Prevent2 Care Tour
Prevent2Care Tour rewards innovative preventive healthcare associations at the heart of local communities
Alongside Prevent2Care, the Ramsay Santé corporate foundation is turning its attention to associations, with INCO and the Pfizer Innovation France endowment fund. Since its inception in 2019, the Prevent2Care Tour has aimed to highlight and reward associations proposing innovative projects serving preventive healthcare in local areas.
The aim of the Prevent2care Tour?
Identify and reward associations in France's major metropolises that stand out for their ability to invent innovative preventive healthcare schemes and programs, and for the partnerships they forge to carry out their missions.
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A look back at the 6 winning associations in 2023
After receiving more than 100 applications and meeting 29 associations across 6 French regions, 6 associations were rewarded by the members of the regional jury of this 4th round of prevention and health.
- The association Premiers de Cordéefounded in 1999, offers free sports initiation courses for sick and/or disabled children. The association also works with companies, local authorities and schools to raise awareness of disability and change mentalities. In particular, the association finances the "Sport à l'Hôpital" program, which regularly offers free sports introductions in hospitals to provide children with a moment of escape, sharing and entertainment.
- The association Bruno's thumbs up helps seriously ill or handicapped children and their families, by providing them with a range of support: financial, moral (discussion groups led by professionals), administrative and physical (moving house, childcare). The association also focuses on well-being (body sculpting, hair styling, etc.). It is developing a number of innovative preventive health projects, offering brief hypnosis, NLP and EMDR therapies to all children and their families.
- The association Enfance Adolescence & Diabète aims to educate children with type 1 diabetes and support their families and caregivers. Enfance, Adolescence & Diabète trains and informs healthcare professionals and the general public to help children acquire autonomy in managing their diabetes. Its "La Diab'compagnie" project aims to create individualized healthcare paths for young people, particularly those in vulnerable situations. This is achieved by setting up a mobile multi-professional team to be in the young people's usual living conditions, and through 2 programs: the first focusing on training and support, and the second on day-to-day difficulties and solutions.
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The association Jeune & Rose aims to change the way people look at the disease. Jeune & Rose has three major projects throughout France: Les Tétonnantes, a network of young patients helping each other Alerte Rose, a project to inform and mediate with health students about the problems of breast cancer in young women Le Téléton, a breast cancer awareness and health education project aimed at young audiences and those in vulnerable health situations. This innovative prevention project uses humor, the arts and an offbeat tone. This year, Jeune & Rose is developing "Le Pouet Pouet Tour du Télététon", with awareness-raising workshops on the road in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and prevention initiatives in the region.
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The association Alim'Mater federates, informs and trains nutrition and maternity healthcare professionals on maternal nutrition. It advocates the integration of advice on healthy, sustainable nutrition into pregnancy care. " Among its projects, Alim'Mater is proposing the de-siloing of professions around the mother-to-be. Better coordination between midwives, dieticians and the PMI to provide coordinated support for the mother and her baby's future health. This approach also caught the attention of the jury at this stage of the competition in Marseilles ", comments Brigitte Cachon, General Delegate of Ramsay Sante Foundation and Director of Communications, Brand and CSR for the Group. In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, the association is developing "9 mois à croquer", a healthy and sustainable food prevention program for pregnant women in the region.
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The association APESAL has received an award for its commitment to preventive health care and screening for young people, from an early age. APESAL is recognized for its early detection of sensory disorders (hearing, sight), language disorders, oral and dental prevention, and obesity risk assessment, for children in nursery and elementary school in the Nord department. In 2024, APESAL plans to set up a multi-screening truck, also accessible to people with reduced mobility, to organize screening campaigns for young people in rural areas far from health care.