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Numerous local initiatives have been launched in the last ten years
in the main cities
of France. The objective is to set up Ambulatory Services of Social
Emergency
« S ervices AM bulatoires d' U rgence
Sociale » on the model of samusocialdeParis.
These initiatives can be organised in different ways: in terms of
annual or seasonal activity, as well as human, material and financial
means. Nevertheless, all of them have mobile teams who go towards
the people in the street to offer them assistance that can be moral
(create bonds), psychological, social (information, orientation),
bodily (first medical care) or material (food, emergency shelter).
The Federation Nationale des Samusociaux - i.e. the National
Federation of Samusocial organisations - was created in March 2001
in order to federate, represent and assist in the action plans across
France. It is integrated into samusocialInternational.
A NATIONAL UNION FOR HOMELESS
PEOPLE
To date, the Federation numbers around sixty members spread over 40
Départements.
In many medium sized cities, volunteers or Samusocial professionals,
who are often members of the local delegations of the French Red Cross,
cruise the streets to bring assistance to the most disadvantaged people.
In this context, the Federation has the following missions:
making its members evolve towards an adequate level of “minimum
quality” which define the action of a Samusocial organisation.
The criteria for quality (basic principles, material and human means,
ways of working, partnerships, …) are developed by the Charter
of the Federation;
accompanying the development of new plans;
proposing training modules, as well as exchanges of staff;
being a relay in the exchange of information between the different
members (Le “Journal de la Fédération”
- The Federation Journal) and also between the national authorities
and the members;
organising discussions on the current problems;
setting up common tools, in particular a common computer access
to qualitative data collected on the field;
achieving surveys on exclusion on a national scale to monitor
the social situation in France and, hence, be able to make concrete
propositions to fight effectively against exclusion and precariousness.
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