Work package 3

Include diversity in co-construction

Addressing gender and intersectional factors, and fighting inequalities in decision-making participation.

This work package addresses the impact of gender and intersectional factors on co-construction and ways to fight inequalities and crises in decision-making participation. DC 8 examines means of combatting stigma and exclusion of mentally ill citizens through community work; DC9 will develop methods to involve people suffering from a range of inequalities in a common co-construction process. DC10 examines the overlapping of gender and homelessness in the process of co-construction, while DC11 will analyze the concept of advocacy of young people and birth parents with child protection experience across various settings.

Within this work package, Nicolas Kalantzakis will :

Use participatory observation methods to analyse the community education, sensitization and awareness methodology applied in EKPSE
Evaluate the potential of community involvement to co-construct preventive actions for mental health and for combating stigma
Examine parameters such as differences between urban and rural areas and cultural implications by comparing Greek regions (Attica, Fokida, Fthiotida, Evros, Rodopi).

This research project conducted by Marco Lupoli aims to :

Co-create service evaluation tools based on dimensions of well-being, empowerment, enabling environment, reinforcement of social ties including within the organisation
Involve all stakeholders including service managers, practitioners and vulnerable people in the areas of child protection, disability, aging, minor refugees, homeless, unemployment
Identify the impact of intersectionality on accessing co-construction within the Salvation Army Foundation.

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Through this research project, Katharina Streicher will:

Identify causes of homelessness among the service users at Dan Church with a specific focus on gender issues.
Conduct an ethnographic observation among homeless citizens
Explore the agency of homeless men and women to make their way out of homelessness:
Co-map the lifelines of homeless people
Include homeless citizens in the co-construction of a sustainable policy development with the local community.

To reach the target objectives of this research, Malena Teufelhart will :

Identify legal and institutional contexts of decision-making, peer support and peer advocacy in child protection
Use qualitative methods to analyze how intersectionality influences young people’s and birth parents’ peer support and peer advocacy in various settings
Establish how peer advocacy influences decision-making at the level of individual interventions, social services and social policies
Assess peer support and peer advocacy practices regarding the well-being of young people, parents and practitioners.

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