk currently supports the process with the developmental evaluation of it, which allows to include both internal and external changes and definitions in the experimentation process in real time, based on the perceptions and barriers identified among the agents involved. Likewise, it allows learning on ways in which these deinstitutionalization processes can be developed and provides new tools in terms of social innovation to the community connector, the person in charge of carrying out this bridging work with local communities.

The objective is that in the coming months new possibilities of connection and work with the community can be generated.