The Conference will be held in the facilities of the Consorci Sant Gregori, a referential organisation giving assistance to the intellectually impaired, established by the Department of Social Action and Citizenship of the Catalan government (Generalitat de Catalunya), Caixa Girona Social Fund and the Private Foundation Joan Riu. The Consorci manage differents services:

The Residential Centre Els Roures was inaugurated in 1992 and belongs to the Catalan Institute of Social Services’ net. The Centre has two separate facilities, the Residence and the Day Care Centre. The Residence Centre has 64 places in two great coexisting units: Roures A (assistance to boys and girls with serious or very serious intellectual disability, with needs of extensive or generalised support) and Roures B (assistance to boys and girls with serious or very serious intellectual disability, with needs of extensive or generalised support and a behavioural disorder).

The users with a serious or very serious behavioural disorder develop some of their daily activitites in the Roure B Unit, since there is a canteen, a stimulation room and an activities room.

The main aim of the services offered by the Consorci Sant Gregori is to assist persons with special needs of extensive or generalised support, over 18, to optimize their quality of life, within their own possibilities, and assisting the individual needs of the person in all of the following fields: physical care, personal care, basic needs, therapeutic needs and occupational needs.

The main educational, therapeutic and/or occupational activities developed in the Day Care Centre, and directed by the several technical personnel, with the support of the Direct Attention Crew (PAD), are, since 2009: basic and sensorial stimulation, hydrotherapy, therapy with horses, art therapy, horticulture, waste management, recycling, physiotherapy, personal care and environment contact.

The Residència Joan Riu assists children and youngsters with a severe intellectual disability, mainly in the Girona region, since 1980. The Centre Joan Riu assists the residential and health needs of the pupils of the Escola d’Educació Especial Concertada, such as their educational needs. Its core objective is to assist globally and to manage the children and youngster home with an intellectual disability and with special needs of extensive or generalised support, under 18 and/or within the educational programme of the Escola d’Educació Especial Joan Rius.

The Centre d’Atenció Especialitzada (CAE, Specialized Attention Centre) assists people with severe and very severe intellectual disabilities, with special needs of extensive or generalised support, over 18 and in school hours. It assists 12 users who receive the support of the Psychology, Health and Physiotherapy Services. Its core objective is to give care to children from families with members with special needs of extensive or generalised support in their very home and to potentiate and optimise their quality of life, within their possibilities, through the choice of a “centre of interest” (art therapy, PC work or social inclusion) that frames annual activities and guides the work that the user has to develop.

The Escola d’Educació Especial Joan Riu is dedicated to educate children and youngsters with an intellectual disability during their school years, mainly in the Girona region, to give an educational answer to their needs from a biopsychosocial approach, as open and functional as possible, giving assistance to both the particularity and wholeness of the child’s needs, such as their social and educational environments.

The CAD (Disability Assessment Service) is a service that evaluates the grade of disability of the person. This acknowledgement, elaborated by a team of professionals (doctors, psychologists and social workers), determines the grade of handicap, mobility limitations and the possibility of a third person being required.

The Area of Health Assistance (Àrea d’Atenció a la Salut) has a multidisciplinary team with own personal and different specialists that offer the following services: nursing, physiotherapy, general medicine, paediatrics, dentistry, neurology, dietetics and nutrition, rehabilitation, pharmacy and chiropody.

The core objective of this service is to provide quality benefits and health supports destined to promote the main principles for quality of life, equality of opportunities and the acknowledgement of the person’s rights. The intellectually disabled with severe physical and/or behavioural disorders require both an integral and specialized assistance. They require models of health care that see the same rights and benefits provided in the public health services like the rest of the community, and they ought to facilitate their universal access.

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The consortium which manages and equipment located in a privileged environment in the heart of the Valley Llémana in nature.