Committee chairman: Gabriel Gomes Barros, (0637477160), voorzitter.zorg@dwars.org

Committee secretary: Simon Osnabrugge, (0614157608), secretaris.zorg@dwars.org

Responsible board member: Soesha Sandker, soesha@dwars.org 

Healthcare is upside down. There are huge staff shortages, growing inequality of opportunity is also reflected in healthcare, and while most incomes are falling, healthcare costs are rising fast. DWARS stands for social equality and sustainable solutions, also in healthcare. The Care & Welfare Committee helps in this by formulating the DWARSe sound on these themes (and many more!).

Here's what we do

We are busy with all kinds of iniatives to increase knowledge around Care & Wellness within DWARS and beyond. We want to learn about the issues involved in these topics and explain how they can be solved. We are currently writing an article on drug policy for the paper edition of AboutDWARS for the summer conference. We have also published an article on workload and burnout, be sure to take a look! We also organised a super interesting themed evening together with Gelderland division on abortion rights with MP Corinne Ellemeet and organisation AGM as speakers. Another interesting activity we organised together with DWARS Utrecht on the problems in youth care, with Lisa Westerveld, the Utrecht alderman and the Forgotten Child as speakers.

Get involved!

Do you fancy coming and learning more about this topic? Or help organise super interesting activities? Then come and join a meeting! For questions or more information, you can always send a message to voorzitter.zorg@dwars.org. You do not need to have experience or knowledge of the topics, the committee is also meant for you to learn from. We are happy to think along with you to make the committee as accessible as possible for you!

Next meetings

Will be announced in the whatsapp group in due course.

The location will be announced via the whatsapp group.

The presidium

We are the presidium (president and secretary) of 2024-2025 and would like to introduce ourselves to you.

Gabriel Gomes Barros

I am Gabriel, public administration and law student at EUR. I am an experience expert in youth aid and I work at a GGZ organisation as a client council supporter. In daily life, I am committed to youth participation, youth aid and safe growing up. And now I am the chairman of the care and welfare committee and I would like to invite you to come by sometime and have a chat with me.

Simon Osnabrugge

As a psychology student and former client within the mental health sector, I find mental health care a very important issue. As we have seen during the corona pandemic, general healthcare is also crucial for the Netherlands. I therefore hope that, as secretary of the Care and Welfare Committee, we within DWARS will be able to contribute to this. I therefore hope for a year full of activities, substantive discussions and, above all, fun around this theme!