“The Station”. Bridges, tracks, and platforms

Abstract

Innovation in social work with homeless people is the path followed by THE STATION project, which we present to the 13th Scientific Award for Social Work (2019). The social work that we put into practice in our project is a generator of alliances and enables new spaces of intervention, having as an object the autonomy and the relational. The social work of the simple, allied with other knowledge, that leaves the office and overcomes the bureaucracy; an ethical and responsible social work.
It unites socio-educational attention and the dignity of the reception services, the participation of the homeless, the institutional collaboration, the transversality of actions, interdisciplinarity, social awareness, the organizational capacity of the community and the strengthening of the social fabric. THE STATION overcomes biases and establishes a new look towards the homeless, from a social work that risks and looks for answers in the people who accompany, without pushing. A social work that builds bridges and does not submit. A project that aims to be danceable, enjoyable, empowering, and collectively organized and organized. Seek emancipation, rebellion and courage of its participants, the last of society, the homeless.