Amsterdam Research Institute for Societal Innovation
Projects
9 Results
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Community Care conducts research on the project “Jong + Oud = Goud” of Stichting SeniorenStudent
2 Mar 2017 - 1 Mar 2018In 2015 and 2016, Stichting SeniorenStudent connected over one hundred elderly people and students. These citizens of Amsterdam were introduced to each other based upon shared interests and spent a few hours a month ...
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Effective Reflection
1 Mar 2017 - 1 May 2018The quality of the application of interventions in children’s services and child protection is associated with the outcomes of these interventions. One way of improving the application of interventions is by ...
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Research in to loneliness amongst the elderly
1 Aug 2016 - 1 Aug 2017The research group Community Care at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences has a few streams of knowledge: informal care, social inclusion and network development. This research is mostly part of the latter ...
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Young carers
1 Jun 2016A young carer can be defined as a person aged 5-25 whose life is affected by a disability or illness of someone in the family. The young carer may provide physical and/or emotional care but does not necessarily have ...
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Safeguarding Young People in Care
1 Sep 2015 - 1 Sep 2018Many (future) professionals working in residential care or with foster parents find it challenging to talk about the sensitive subject of relationships, intimacy, and sexuality.
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Good Practices Debt Services Amsterdam
1 Oct 2014There is as yet still little evidence-based knowledge about effective support in the world of debt services. By obtaining greater insight into what does and what doesn’t work, the effectiveness of debt services ...
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Arts and social inclusion of persons with disabilities
1 Sep 2014Whether recovering through creative therapy, reintegrating the work force through creative workspaces, or making art professionally, being creative can have a lot of benefits for people with disabilities. Be it using ...
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Developing the talents of young people in vulnerable situations (RAAK-PRO)
15 Feb 2013 - 5 Jun 2015In our society, success in life increasingly depends on people making the best possible use of their own talents and their own efforts. Talent programmes are used to help developing the talents of young people who ...
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Diversity and Informal Care
1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2019Since 2012, the research group Community Care is working on a project called Diversity and Informal Care. This project refers to and describes the possible differences between several groups of people with regard to ...