Education Action Residential Centre (CRAE)
CRAE (Education Action Residential Centre) is a service born from the need to help children and underage young people who are in the care of the DGAIA (Director General for the Care of Children) and who have to be separated from their family temporarily. Their stay at CRAE lasts until the risk elements that led to their admission are removed, until a foster family is found, or until they have sufficient personal resources to start living independently outside CRAE.
So CRAE, beyond guaranteeing the basic material needs, has to contribute to the process of all-round socialisation and growth of the children that it helps and to do so in a personalised way, promoting their autonomy in a progressive manner and one appropriate to their capabilities.
CRAE is run as an educational project, with an internal set of regulations and an annual programe. The staff is made up of educators and social work educators, and a director who takes responsibility and runs the project with the staff on duty.
As a residential service it is open 24 hours a day throughout the year.
Education Action Residential Centres: