Instituto Valenciano de Servicios Sociales (IVASS)
The Valencian Institute of Social Services (IVASS), with its own legal status, assets and resources, has the capacity to manage the policy of the Valencian Regional Government (Generalitat Valenciana) in the fields of: social welfare, elderly people, dependency and care of people with intellectual disabilities.
It provides assistance and acts in terms of social services and socio-health care; in addition, it protects, safeguards and guardianships persons with judicially modified capacity whose attribution are with the Generalitat Valenciana itself.
IVASS has more than 30 daycare centers, residences, occupational centers and sheltered houses, where its 800 professionals such as, physiotherapists, psychologists, nurses, carergivers, occupational therapists, social workers, and so on, who dedicate their efforts to the attention and care of 1.200 people with social care needs, it provides them, in a participatory manner, the necessary support for their integral development with quality service.
At IVASS, as a public entity, we work to consolidate a Quality Service, where ethics, the protection of the rights of our users or those who may request our services, and transparency, are the basis of the Commitment to improving Quality of life. Dialogue and mediation as communication tools are the pillars of IVASS; they are combined with the value of learning how to innovate.