The project runs at CEADAC, Spain's national reference centre for acquired brain injury, in the Community of Madrid. Once hospital treatment ends, stroke survivors, mainly young adults, often find themselves without the ongoing support they still need to rebuild their social and working life, a gap this project is built specifically to close.
The project
Each edition runs for three months, with the group meeting every Monday afternoon for structured sessions, followed by individual coaching with specialised professionals. The programme improves emotional wellbeing and quality of life for stroke survivors, accompanying them as they rebuild their own life plan and supporting their autonomy, community participation and equal opportunities alongside their clinical rehabilitation.
Built on a person-centred approach, the project puts emotional wellbeing at the centre of recovery, encourages peer support and empowerment, and adapts to each participant's own pace and needs. Group sessions, professional support, experiential activities and peer connection work together to strengthen participants' support networks and help them find a renewed sense of purpose.
Who the project is for
Each edition's direct beneficiaries are 15 people, mainly young stroke survivors who need emotional and social support after finishing their clinical rehabilitation.
Its impact reaches further, to caregivers, who build stronger tools to support their loved ones, and to the wider community, which benefits as participants take a fuller, more active part in it.
Project name: KIERO: una vida después de un ictus
Proposing organisation: FUNDACIÓN FRENO AL ICTUS
Area of intervention: Inclusion & Social Development
Country: Spain