Correlation European Network

A project by

Co-financed by the European Commission
DG Health

neither the European Commission nor any person acting on its behalf is liable for any use made of this information

Participation of East European members is financed by

Introduction
Many persons in the EU do not have access to basic health and social services. This poses a treat to their own health and well-being and to public health in general. They live permanently or temporarily outside mainstream society, because they belong to a stigmatised group (ethnic minorities, sex workers), engage in unaccepted risk behaviour (drug users) or find themselves in risk situations (youngsters experimenting with party drugs), in which they cannot appeal to the protecting safety structures of mainstream society. They cannot be identified as one group or category of people, but they share a combination of the following characteristics: homelessness, stigmatised (risk) behaviour, low social economic status, social exclusion, illegal judicial status, mobility, migration, part of an ethnic minority group. Many of them are involved in drug use and sex work. The Correlation network will link different initiatives, it will not focus on groups or particular situations, but on the overriding element: marginalisation and exclusion. The overall goal of the project is simple as well as complex: improve the access to services. The partners of the network cover a wide range of backgrounds and activities: National Health Institutes, Research Institutes, grass root organisations, service providers and self organisations of service users. Correlation cooperates with other European networks, transnational bodies, organisations from East Europe and the US. The Correlation network is divided into four different streams. Each stream and the attached expert groups are in correlation with the other streams in order to stimulate mutual discussion , to improve the different results and to pursuit common findings. Make services accessible All streams and expert groups should attempt to have an optimal involvement of service users, as the overall goal: ‘making services accessible’ cannot be achieved without consultation and participation of the target group in question. This means: service providers and service users need to work together on the effectiveness and feasibility of the different activities and implementations. The research stream supports this process by evaluating the different actions, which ensures evident based conclusions. The involvement of policy and decision makers in the policy debate stream increases the impact of the network activities, as their understanding and support on national and European level is of invaluable importance.

We cooperate with:

A-Clinic Foundation

Aids & Mobility

EHRN

EMCDDA

Gruppo Abele

Mainline

OSI

Democracy, cities and drugs (DCD)

INPUD

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