WHY, incresing the number and problems ?...

homelessnesS is a real structural society's malaise symptom .

Homeless people living in severe & chronic social - physical - psychical precariousness is as a symptom of the malaise of our society and a permanent injury to democracy, to fundamental rights and social cohesion.

It is a process, that needs of time - repetition – addiction of lacking.

ETHOS classifies homeless people according to their living situation:

• rooflessness (without a shelter of any kind, sleeping rough)

• houselessness (with a place to sleep but temporary in institutions / shelters)

• living in insecure housing (threatened with severe exclusion due to insecure tenancies,
eviction, domestic violence)

• living in inadequate housing (in caravans on illegal campsites, in unfit housing, in extreme
overcrowding

-   700,000 homeless people in Europe. (2021)

-   “a home for all by 2030”   : the EU has launched the European platform on
     combating homelessness !...

-   “the most extreme form of social exclusion”..... is homelessness
     declaration of Nicholas Schimdt EU Commissioner

HOME sweet home : missing or is not sufficiently emphasized the affective dimension, because even in an unhealthy house you can live very strong and intense emotional relationships that allow will grow strong and healthy.

mental health as an integral and essential component of health, indeed, there is no health without mental health. Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders.

The WHO constitution states: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.

In this positive sense, mental health is the foundation for individual well-being and the effective functioning of a community.

More than 450 million people suffer from mental disorders. (WHO 10years ago)

More than 970 million 1/8 people suffer from mental disorder (WHO 2020)

Many more people have mental problems.

Mental health is determined by socio-economic, biological and environmental factors.

The vulnerability is not a characteristic of homeless but of person everyone has his Achilles heel but not all of them are injured.

Q U E S T I O N S : about EMERGENCY SERVICES are the interventions

integrate social & health ? . . . ,

coherent with real request of person in need ? . . .,

respectful of the dignity ? . . . ,

accessible to marginalized and excluded people ?...,

are sufficient and adequate services in emergency center?