Fondation l'Élan Retrouvé

About Fondation l'Élan Retrouvé

One of the fundamental principles governing Élan's actions is the pursuit, with the patient, the disabled worker or the user, of the highest possible level of personal autonomy and social integration. This principle is based on the exercise of choice by the interested party for one of the programs set up by the association, a choice facilitated by the non-sectorization of the association. This principle of choice allows for the establishment of the foundations of therapeutic work. Throughout all of Élan's establishments, whether they are health or medico-social, tools facilitating the expression of the people welcomed are regularly studied and created, sometimes well ahead of regulatory texts. Thus, at the Center for Aid through Work, a Hygiene, Safety and Working Conditions Committee and a Works Council for disabled workers, which manages the classic missions of a works council, have existed since its creation. Another example: at the day hospital in the 9th arrondissement, a "welcome group" has been running for 4 years: this open space, co-led by caregivers and patients, is for new entrants during their admission. It offers them a secure and defined framework, where they can find answers to the questions they have about the functioning of the day hospital, activities... These are patients who have expressed the desire to freely and often occasionally co-lead this weekly welcome group.