We got started the needs assessment under the SOLACE CEE project
At the end of February, the team of the Health and Social Development Foundation began outreach work within the neighbourhood to identify families in a situation of homelessness, which were included in the needs assessment under the SOLACE CEE project.
In March, the project partners launched a needs assessment in six languages (Bulgarian, English, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Slovak) among the current and potential clients of the organizations participating in the project. The author of the questionnaires is the Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI).
Our organization identified 40 families in a situation of homelessness from the Fakulteta neighbourhood in Sofia, with whom we are conducting interviews for a needs assessment.
The topics covered by the questionnaires include demographic issues, housing conditions, employment, health status, health literacy, traumatic life events and attitudes towards telemedicine. The study is currently ongoing and we expect to finish it by the end of April. By then, all client questionnaires will be completed and recorded online.
In parallel, we are holding discussions with other organizations from the non-governmental sector within the professional network to identify the necessary steps to establish integrated service coordination and to form advocacy goals.
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