- Madrid City Council will create the first Independent Living Office for people with disabilities at the beginning of the year.
Madrid | December 21, 2021
The Councilman delegate of Families, Equality and Social Welfare of the Madrid City Council, José Aniorte, visited this Friday the headquarters of Envera to see first hand the care services and job placement that Envera offers to people with intellectual disabilities through its Early Care Center and Neurodevelopment, Training and Occupational Center with Residence.
Accompanied by Envera's president, José Antonio Quintero, and its general manager, Enrique Grande, Aniorte talked with Envera's professionals and beneficiaries to learn about their needs and the activities they carry out, such as personalized treatments for 200 children with developmental disorders, the training programs in which 30 young people with disabilities are prepared to enter the labor market or the occupational workshops in which the 48 residents of the Envera Building participate.
In addition, the head of social policies of the Madrid consistory has participated in a special program of Radio Terrícola in which the residents of Envera have asked him about various issues such as the accessibility of some streets and parks in Madrid.
Aniorte has highlighted "the excellent care that Envera offers to people with intellectual disabilities" and announced the launch "in a few weeks" of the first Office of Independent Living of the City of Madrid.
Today I checked out the excellent care that @Grupo_Envera_ provides to people with #IntellectualDisability.
Administrations must also join this effort, that's why soon @MADRID will have the first Independent Living Office for this group #OVIDI pic.twitter.com/S5WoWFOOlP
- Pepe Aniorte Rueda 🇪🇸 (@AniortePepe) December 17, 2021
With this resource, people with disabilities will receive counseling to improve their autonomy in all social and personal aspects of life such as access to employment, housing or leisure.
About Envera
Grupo Envera is a non-profit organization founded 45 years ago by Iberia employees, parents of people with intellectual disabilities, whose transparency is accredited by the Fundación Lealtad, and which serves about 5.5,000 people with disabilities in its early care services, neurodevelopment for children and youth, training, job placement, occupational and day centers, residences and guardianship; it employs more than 800 people in its special employment centers and prepares more than 300 athletes (it belongs to Special Olympics); it has the support of 250 volunteers and has a hundred collaborating entities. The following are patrons of its Tutelar Foundation: Iberia, Airbus, Unisys and Hilario Alfaro (president of Madrid Foro Empresarial). It has centers in Madrid, Colmenar Viejo (Madrid), Barcelona, Malaga, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and Inclusion Points in Madrid, Pozuelo and El Prat.
Among its recognitions, it has the Gold Medal of the City Council of Colmenar, the Justice and Disability Award granted by the General Council of the Judiciary; the recognition of the international conference Zero Project on behalf of the Government of Spain for best practice in sustainability and inclusion; Award of the 13th Global CSR/Sustainability Week 2021; the 2019 National Award for Excellence in Labor Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities, and Sustainable Business 2018 in the Influentials Awards of El Confidencial.
Envera leads the CSR table of Madrid Foro Empresarial and works on Corporate Social Responsibility as a strategic element of competitiveness and differential value in the customer experience, impacting 11 of the 17 SDGs of the UN's 2030 agenda.
