Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo

Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo (ABD), also known as Grupo ABD, is a Spanish non-profit organization declared of public utility. It works to reduce inequalities and social and health vulnerability through a broad network of services and programmes. Its areas of action include drug dependency care, mental health, childhood, family, gender equality, dependency, ageing, intellectual disability, poverty, social exclusion and the fight against climate change. ABD has offices in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Castilla y León, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Valencia and Madrid. According to its 2023 activity report, ABD has 2,038 employees across Spain and 562 volunteers. The organization traces its origins to the 1980s, when drug use and the AIDS pandemic severely affected the young population. In this context, a group of professionals and volunteers, without political or religious affiliations, organized to address this destructive phenomenon. In 1990, this group gave rise to ABD, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, expanding its intervention to situations of social exclusion. During that decade, it focused on detecting needs and developing social intervention projects. Energy Control, its risk-reduction programme for drug use in leisure spaces, and Preinfant, a child abuse prevention programme, were born in this period. It also began intervening with drug-dependent people in areas of extreme marginalization. In the early 2000s, ABD grew significantly through intervention in the field of dependency and older people, with solutions ranging from home care to residential care. This marked a period of growth with more services and a strengthening of volunteering and the professional team. In 2011, the social and economic crisis redefined new profiles of vulnerability and previously invisible phenomena such as energy poverty. The Energía Justa programmes were launched through the Fundación ABD, which was created to multiply its strength and design new responses to growing social challenges. In 2017, ABD began a renewal process, promoting social innovation and creating support networks in Europe and Latin America. In 2022, Grupo ABD took a major step forward in expanding the management of drug dependency care resources with the acquisition of Instituto Genus. This operation strengthened its drug dependency care model, which is key to the organization's origins and is based on comprehensive and community care for people with drug dependency problems and their families. This represented a fundamental step in strengthening the Group (ABD/Fundación ABD/Institut Genus), which currently comprises more than 2,000 people, with more than 1,900 professionals and more than 600 volunteers and collaborators. ABD's vision is to be a promoting entity and reference for a third-sector model characterized by ethical values in dealing with people, groups, communities and administration, contrasted and certified, and a sound economy and efficient management of programmes with public and private funds that allows for social investment. Its mission is to create and manage projects and services centred on people and communities to facilitate empowerment and reinforce their active role in generating social equality and personal and collective well-being. Its values include social commitment and defence of rights, creativity, innovation and quality, ethics, transparency and accountability, pluralism, and professionalism. ABD develops its objectives through its own projects and through the management of public services.

The Grupo ABD was born in the 1980s, when drug use and the AIDS pandemic wreaked havoc among the young population. In this context, a group of professionals and volunteers, without political or religious affiliations, organized to provide care for this destructive phenomenon. 1980: Beginnings In the 1980s, coinciding with the heroin explosion in Barcelona, a group of young professionals and volunteers began to respond to situations arising from drug use, which was devastating the young population. 1990: Spearhead of social intervention In 1990, this group gave rise to ABD, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, expanding its intervention to situations of social exclusion. With a focus on the community, people are attended to transversally, taking into account the individual, the family and their environment. During this decade, they focused on detecting needs and developing social intervention projects. Energy Control, its risk-reduction programme for drug use in leisure spaces, and Preinfant, a child abuse prevention programme, were born in this period. They also began intervention with drug-dependent people in areas of extreme marginalization. 2000: Expansion and growth In the early 2000s, ABD took on the dimensions of a large entity with intervention in the field of dependency and older people through solutions ranging from home care to residential care. This moment marked a stage of growth with more services and a strengthening of volunteering and the professional team. 2011: Challenges expand and responses expand The social and economic crisis redefined new profiles of vulnerability and previously invisible phenomena, such as energy poverty. The Energía Justa programmes were launched through the Fundación ABD, which was born with the aim of multiplying its strength and designing new responses to growing social challenges. 2017: Weaving networks looking to the future They are in a process of renewal, promoting social innovation and creating support networks in countries in Europe and Latin America to weave a more just global society. They are building a common strategy that allows them to look to the future with hope. 2022: Expansion of drug dependency resource management Grupo ABD took a major step forward in expanding the management of drug dependency care resources with the acquisition of Instituto Genus. With this operation, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo ABD strengthened its drug dependency care model. This model, key to the organization's origin, is based on comprehensive and community care for people with drug dependency problems and their families. This represented a fundamental step in strengthening the Group (ABD/Fundación ABD/Institut Genus), which currently comprises more than 2,000 people, with more than 1,900 professionals and more than 600 volunteers and collaborators.

• 2022

  Grupo ABD acquired Instituto Genus, strengthening its drug dependency care model.

• 2017

  ABD began a renewal process, promoting social innovation and creating support networks in Europe and Latin America.

• 2011

  Energía Justa programmes were launched through Fundación ABD to address energy poverty.

• 2000

  ABD expanded into dependency and older people care, marking a stage of growth.

• 1990

  ABD, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, was founded, expanding intervention to social exclusion.

• 1990

  Energy Control, a risk-reduction programme for drug use in leisure spaces, was born.

• 1990

  Preinfant, a child abuse prevention programme, was born.

• 1980

  A group of young professionals and volunteers began responding to drug use situations in Barcelona.

A leading third-sector organization in Spain, recognized for its ethical, innovative and diversified model of social intervention.

• Energy Control

  Risk-reduction programme for drug use in leisure spaces.

• Preinfant

  Child abuse prevention programme.

• Energía Justa

  Programmes addressing energy poverty.

• Instituto Genus

  Drug dependency care resources acquired in 2022.

• SAD Home Care

  Home care services for older people and dependent persons.

• PAD Promotion of Autonomy and Dependency

  Programmes fostering dignified ageing and support for carers.

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