Time for You

Good Practice

Equality, Health

Leisure activities for people with disabilities and breathing time for caregivers.

Barcelona City Council

Spain

Local policy

POLICY OBJECTIVE

Provide quality leisure opportunities for children, young people and adults with disabilities
Provide free time for families in caregiving roles

CONTEXT

Temps per a tu, a time use initiative, was launched in 2011. Since 2013 it has been managed by IMPD and seeks to mitigate the effects of lack of time among caregivers caring for functionally diverse people.

Such effects include physical and emotional burnout, economic burdens and missed opportunities in education, work and participation in social and leisure activities.

POLICY DESCRIPTION

A service to foster quality leisure time for children, youth and adults with disabilities and, at the same time, promote families’ work-life balance.

KEY ASPECTS

Make it easier for families to access services by organising activities at nearby facilities (social centres and libraries, among others)
Provide participants with a moment of leisure and the rest of the family with breathing time with morning and afternoon activities scheduled weekly or bi-weekly (on Saturday)

RESULTS

2,200 people have used the service since it started
215 annual users, average

(Updated 1 January 2022)

Good Practice

Time for You

Barcelona City Council

POLICY OBJECTIVE

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POLICY DESCRIPTION

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Policy's Website

Assumpta

Soler

Head of the Strategy and Coordination Department, Municipal Institute of People with Disability

The Time Use Initiative has been awarded by

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