HERO Housing Project

The main key word in HERO is HOUSING. In HERO “HOUSING” means the process of social inclusion of people who experience serious mental disorders. For HERO “Housing” is more than a supported apartment, it is a system of social facilities into a network of human relations in a safe neighbourhood. HERO is a transnational project that aims to provide:

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propriate for all interlocutors, that circulates among all the actors involved in the different stages of Housing;
A flexible educational model for Housing, addressed to local communities, developed starting from the experience of those that are directly or indirectly involved with housing. HERO is concerned with the education and training of civil society, socio-sanitary staff, volunteers and adults with experiences of severe mental issues. Target of the project are local community actors where Housing is active or can be activated: civil society, volunteers, professionals, users and families. The methodology on which the project’s activities are based on deals with welfare Co-production, Empowerment, Recovery.