Caring Housing Strategies
Introduction
Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo (ABD Group) is a Spanish NGO declared of public utility[1] that, for more than 40 years, has been working to reduce inequalities and social and health vulnerability. Through a wide network of services and programs, it intervenes in different areas of social action, such as care for drug addiction, mental health, childhood, family, gender equality, dependency, intellectual disability, poverty and social exclusion. ABD has offices in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Castilla y León, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Valencia and Madrid. According to the 2023 activity report, ABD has 2,038 employees throughout Spain and 562 volunteers.
History
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El Grupo ABD nace en la década de los 80, cuando el consumo de drogas y la pandemia del sida hicieron estragos entre la población joven. En este contexto, un grupo de profesionales y voluntarios/as, sin adhesiones políticas ni confesionales, se organizaron para dar atención a este fenómeno tan destructivo.
1980: its beginnings
In the 80s, coinciding with the explosion of heroin in Barcelona, a group of young professionals and volunteers began to respond to situations derived from drug consumption, which wreaked havoc among the young population.[2].
1990: spearhead of social intervention
In 1990, this group gave rise to ABD, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, expanding the intervention to situations of social exclusion. With an eye toward the community, people are cared for in a transversal way, taking into account the individual, the family and their environment.
In this decade they focused on detecting needs and developing social intervention projects. At this time, Energy Control, its risk reduction program for drug use in leisure spaces, and Preinfant, a child abuse prevention program, were born. They also began intervention in drug-dependent people in extremely marginalized areas.[2].