GXC Online Speaker - Goncalo Henriques

Gonçalo Henriques

Gonçalo Henriques, psychologist, coordinator of the Lisbon Municipal Emergency Shelter – Associação Ares do Pinhal, has been working in non-governmental organizations in the sector of health with homeless people for the past 20 years. He is responsible for the health services of this facility and coordinates a multidisciplinary team of psychosocial support technicians, social workers, psychologists, nurses and doctors, also providing a pilot drug consumption room (ECAD), alongside with an Alcohol Managed Program, exclusively for the residents of the shelter, with total capacity for 126 people, including 26 for women and 8 for couples. Currently taking part in a research group on the Diagnosis of the Health of Homeless People in Lisbon.