El Desván Social Coop

A social-intervention cooperative

El Desván Social is a social-purpose worker cooperative based in Madrid and Ibiza. Its team includes family therapists, social workers, educators, and recreation leaders. The cooperative provides psychosocial support to families, schools, social organizations, and small and midsize businesses.

Areas of work

• Families: guidance and psychosocial support for family dynamics; work-life balance; services for people with disabilities; psychoeducational guidance; support groups; conflict resolution; counseling; and family law matters such as divorce, adoption, and guardianship.
• Schools: health prevention, healthy lifestyles, resilience and self-care; equal opportunity; diversity and intercultural learning; reading and writing programs; and recreation activities, social events, and camps.
• Organizations and businesses: personal development, emotional skills, decision-making, communication, work-life balance, leadership, teamwork, counseling, and corporate social responsibility consulting.
• Public agencies: plans, programs, and projects for civic participation.
• Women: empowerment and rights education through women's groups, as well as the Usera Gender Observatory, a participatory tool for examining the lives of women in the district.

Projects and activities

The cooperative runs projects in Madrid and Ibiza. In Ibiza, its work includes social services, civic participation, youth programs, and volunteerism, with activities such as Diverespai and the San José Youth Plan. In Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Madrid, it offers emotional-intelligence workshops, family training sessions, inclusive recreation, family respite, family-and-horse events, open houses, an urban summer camp, and a family school. In Madrid city and the Usera district, its activities include women's empowerment and mapping workshops, local forums, education and equality roundtables, discussion workshops, a radio program, and a family school. The cooperative also organizes solidarity trips to experience other places and share cultures.

Offices and contact

• Madrid: Calle Magallanes 10, 2º C, 28015 Madrid, Spain
• Ibiza: Urbanización Alla Dins, Piso 2º Puerta 235, 07811 Sant Joan de Labritja, Spain
• Usera, Madrid: Cristo de Lepanto 9–11, 28026 Madrid, Spain

Francisco: +34 657 33 73 99. Alcira: +34 658 32 90 85. Paloma: +34 607 48 14 59. El Desván Social: +34 604 82 40 65. Email: eldesvansocialcoop@gmail.com.