The Health and Social Consortium of Catalonia (CSC) is a public and local associative base entity founded in 1983. CSC has a clear vocation for service and promotes excellent and sustainable health and social models to improve people’s quality of life, offering valuable services to their partners. CSC wants to be the central reference point for knowledge and capacity for cooperation, influence, and anticipation of the new challenges of the health and social system.

Main Areas of Work

• Elderly
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Mental health
• Public Health
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Social Integration
• Poverty
• Recipients of care
• Foster care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Transformation of care models
• Promotion of systemic change
• Integration of technological tools
• Professional training
• Training of social welfare workforce
• Research and development
• Management of public nursing homes and day centres for the elderly
• Home care services for the elderly and dependent people
• Consulting services and specialised studies for local governments regarding elderly facilities
• Telecare
• Emotional support groups for family caregivers
• Fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering.
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems
• Representing and defending interests of their members