THE ASSOCIATION ALTEA-ESPAÑA FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND TRAINING IN THE SOCIAL ACTION is a non-profit organization, established in June 1996, in which main aims we can find:

• The permanent training of professionals and volunteers that practice their activities in distinct areas of the Social Action.
• The promotion of investigation lines that help to improve the quality of the services dedicated to this area.

Attending to these necessities, our activities are structured as following:
A.CONTINUOUS TRAINING
Permanent actualization of competences directed to professionals who work in the social intervention. We get their certification in cooperation and agreement with the University of Alicante.

B.LABOUR INSERTION
Courses and work-shops homologated by the “Consellería de Empleo” addressed to young people and students in difficulty.

C.INVESTIGATION
Projects of Investigation that belong to programmes of the European Union.

D.INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Activities of Cooperation for the Development.

E.OTHER PROGRAMMES
European seminars and work-shops of exchange of professionals.

F.OTHER ACTIVITIES
Organization of national and international seminars and conferences.


Aims:

1. All the actions that allow the children, adolescents and youths, whatever their origins and conditions are, that suffer or that could suffer social discriminations, to become protagonists in the construction of Europe.
2. The social and professional insertion of disfavoured and emarginated young people.
3. The diffusion of a trend favourable to discriminated youths.
4. The participation of the European residents in the active life of the country in which they are living.
5. The training of the workers and volunteers of the social action.
6. The investigation within the fieldwork of the social action and its publication and dissemination.

CONTINUOUS TRAINING
For the permanent training of professionals;
A) ACTIVITIES ADDRESSED TO PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE SOCIAL INTERVENTION. BY AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE THEY ARE VALIDATED AS CREDITS OF FREE CONFIGURATION

• The Family Sheltering: modalitites and procedures.
• Psichological preparation of the professional that attends the elderly and stress control.
• The family mediation in processes of separation and divorce.
• Family sheltering: New challenges in front of new necessities.
• Sociocultural monitor.
• Project of taking decisions and detection in cases of maltreatment to the infancy.
• Design and advanced methology of projects of social and psicopedagogical intervention.

B) ACTIVITIES ADDRESSED TO THE STAFF OF THE ASSOCIATIONS WHICH ALTEA ESPAÑA HAS AN AGREEMENT OF TRAINING WITH. GRANTED BY THE “CONSELLERIA DE EMPLEO” (MINISTRY OF WORK)

• The association Altea-España manages the Continuous Training of four associations of the Community of Valencia that assist various children in situation of social difficulty.
• Educator of infantile residences – Association Arcos de Altea.
• Integrated service of assistance to the family – Association Emaús.
• The educator of the minors’ centres: tasks, functions and competences. Fundación Relleu.
• Auxiliary of infirmary in geriatrics – Asociación Tercera Edad El Verdader.

C) ACTIVITIES ADDRESSED TO THE STAFF OF THE ASSOCIATIONS WHICH ALTEA ESPAÑA HAS AN AGREEMENT OF TRAINING WITH
FUNDACIÓN TRIPARTITA With the publication of the Real Decree (1046/2003) in August 2003 that regulates the subsystem of Continuous Professional Training in Spain, it has begun a new model of management based on credits that allows the companies to plan and manage the training for their employees in a flexible way all year long without having to be subjected to the short periods that stipulate the annual calls.
Altea-España signed an Agreement of Companies Group with six entities that are dedicated to the social action of the Community of Valencia, in order to organize, manage and realize in a joined way the above training.
According to the necessities of the training stated by the directors, workers and syndical representatives of the six signatory entities of the agreement they have carried out the following courses:

• Control of quality applied to the management of the NGOs. July to September 2005.
• Systematic Intervention addressed to educators of Minors’ centres. July to September 2005.
• Planning / Action applied to the methodology of intervention with minors in Residential Centres. December 2005.
• Management of Groups of social entities. December 2004.
• English for the staff of assistance to foreigner residents in centres and services of the third age. December 2004.
• Computer science applied to the management of the NGOs. December 2004.

LABOUR INSERTION
PROGRAMME OF INSERTION TO WORK GRANTED BY THE “CONSELLERIA DE EMPLEO” (MINISTRY OF WORK) AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND, ADDRESSED TO YOUNG PEOPLE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN DIFFICULTY.

• “Training of Trainers: Educator of Social Intervention”. Course 1997.
• “Training of Trainers: Foster Families”. Course 1998.
• “Educator in Centres of Special Education. Levels 1, 2 and 3”. Courses 1998 –1999.
• “Educator of Centres of Special Education”. Course 2001.
• “Specialized service of family sheltering”. Course 2001.
• “Sociocultural Monitor”. Workshops: 2002 – 2003 - 2004.
• “Office automation”. Workshops: 2002 – 2005.
• “Initiation to computer science”. Workshop 2005.

INVESTIGATION
PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAMMES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – PROMOTERS OF THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS OF INVESTIGATION:
INICIATIVE DAPHNE

• The integration of services in the systems of infantile protection in countries of the European Union Daphne Protinter I – 1999.

PROGRAMME DAPHNE

• Daphne Protinter II –2000.
• Rétablir le lien parents – adolescents – 2005.
• Le syndrome d’alienation parental – 2006.

PROJECTS OF DEBATE AND REFLECTION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF NGOs

• Project of Networks – European Model in Social Investigation.
• Inmigration and Cultural Diversity

PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAMMES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – PARTNERS OF THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS OF INVESTIGATION:

• PROGRAMME DAPHNE – R.E.M.A.T.C.H.
• PROGRAMME LEONARDO DA VINCI – ID FORCE.
• PROGRAMME AGIS – Sport related prevention of youth violence and delinquency.

OTHER ACTIVITIES
ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
CONFERENCES:

• “The procedures of acculturation in the immigrant families” University of Alicante 1996.
• Specialized one day seminars for judges of minors. Madrid 1996.

SEMINARS:

• “International Seminar: European Intercultural Week” Altea, España – October 2000.
• Xª National One Day Seminars of Study of the National Association of family placement” Agen, France – 2001.
• “Intercultural Seminar: Association Creative Hours” Altea, España – 2001.
• “The present and the future of the Social Action” – Association Emaús 25th Anniversary. Altea, 17th November 2004.