Support Organisations in France
Please note: This is not an exhaustive list, and will be added to over time. Also, Evenbreak has not vetted these organizations, so this is not an endorsement; just a list of organizations we are aware of. If you have any feedback about these organizations, or know of any that we have missed, please let us know at info@evenbreak.com
National Support Organisations
ANAE
ANAE is an association whose mission is to make vacations accessible to everyone, particularly people with disabilities (all disabilities and levels of autonomy combined).
APAJH FEDERATION
Created in 1962, APAJH, Association for Disabled Adults and Young People, is an activist and management association. It is the first organization in France to consider and support all types of disabilities: physical, mental, sensory, psychological, cognitive, multiple disabilities, disabling health disorders, etc. APAJH Federation, which has 14,000 employees, advances thinking and action to ensure that everyone has equal access to rights (right to school, right to professional life, right to social and cultural life, etc.). Present in 91 departments, it supports more than 30,000 people with disabilities, children and adults, in more than 650 establishments or services. Three principles guide its action: secularism, solidarity, and citizenship.
APF France Handicap
We are an association that brings together people with disabilities, their families and able-bodied people in solidarity. For 90 years, we have been defending the rights of people with disabilities and their families, fighting against the discrimination they suffer, and supporting them on a daily basis in all areas of life (accessibility, education, employment, health, etc.), throughout France.
https://www.apf-francehandicap.org/
Autism France
Around one million people live in France with an autism spectrum disorder, but many of them still do not have the right to a diagnosis and to scientifically validated educational interventions throughout their lives. The response to their specific needs, based on a demanding autism quality framework, conditions their life among others and support for families. The association advises and helps families, disseminates up-to-date information on autism, and its representative’s campaign in local and national bodies to defend the rights of autistic people. The network of partner associations, bringing together around 10,000 families, supports them concretely by offering administrative and educational assistance services thanks to family expertise.
https://www.autisme-france.fr/
Cesap
Cesap is an association under the 1901 law recognized as being of public utility, created to meet the needs of families with children with multiple disabilities. Since 1965, Cesap has been built and innovated to meet the support needs of disabled people and their carers. Cesap’s territorial anchoring is organised around six territorial hubs bringing together its 38 establishments, services, systems and its training organisation.
Foundation Handicap
The Malakoff Humanis Handicap Corporate Foundation was created in October 2013 by the Malakoff Humanis group to seal its historic commitment to people with disabilities. Disability is one of its 4 social and societal commitments.
https://fondationhandicap.malakoffhumanis.com/
Harmonie Mutuelle ESS
The specialist in complementary social protection exclusively dedicated to players in the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). A privileged partner who protects and supports employers and employees on a daily basis in their life journeys.
https://www.harmonie-mutuelle.fr/
LADAPT
LADAPT is an association under the 1901 law, recognized as being of public utility. It supports disabled people in their ordinary struggle, that of their daily life so that we can “Live together, all different, all equal” (Association project 2024-2030).
Le Clos du Nid
Since 1955, the Association Le Clos du Nid has been committed to people, children and adults, with mental, physical and associated disabilities, whatever their nature and degree, in order to provide them with the reception, care, support, social, educational and or professional development they need.
Located in the heart of the Lozère department, served by the A75, the 20 managed medico-social establishments and services offer adapted services provided by more than 1000 qualified professionals. The Association has also been the manager, since 2014 of an Adapted Company. The Association’s website aims, on the one hand, to provide insight into the life of its establishments and services through its news and testimonials from users and professionals, and on the other hand to provide information on its projects in terms of partnerships, innovations and clinical reflections.
https://www.closdunid.asso.fr/
Malakoff Humanis
The Foundation’s aim is to meet the unmet needs of people with disabilities, in addition to the actions carried out by public authorities and all stakeholders. It supports innovative and essential projects across the country, whether they are in the experimental or swarming phase. In ten years, 210 projects have been supported for a total allocation of €20.4 million. The Foundation also aims to be an innovation laboratory within the Malakoff Humanis group, of which disability is one of its four societal commitments.
https://www.malakoffhumanis.com/
Mental Health France
A large number of our fellow citizens may be confronted, at one time or another in their lives, with the reality of mental disorders or disabilities. Mental disorders represent a significant part of health needs both in the register of psychiatric care and in that of support for people with mental disabilities. They touch on essential questions about what man is and the state of the society in which he lives.
National Union of Associations of Families of Head and Brain Injury Victims (UNAFTC)
Parvis is an information and collaborative platform dedicated to acquired brain injury, head trauma and their consequences, designed by the National Union of Associations of Families of Head and Brain Injury Victims (UNAFTC), with the support of its partners.
https://www.cerebrolesion.org/
The French Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted
The French Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted brings together activists, users, professionals and volunteers working together for greater social and economic inclusion of visually impaired people.
The French Red Cross
The French Red Cross is a citizen movement, made up of citizens acting for citizens and with citizens. For over 150 years, its action has been entirely dedicated to supporting all those who are experiencing situations of vulnerability, temporarily or not. “Wherever you need us”, our new associative project sums it up well. The strength of our association is to never consider that there are those “being helped” and those who “help”. We, all together, form a chain of solidarity. People supported today can or will come to the aid of others.
The National Committee for Coordination of Disability Action
The National Committee for Coordination of Disability Action (CCAH) and its members support project leaders in the disability sector with the aim of improving the daily lives of people with disabilities and promoting living together.
The CCAH draws on its expertise in the sector to support and finance projects, offer training and advice to organizations involved in a disability approach and develop a national hub for exchanges and sharing.
UNAFAM (National Union of Families and Friends of Mentally Ill and/or Disabled People)
UNAFAM (National Union of Families and Friends of Mentally Ill and/or Disabled People) is a recognized public interest association that has welcomed, listened to, supported, trained, informed and assisted families and those close to people living with mental health problems since 1963. It has more than 14,000 members.
UNAPEI
Families, friends, disabled people, professionals, caregivers, helpers, volunteers… We are all committed to living together, to a united society that respects the differences and free will of people with neurodevelopmental disorders (intellectual disability, autism, etc.), multiple disabilities and mental disabilities.](https://www.unapei.org/actions/accompagner-les-personnes-en-situation-de-handicap/)
UNIOPSS
Created in 1947, UNIOPSS (National Interfederal Union of Private Non-Profit Health and Social Organizations and Works) is an association under the 1901 Law recognized as being of public utility.
