Inclusion, Equality and Social Welfare

The Community Services provide community-based support to persons with disability and their families in Malta and Gozo. The service’s overarching aim is to assist persons with disability to lead an independent life in the community, whilst enhancing the quality of life of both the service user and his or her guardians. It provides services aimed at the individual’s wants and needs according to one’s abilities and limitations, following an assessment and intervention plan carried out before the service commences. The service is offered to individuals being followed by Aġenzija Sapport Social Workers. Eligible individuals referred to the service are those with social issues that needs close monitoring while learning or enhancing new skills to promote participation and independence in the community.

The Drug Addict Assistance may be awarded to a person who is following a drug or alcohol rehabilitation therapeutic program.

In accordance with the requirements of Article 20 of the Social Care Standards Authority Act, Chapter 582 of the Laws of Malta, no agency or public or private entities or any other entity or person that provides a social welfare service, shall provide a social welfare service unless there is in respect of such social welfare service a valid licence issued by the Authority.

An online reporting system which provides a secure and confidential environment where the public can report websites which host online abuse or illegal material.

Aġenzija Sapport offers the service of Sign Language Interpreting for hearing-impaired individuals who use Maltese Sign Language (LSM – Lingwa tas-Sinjali Maltija). The role of the sign language interpreter is to interpret between spoken language (Maltese and English) and LSM, and vice-versa.

This service targets those children and young persons who, for some reason, cannot continue to live with their birth family but who cannot be accommodated within the current provision of out-of-home care because of the challenges they present. These challenges could be related to behaviour, health, disability, addictions, involvement in crime, education or anything else which makes it difficult to provide residential services for them.

The team at Dar l-Impenn is responsible for the provision of a safe and humane detoxification process to individuals with drug and/or alcohol problems.

The Detox Centre aims to engage individuals with a substance misuse problem in low threshold interventions whereby basic medical, social and psychological needs are assessed and the necessary assistance provided.