Note : considering the current resource available at Maison Plein Cœur, it is not possible to translate most of the internal documents in English for the moment. However, if you wish to get more information about a service we offer, or for any comment, please contact us.

Social rehabilitation

The services adapted to the social rehabilitation of the people living with the HIV-AIDS offered by Maison Plein Cœur gather around the three following categories:

• the supervised residence
  
• the Roger-Poirier Center
• interventions adapted to social rehabilitation

The supervised residence

The residence includes four supervised apartments being able to accomodate eight people living with the HIV-AIDS. The residents can benefit from all the services offered by Maison Plein Cœur. The residence is a transitory source of dwelling, it tends to be a place of stability, personal reorganization and preparation to the return to the active social life.

The Roger-Poirier Center

The Roger-Poirier Center, formerly called Day Center, is open 7 days per week. The centre daily accomodates around ten people, mainly coming from the gay community. Certain days are reserved there for inter-peer welcome.

Moreover, other times are reserved for group animation performed either by volunteers, or by community workers. The Roger-Poirier Center then becomes a place of discussion, information and reference on a wide variety of subjects which the people living with HIV-AIDS worry about.

Here an outline of some of the covered subjects:

sexual health;	work;
nutrition;	social housing;
medication observance;	professional training;
impacts of the revelation of seropositivity;	disease and care;
return to the active social life;	defense of the rights;
problems caused by lipodystrophy;	therapeutic relation with doctors and health professionals;
community and public help resource networks;	reduction of misdeeds caused by risky behaviors;
mental health disorders;	family and children relations.
leisures and physical activity;

The group of personal development workshops animated by the community workers and of the professionals of health completes the activities of the Roger-Poirier Centre. These workshops are the occasion to look further into questions and to work to give a better control on quality of life.

Here is the list of the last workshops carried out:

• medication observance and quality of life;
• "sex... primer" about sexual health;
• from image... to the word;
• support groups.

The animation of the Roger-Poirier Center, the individualized accompaniment, the activities of connection to the insertion environments and the support to the people reinserted in employment represent the principal aspects of the social rehabilitation services for people living with the HIV-AIDS.

More specifically, here are some examples of projects of social rehabilitation brought on by Maison Plein Cœur and its partners:

• Nouveau Départ project, aiming at clarifying the socio-economic implications of the return to the active social life;
• self-evaluation exercise based on life habits;
• designation of partners for supporting people in order to acheive the identified objectives;
• demystification of the administrative aspects implied while returning to work or to school;
• help with housing access or search;
• support to people already in employment;
• participation at various committees.