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Social/Care Farming in France

June 2007

Draft (V4)

Volume 2 Annexes –

case presentation forms

Gérald Assouline

QAP Château Jail

38570 Theys - France [email protected]

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Farm/project 1 General aspects and history of the project Specificity Associative project.

Hosting permanently handicapped people in a mountain farm It is an animal farm producing cheese and a residence place for 28 autist adults. The farm and the residence are managed by 2 different associations. The residence is mostly funded by the county of Isère. The farm is more or less self-funded (with normal CAP subsidies).

Agricultural component

Cheese and meat productions. 11 ha. 11 milk cows, 6 pigs, 1 horse, 30 rabbits. Other activities are Table d’hote (serves meals), landscape, forest maintenance, education and a selling point.

Social/care component

It works 7 days/week as it hosts beneficiaries in residence. The farm is not a care place. Individualised care is provided in town either at hospitals or private doctors. Working time is adapted to each person according to his/her handicap. People are not contracted: it is productive and occupational activity.

Start and evolution

It started in 1990. The objective was to create the conditions for offering to highly handicapped people stable life conditions. Lack of financial support Opposition of parents and neighbours. Supports from parents, municipality, public support for the residence and the farm, associations, administrations

Activities today Project staff and labour

41 pers = 31 full time pers work at the farm. Porject workers are bouble skilled: technical and social , not medical.

Beneficiairies 28 persons are hosted. 25% are women. All kinds of handicap and disease. Funding

When the farm was set up: 400 000 euros from the county. residence: 180 euros / day/resident paid by the county. Total budget 1.8 million euros. 96% are subsidised.

Economic situation

The farm was reactivated after 10 years of non-activity. The prvalue of hte production is 76 000 euros.The situation is improving.

Effects

Effects on personal and social wellbeing of the users are positive. Better understanding of handicap. Better relation in the village. Positive developing relations with local actors (direct selling, market, delivery…)

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care No enough financial support, lack of time, no specific project has been carried out,

while the activity is well suited for environment and landscape management.

Networking, institutional environment

Strong connections with therapeutic networks, patient associations, disease association (especially Sesame Autism). Negociation with administrations Visit of other farmers. Professional training. Good visibility of the structure. Participates in debates on social farming. The 1st regional platform will happen in this farm.

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Farm/project 2 General aspects and history of the project Specificity Associative project.

Residence and working place for psychicly handicapped people in a re-adaptation place. 20 people in residence. Different working activities (among them: a farm). Milk and cheese goat farm. Created in 1982. Residents are rather young (25 yo in average) and stay approx. 1 year. Residents are not contracted workers. Re-adaptation, re-socialisation project in a natural environment


Goat milk and cheese production. Half of the milk is sold to a dairy and half is processed at the farm. 83 goats on 12 ha of grass. Other activities are :kitchen, building maintenance, laundry, woodwork.


It is opened 7 days / week. The care is not social inclusion , not health. A kind of “medico-social” follow up of the residents. Livng and working place.

Start and evolution

At the beginning, in 1982 , it was a farm hosting people with difficulties. The project suffers from the lack of professional support, lack of financial support. Gets funding from municipality, county, associations, private initiatives.


17.5 staff work there. Residence (6.5), production (3), other working activities (4), management (4). The skills are mainly technical.

Beneficiairies There are 20 residents, 25% are women. They work 6.5 hours a day.

Funding

The budget is 1.035 million euros. 97% correspond to subsidies for residence costs of the users. (from county). And 3% to production sale.

Economic situation

The project allows the continuation of a former farm. But the situaiton has been better in the former years.

Effects

Physical effects: development of capacities, improvement of general health. Mental effects : awareness, enthusiasm, improved Personal responsibility, self esteem, well being. Social effects : better social relations in the farm, team work, discipline to work, autonomy. Better understanding of handicap. Better relation in the village. Positive developing relations with local actors.

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care No enough financial support, lack of time, no specific project has been carried out,

while the activity is well suited for environment and landscape management.

Networking, institutional environment

Limited engagement in local networks, agricultural, social, political (county level).

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Farm/project 3 General aspects and history of the project Specificity Residence and working place for psychicly troubled people in a re-habilitation place. 32

people in residence. Different working activities : Milk and cheese farm, restaurant, lanscape maintenance and other services for wyne producers. Created in 1998. Residents are not contracted workers, it is another system of help and support through work (35h/week).


Cow , milk production and processing. With 42 cows on 65 ha. Other activities : Selling point, restaurant, landscape (for the natural regional park of Chartreuse, grapeyard cutting…


All residents have psychic troubles, are not considered as deficients. Follow up of medical care in town. Work rehabilitaiton

Start and evolution

Started in 1998. The objective was to create the conditions for offering to psychically troubled people stable life conditions. Public support for the residence and the farm, from municipalty and administrations


Social and care activities : 8 equiv. full time Production : 8 equiv. full time Competencies: social , technical (cow, cheese, milk)

Beneficiairies 32 pers. 25% women. They are employed and receive a salary approix. 65% of the minimal wage

Funding

Residence costs are covered by the county of origin of the beneficiairies. Permanent staff salaries are covered by social affairs administration.

Economic situation

Income covers farm running cost (300 000 euros). The economic situation improved significantly.

Effects

Physical : general improvement, Mental : improved personal responsibility, self-esteem, well being Social :relations within the farm, relations outside the farm, team work, autonomy

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Very well suite: landscape management is one of the activities (service). Networking, institutional environment

Strong conenctions with patients assocations. Clearly recognized and supported by public authorities.

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© Didier Ciancia La Ferme de Cocagne, Romans

Farm/project 4 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is a peri-urban farm/garden , near the town of Romans, producing organic vegetables

with contracted gardeners, who are in social re-insertion process. It is one of the 1st Jardins de Cocagne, created in 1994.


Organic vegetable production, open air and glass houses. Vegetables: 15 ha in total. Vegetables : 7,5 ha + 4000 m2 glass houses. Other activity : Pedagogic activity: with schools, family gardens and shared gardens. Landscape maintenance: paths, rivers, parks for local governements


Social inclusion focused : 20 gardeners for vegetables production, 23 persons for landscape, 2 persons in the kitchen. They work 5d/week.

Start and evolution

Started in 1994. “You need vegetables, they need work, then together let’s cultivate solidarity” .


16 persons work in the farm. Social and technical skills.

Beneficiairies 43 people working 26 hours a week.. The work contracts are subsidised contracts.

Funding

Region: 20%, county: 20% , state: 30%, services and products: 30%

Economic situation

This Cocagne farm is one of the less susidised of the region. In development stage.

Effects

Physical, mental, social: positive.

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Funding from the Region to environmental activities. One major activity is landscape

management. Networking, institutional environment

Strong, mainly local networks, agricultural networks, social and political actors

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Farm/project 5 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is considered as a large Jardin de Cocagne , near the town of Chambery. Delivers

some 350 organic vegetable baskets a week. Created by an association in 1996, in bankrupt in 1999 and re-set up afterwards. Contracted gardeners work there.


Organic vegetable production on 3.7 ha (10% glasshouses). Other activities : Hedge plantation, grapeyards winter wood cutting


Inclusion garden , 5 days a week

Start and evolution

Started in 1996. Inclusion project to face un-employment


5 Persons : 2 Technical (production, 1 for inclusion , 1 director and a secretary + 2 visiting psychologists (1 for gardeners, 1 for the staff).

Beneficiairies 23 (potentially 30), 50% are women. Contracted employees. Average age: 33 yo. 26h/week earning 650 euros /month

Funding

- 22%: production - 68%: county, municipalities, Local insertion Plan, region Rhone Alpes - 10% foundations Total budget : 1,5 million euros - 0,5 million euros are self-funded

Economic situation

The situation was worse in the past and is improving.

Effects

Physically, mentally and socially, the effects are positive. 30 to 45% of the gardenrs succeed to find a job or a training project. 70% deeply excluded people pass through insitutions but don’t stay in

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care The region subsidies specifically environmentally friendly practices:

- Hedges, organic practices, short selling circuits.. Networking, institutional environment

Networking is intense: - with other food producers to fill up the basket (fruits, organic bread), - with associations to define delivery points in town, - with members of the associations who help in consolidating the assoc., project and

implement a quality process , - with other inclusion actors, - with agricultural material cooperative, - with wineyards owners for cleaning service. Local visibility is strong.

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Farm/project 6 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is a Cocagne vegetable garden. One of the 1st ones, created in 1995.

235 baskets are delivered weekly, in 20 delivery points. It hosts 25 contracted gardeners. Average age: 35-45 yo. They stay approx. 1 year. 40% of the people get out pf the garden with a job or a professional training programme.


4 ha of organic production (vegetalbes) + Tree nursery, environmental service to municipalities, a kinder garden comes to the farm


Work inclusion 5 days a week.

Start and evolution

Started in 1995. The director created her own job, organic production and consumption, developing direct selling. Main problems : Staff management and turnover.


5 persons.

Beneficiairies 25 contracted persons working 26h/week. Funding

- Subsidies: 74% of the total budget (from ESF, Region, county, social administrations) ;

- Selling: 24 % Economic situation

Not sure tthat the situation is stabilised.

Effects

Positive

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Landscape and environmental services. The area is a maize area, rather contaminating.

The garden is an organic island in the middle. Networking, institutional environment

Engagement in darmers network, other producers to fill up the baskets, delivery points within different kinds of organisations. Support to collective urban gardens set up in suburbs. 1 permanent staff there working with volunteers. Those gardens receive schools.

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Farm/project 7 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is a residence place and a Cocagne garden, affiliated to Réseau Cocagne. Important

public subsidies. Capacity: 15 residents. Most of them are in occupational situation or in professional adaptation. They are with home un-stability problems: homeless, out of prison, out of psychiatric hospital, addicted...


Organic vegetables production on 4 ha.


15 residents. 20 contracted gardeners (only 2 are residents)

Start and evolution

Started in 1997 to help the most excluded people to find stability and work.


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Beneficiairies Contracted gardeners: 20 + 15 residents Funding

Total budget : 600 000 euros - Garden provides 15 % (200 baskets delivered per week) - Social administration (DDASS): 70% - Residents rent: 15 %

Economic situation

Effects

Positive

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care ? Networking, institutional environment

Connection with social actors, Reseau Cocagne, Reseau Jardins Familaiux, Reseau Chantier Ecole.

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Farm/project 8 General aspects and history of the project Specificity Jardin de Cocagne. Small associative organic garden with environmental activity. 80

baskets delivered weekly. Agricultural component

5 000 m2 for vegetable production. Other activities : Gardening + landscape + forest work


Work inclusion , 6 days a week.

Start and evolution

Started in 1994. Improving adaptation and integration capacity of beneficiaries Developing a new production method. Main difficulties : lack of experience and knowledge


Permanent staff: 2 technicians.

Beneficiairies Contracted gardeners: 12. 40% are women.

Funding

Selling products and environmental services + subsidies from municipalities + administrations (local or national) Total budget: 150 000 euros. Self-funding through service and product selling: 10%

Economic situation

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Effects

Physically, mentally, socially: positive. 30 to 40% ge out of the garden with a job or professional training project

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care The demand is emerging, but small municipalities have few money Networking, institutional environment

Strong, local social networks + Réseau Cocagne

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Farm/project 9 General aspects and history of the project Specificity The Jardin system is a Cocagne system, with consumers, members of the association

subscribing for a weekly basket delivery. For this garden , there are some 70 members. Agricultural component

Organic production of vegetables on 2,4 rented ha. The arable lmand worked by this garden is rented to a private owner. Besides vegetable s and eggs production, there is a landscape maintenance activity, sold to municipalities: it is considered as a diversification source, but not a priority.


Work inclusion

Start and evolution

In 1979, psychiatrists wanted to promote social inclusion through economic projects, with psycho-social follow up. The garden was founded in 2001 by an association. When the Garden had been set up, the main goal was occupational with beneficiaries coming mainly from psychiatric hospital. In 2003, the spectrum became broader with also beneficiaries sent by the public employment service. All beneficiaries are trained and oriented before to arrive to the garden. One difficulty for this farm is the decreasing of public support at local level.


2 full time technicians

Beneficiairies 15 contracted gardenrs: half are long term un-employed, half are with psychiatric problems. 10% of the total are women.

Funding

Mainly funded by public authorities and on a limited way by foundations. Members do not come to the garden: it is too far from Saint Etienne (almost one hour driving in the mountains). They get their basket in town at 3 delivery points. - The 70 weekly baskets provide 14 % of the total budget. - 76% of the budget is funded by local and public administrations (county, region, employment service, ESF). This public money amounts 245 000 euros per year. - The last 10% come from foundations.

Economic situation

Difficult

Effects

Vegetable production is very suitable for the kind of beenficiaries working in the garden : it is very concrete, open air, gives short term results and allows to work in small working teams. Like in msot of the gardens, 25 to 30% of gardeners gets back to job or professional training system, not in landscape nor peri-urban farming .

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care The Region mainly funds environmental projects: water filtration and recycling, energy

saving and bird protection. Networking, institutional environment

Local social networks, Réseau Cocagne. Strong local visibility.

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Farm/project 10 General aspects and history of the project Specificity Indiivdual farm managed by a couple hosting handicapped pepople (adults and

children) Agricultural component

23 ha of pastures and animal feed + vegetable production for users meals


Children and adults come for 1 day, every week or two weeks, at the farm, mainly animal farm and take care of animals. So the main issue is animal mediation.

Start and evolution

Before 2000: The main activity of the farm was animal and crop productions. In June 2001, the farm changes its oritentations. The motivations were diverse: - The initial motivation was the will to take care of handicapped people on a farm

and not a specialised institution. - The decision resulted from the synergy between farm and psycho-motricity

experiences. - Another main reason was the necessary diversification of income. - A 3rd reason was to have more free time to do a kind of personal introspective work

to adjust attitudes to the needs of the targeted publics. In this initial stage, the main obstacle has been the lack of financial support.


2 full time persons.

Beneficiairies 120 persons ar received at the farm , 30% are children. And 30 % to 40 % are females. Funding

Half of the budget is under the association care activity. One person is employed full time for the care part. The care activity is subsidised by county and region. Besides this funding, therapeutic institutions pay for the service. They are themselves funded by social and health decentralised administration. Limited funding comes also from private foundations. The other half is under the farm productive activity.Another person is employed almost full time on the production.

Economic situation

More generrally, the planning of the farm is over booked with groups coming at the farm for one day , adults and children. The demand is high. So the economic perspectives of the project should be rather positive but subisidies paying for the groups to come to the farm are decreasing..

Effects

Physically, mentally and socially: very positive.

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Organic farming. Landscape and environment education to beneficiairies. Networking, institutional environment

Involved in animal mediation networks.

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Farm/project 11 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is a residence and working place. Partner in Réseau Cocagne. But no agricultural

production. Mainly dedicated to service selling like green space cleaning, path maintenance, building cleaning, private garden cleaning… It is presented as a family hosting system. Very collective life with the staff. The founder is very respected by residents for his personal engagement and dedication.


No activity in the traditional meaning.


Dedicated to social inclusion for very excluded people coming from street, jail, addictions…). Psychological and therapeutic follow up are carried out in town.

Start and evolution

The assocation was set up in 2002 and the initiative started in sept. 2004.


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Beneficiairies 17 residents. 4 are employed outside, 5 with big difficulties are in occupational activities, 8 are contrated by the structure. Average age: 35 yo. All come from the county. 2 women.

Funding

Rents paid by residents = 15% of residence costs. Service selling = 18% of inclusion costs. Subsidies come from DDASS (social affairs), Justice Ministry, ESF, county and region.

Economic situation

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Effects

It is a very difficult type of population. Nobody wishes to receive them. Effetcs are very unequal according to the profile of people. Difficult to get some distance to assess: the initiative is very young. 4 on 17 are employed in “normal” conditions.

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Important part of the service selling .The project is implemented in a mountain area. Networking, institutional environment

Very connected locally and nationally. The founder was co-founder of Reseau Cocagne. He is an historical personnality in the ‘business’, and also very atypical, considered as too idealistic by other directors.

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Farm/project 12 General aspects and history of the project Specificity It is a residence and working place. Professional readaptation and social inclusion. Agricultural component

28 ha, for animal production, fruit and vegetables, mainly for internal use.


Capacity of 90 residents. With psychic problems. It is a health centre, with care activity (3 psychiatric doctors). Patients are sent from hospitals.

Start and evolution

Started to host patients in 1977. It became a big centre in the region. Hosts people from the county and other counties and regions.


61 Full time. Medical : 12 (3 doctors), professional + social : 40, administrative : 9

Beneficiairies 85. 15 women. Average age: 28-30 yo. 2 kinds of staying: - orientation: from 3 tp 6 months, - readaptation: more than 12 months (average: 18 months) They work 35h/week + lectures + sport + internship outside. No contract.

Funding

Same resources as a health centre, social insurance, social aid from the county.

Economic situation

Seems rather good, and imrpoving.

Effects

Postive. 60% are considered as re-included in work at the end.

Side dimensions and prospects Landscape care Nt a big issue. Talk of buiofuel production (does not seem serious !). Networking, institutional environment

Intense networking, regional and national. High visibility. Good relations with prescriptors (hospitals) and other organisations whcih receive the patients afterwards.

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