Community Centres

What are Community Centres?

Community Centres are first-contact services that provide all-round support to the residents of their municipality, through a full range of services aimed at fighting poverty and social exclusion and at promoting employment.

Community Centres are open 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and their hours may extend beyond 5 p.m. During opening hours they remain open to the public, with at least two members of staff present, one of whom is a social worker.

What do they do?

A) Core tasks: 1) receiving, informing, registering and supporting citizens as they join social programmes, and 2) working with services and organisations to connect citizens with them and refer their requests, and working with the local labour market to promote the employment of unemployed people.

B) Indicative tasks: 1) carrying out actions that improve citizens’ standard of living, and 2) the social inclusion of citizens, including counselling and psychosocial support.

The legal framework for Community Centres is Article 4 of Law 4368/21.02.2016 and Article 2 of Joint Ministerial Decision Δ14/15834/237/08.04.2019 (Government Gazette 1344 B).

Which Community Centre serves me?

The table below lists the Community Centre that serves each area. Type your region or municipality in the search box above the table to find the address and contact details of your Community Centre. Region, municipality and street names are given in Greek.