The Rey Ardid Foundation (FRA) is a non-profit organisation that develops activities aimed at the attention, care and integration of vulnerable people, generating services and environments that facilitate greater personal autonomy through an efficient management of the available resources and placing the person at the centre of all its actions.
At Fundación Rey Ardid we have always wanted to go hand in hand with the needs and concerns of the people and companies we serve, which is why we started managing the Professor Rey Ardid Half-Stay Unit in 1991 and as a result of deepening our understanding of the needs of people with mental illness and their families, we have been extending our network of resources with day centres and rehabilitation programmes, supervised flats, training centres, employment agency.
All these resources are aimed at accompanying people with mental illness and their families. Over the years we have broadened the group we work with, also attending to people at risk of exclusion and people with with disabilities. We believe in the capacity of each person to develop to their full potential and contribute value to society. Our mission is to promote their abilities to achieve the challenge of having a useful, dignified and happy life. Today, for example we can say that through our employment agency, we have helped around 18,000 people to get training and improve their skills in order to find a job. In keeping with our aim of helping the most vulnerable people, it is now more than 30 years since we also began to manage nursing homes for the elderly.
we started to manage residences for the elderly, and today we manage 17 centres as well as home services. The elderly, as well as people affected by mental illness and people at risk of exclusion, have been the focus of our work for years.
The Foundation's main areas of work are the following:
1) Mental Health
2) Elderly people
3) Training & Employment
4) Social Enterprises: Insertion Companies and Special Employment Centres.
5) Volunteering
There are currently around 2,000 people working with the different profiles we work with, where we can highlight a volunteer team of around 100 people, including local and European volunteers. We also usually have around 20 students on internships throughout the year, both at regional and European level, as we participate as a host entity in several KA1 projects of the Erasmus+ programme.
It should be noted that the Foundation has participated in several Eramus+ and Creative Europe projects as European project coordinators, as well as participating as partners in several European funding programmes. It also has recent experience in participating in digitisation projects both at national and international level, such as the participation as partners in the DIGISEM project. The digital transition is a strategic line within the Foundation.