CISTOR Social Partnership Society
District family support centre.
District family support centre.
ABOUT US
We are a non - governmental organization from Torun (Poland) created with a mission of supporting disadvantaged persons in social, vocational, educational and cultural areas.
CISTOR SPS was established August 29th 2006. Since May 1st 2010 we have realised public tasks the city of Torun (according to the Public Benefit and Volunteer Act April 24th 2003), as a successor of CISTOR - the Social Integration Centre that had been led by local authorities from May 1st 2004 until April 30th 2010.
The Social Integration Centre from Torun - CISTOR was one of the first, created in Poland.
We applied innovate ways of dealing with social exclusion by activating our beneficiaries, instead of offering them just social assistance benefits. By using innovate methods we help disadvantaged people become independent citizens included and engaged in social life according to the idea of "civil society".
We mainly focus on vocational trainings and a social activation of persons who are threatened by social exclusion like: homeless, drug rehabilitants, discharged from penitentiary institution, persons in long - term unemployment, people with disabilities.
CISTOR SPS fulfils its aims and duties, initiated by CISTOR, cooperating with national and foreign organizations and institutions.
We help our beneficiaries become independent from social assistance by so-called social employment and a vocational and social reintegration.
Our society property is located on Stokrotkowa Street (that means "Daisy Street"), that is why many names of our projects contains word "Daisy".
ABOUT CIS (Social Integration Centre) - a municipal project
Main goal
To increase chances persons threatened by social exclusion of becoming independent by social and vocational reintegration.
Target Group
- homeless ( realising the Individual Programme of Leaving Homelessness)
- drugs and alcohol addicted (not later than one year after a drug rehabilitation)
- long - term unemployed (at last 12 months)
- inactive and benefiting from a social assistance
- ex - prisoners (not later than one year after discharging from penitentiary institution)
- disabled (with a medical opinion)
Idea of CIS
Legal basis - The Social Employment Act June 13th 2003 which explains the rules of creating and acting of CIS (the Social Integration Centre). It also defines an idea of social exclusion and conditions of becoming a participant of CIS.
According to paragraph 1 of this Act people threatened or affected by social exclusion are not able to provide themselves basic needs. As a consequence they only particularly participate in a family, social and occupational life.
The participation in CIS lasts 12 months (exceptionally extended to the next 6 months). At this time participants are given so-called "social employment" based on "The Individual Social Employment Programme". The programme defines rules of the participation, duties but also forms and range of social and vocational reintegration. Finally, it indicates a person in charge of realising The Programme. The Programme can be terminated if the participant permanently brakes the regulations, due to a permanent absence or an application of the participant.
The participant has provided one free meal every day, personal protective equipment, an accident and pension insurance and social benefit to the amount of:
- 50% of unemployment benefit in a first month,
- 100% unemployment benefit in the next months.
OUR PRIZES AND ACHIVEMENTS
We were rewarded in 2007 by the Ministry of Regional Development for the "Stokrotkowy Dom" (Daisy House") project. Due to receiving the award-statue we are entitled to use title: "The Best Investment in Man". Our project was rewarded among 60 others in a competition organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy called "The Best Practice of European Social Fund" The "Stokrotkowy Dom" project aimed in limiting of the social excluding occurrence. The target group was 56 inhabitants of Torun threatened by a social marginalisation due to unemployment, homelessness, addiction or leaving penitentiary institution.
CISTOR was also rewarded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in the competition of "Good Practice of Active Forms of Help" - 2009 Edition. There were 5 categories, CISTOR was rewarded in "Centre of supporting social cooperatives - a promoter of creating one's places of work by people threatened by social exclusion". CISTOR was given this award for the project called "Ośrodek Wsparcia Spółdzielczości Socjalnej" ("Centre of supporting social cooperatives").
REFERENCES
We were given many references by the institution we cooperate with. Only in 2009 we received great references from:
- District Labour Market
- Shelter for Homeless Men
- Communal Social Assistance Centre from Obrowo, Czernikowo
- Municipal Social Assistance Centre
- Expert - Kujawy Foundation
- Society Supporting Economic Development of Swiecie
OFFERED SERVICES
1. Training services
As a part of a social and vocational reintegration programme for people threatened and affected by social exclusion. The programme is divided into:
- social reintegration part composed of an interpersonal training, vocational advising, a training of economy, the art of make-up, computer training courses, an individual advising;
- the vocational reintegration part compose of a theoretical training + practical training in a specific vocational profile.
2. Cleaning services
We provide a complex service: cleaning indoor and outdoor area, a commercial office cleaning, taking care of green spaces, snow removal.
This service is addressed to private persons, companies and community housing from Torun.
This services are realised by our beneficiaries.
3. Building services
We offer: painting, plastering, concrete works, paving stone placing, demolition of buildings, roofing, floor tiles laying, building partition walls, removals.
Customers: private persons, institutions.
This services are realised by our beneficiaries.
PARTNERSHIP OFFER
We invite all European organisation interested in cooperation to contact us ().
