For several days, the Seine-Maritime department has been playing the proximity card, almost in door-to-door mode, in the Bresle and Yères valleys, in the very north of its territory, thanks to a new vehicle: the 76 Mobile.
This truck has been specially designed to accommodate three dedicated agents on board: a social service assistant, a medical-social secretary and a digital advisor in order to offer the inhabitants of the towns and villages concerned support previously reserved for those not unable to travel to medical-social centers.
On board, multiple procedures, notably those directly linked to the specific skills of the departmental council (RSA, disability, childhood, elderly people, etc.) but not only that, can be carried out directly.
“It is an experiment that we wish to carry out throughout the year and from which we will draw an assessment at the end of 2024, beginning of 2025, before possibly offering it in other territories”, specifies Florence Thibaudeau-Rainot, the vice-president in charge human solidarity within the community.
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Imagined for several months, this new service - for which the department invested nearly 120,000 euros - was inspired by the lessons of the Vaccinobus set up at the height of the Covid crisis.
“The objective is obviously to get as close as possible to the populations to prevent a delicate situation from worsening due to not having been detected in time,” continues the Le Havre elected official.
“It is also a way of preventing the most vulnerable, due to lack of information, from having recourse to the benefits to which they may be entitled.
And there are more of them than you think.
They are often the ones who have the most problems getting around or who especially do not dare to open the door of a medical-social center.
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Approximately once a month, the 76 Mobile will therefore park for half a day in each of the 42 municipalities in the sector with a schedule communicated well in advance.
For Daniel Roche, the mayor of the small village of Saint-Pierre-en-Val where the new system was inaugurated, “it shows the desire to break a certain isolation from which the rural world can suffer.
Several initiatives, also supported by the community of municipalities or the France services houses, are moving in this direction and complement each other.
For our citizens, it’s a plus.”