Cooperativa Sociale di Bessimo ONLUS

Bessimo is a Social Cooperative funded in 1976 in order to offer therapeutic rehabilitation programmes to drug-addicted

We care about addictions from Prevention to Harm Reduction: 222 people are employed in our Organization.

As a social cooperative, Bessimo is based on member social participation and cooperation: our social assembly is composed by 105 members.
We are a no-profit organization accredited by Lombardia Region for addictions treatment since 2008.

OUR ACTIVITIES
14 residential therapeutic communities: Therapeutic Rehabilitation, Orientation, and Specific Treatments for families, alcohol-addiction and poli-addiction. It can also offer an alternative to prison, such as external criminal enforcement corrective measure.
We offers an amount of 265 credited seats.
– 7 Centres for Males
– 3 Centres for females
– 1 Centre for Single women with children
– 3 Centre for Addicted Couples (with or without children)
1 Educative Residential Centre for children
Social Housing Service
4 Harm-Reduction Services in 4 different cities
1 Risk-Reduction Service operating in night-life
Counselling Service for families, teenagers,
2 Support Service for inmates in Brescia Prisons.

OUR NETWORK
Our Organization is an active member in:

“Confcooperatives” (CONFCOPERATIVE – http://www.confcooperative.it/)
“Host-Communities National Coordination” (CNCA – www.cnca.it)
“Accredited Organization Coordination in Lombardy” (CEAL – http://www.cealweb.org/)
“The Acrobats” Consortium (http://www.smigliacrobati.it/) which operates an outpatient service for people who suffer from problematic use/abuse in gambling, internet, psycho active legal or illegal substances, in Brescia province.
“Prison and Territory Association” (ASSOCIAZIONE CARCERE & TERRITORIO – http://www.act-bs.it/) engaged in activities sensitizing about the issue of detention and in promoting alternatives measures to prison detention.

WHO DO WE HELP?

Drug/Alcohol/Gambling Addicted males or females
Drug/Alcohol/Gambling Addicted couples, even with children
Pregnant single women or single women with children
People with ongoing detoxicating treatment
People covered by substitute pharmacological treatment
Extra-EU citizens, as long as they have a residence permit.
Non-EU residents detained without a residence permit under probation misure.
People who suffer from chronical deseases, if their health conditions are compatible with the development of the therapeutic program
People who are under any limitation of their freedom