social integration:
personalised support
- InfAsis Service
DESCRIPTION
The InfAsis Service provides information and support through an agreement signed between the Department for Human Rights, Employment and Social Integration and the Association of Gays and Lesbians-Gehitu.This service aims to normalise the situation of homosexuals and at the same time provide support and guidance for those people who have problems with their sexual orientation or gender identity.
TARGET GROUPS
Homosexuals and transsexuals
Anyone who requires information, guidance or emotional support to help them with problems regarding their own sexual orientation or gender identity.
Friends and family
Support for their closest relatives (father, mother), which is a group that usually worries the most about their children's homosexuality and has the most problems coming to terms with it, and for their immediate social circle (brothers and sisters, friends, spouse...). This would aim to provide information and help them to tackle a situation properly which they feel they don't know a thing about and that they lack the resources to deal with.
Other groups
All those groups that need this: schools, leisure groups...
Specific cases
Teachers, the workplace, people who are HIV positive, transsexuals...
SERVICES
Information
Legal, sexual health, leisure and free time...
Documentation
A collection of documents is available to anyone who is interested. It consists of books, magazines, press, videos, newspapers and periodicals... that covers subjects such as lesbianism, homosexuality, sexual diversity, history of homosexuality, sexual psychology...
Reception
The basic functions of this area are to attend to and channel the expectations and questions that gays, lesbians or transsexuals raise when they come into contact with the centre and/or other homosexuals for the first time. They would be referred from this area, depending on what they require, to other departments in the centre.
Orientation
This would cover needs for support and guidance, and would tackle the situation of those people who are not sure about their sexual orientation, who feel confused or who have problems with it. This support and guidance work is carried out at a primary care level and establishes channels for referring those cases that may require more specific professional treatment.
Mutual Aid Groups (G.A.M)
Their aim is to create a group framework through which problems can be shared, people can become aware of the difficult situations and experiences they have gone through regarding their own homosexuality or transsexual identity, and the most common problems can be clarified.
FINANCING
This service is financed by the Department for Human Rights, Employment and Social Integration.
CONTACT
GEHITU
Arrasate 51, 3º Dcha.
20005 Donostia
Tel: 902 200 096
Fax: 943 468 516
E-mail: info@gehitu.net
www.gehitu.net
