During the year of the health crisis, the 2,310 social centers and the 1,400 social life spaces (EVS) maintained links with 1.8 million and 1 million people respectively, either remotely or by deploying actions outside their walls.
The Federation of Social and Sociocultural Centers of France (FCSF) organized on December 14 and 15, 2021 a national symposium on digital: social centers, "actors of a human digital society".
About a hundred professionals and volunteers from social centers exchanged during two days around the question:"how can social centers build a human and united digital society?".
A guide to digital tools
The FCSF had published in 2020 a guide to digital tools. This guide proposes a non-exhaustive list of free digital tools - or with free versions - allowing collaborative work, communication, creation of supports, document management or project monitoring.68% of social centers offer digital support actions
820,000 people had been seen in 2019 in Social Centers for questions of access to rights.- 77% of social centers had integrated access to rights into a social project orientation or axis in 2019
- 74% of the facilities have a computer with free access and/or support
- 68% of social centers offer digital support actions
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Social centers place the power to act at the heart of their approach
In July 2020, the FCSF adopted a manifesto For a human digital society. Thefederated network of 1,300 social and sociocultural centers in France is ready to mobilize alongside the public authorities to act in the perspective of a human digital society.This proposal urges the network to commit to :- To become more aware of the impact of digital technology on society and its inhabitants, taking into account both the positive effects and the risks;
- Engage volunteers (especially administrators) and professionals in a training and skills development process in order to make digital mediation a transversal skill within all structures;
- Develop, in cooperation with other actors, real territorial strategies to structure quality offers adapted to each context and/or join existing strategies;
- Strengthen social centers in their role as third places, as they are already places where all generations and all socio-professional categories can meet, and which are open to all the themes of life in society;
- To use our practice of popular education, to accompany new logics of learning and knowledge and to allow the emancipation of each one in front of the digital.
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Key figures on social centers
In France, there are 2,300 social centers approved by the CAF, plus 1,300 social life spaces, also approved by the CAF63% of the social centers are managed by associations and 32% by a local authority. 3% are managed directly by the CAF.
They rely on 163,000 volunteers.
The social centers and social life spaces welcome 2.2 million regular users and 3 million occasional users.
The cumulative budget of social centers is close to 1.4 billion euros (for an average budget of 603,000 euros). They are financed up to 47.7% by local authorities, 27% by the CAF and 4.1% by the State.
The social centers are facilities approved by the CAF for the animation of social life.
According to the Federal Charter of Social Centers adopted in 2000 in Angers, a social center is defined as a "center of initiatives led by associated residents, supported by professionals capable of defining and implementing a local social development project for the entire population of a territory.
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