DRAC/ Regional Direction of Cultural Affaires

This is a national program created in 1999 and developed in Occitanie within the framework of a partnership agreement "Culture santé handicap et dépendance" between the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) and the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (DRAC). Its objective is to encourage health and medico-social establishments to develop a cultural policy, thanks to the implementation of two annual calls for projects: 1) health culture for health establishments; 2) cultural activities for disability and dependency implemented in medico-social establishments. This programme is concretized by a partnership signed between a cultural structure and a health establishment or a medico-social structure of Occitanie with public status, private health establishment of collective interest (ESPIC) or association. Social establishments and private establishments are eligible only if they are associated with a main establishment, itself eligible, which will be the project leader. By responding to the annual call for projects, the establishment can obtain a maximum of 60% of the total amount of the project that it will be able to develop for the benefit of patients or residents, their families, visitors and staff of the establishments.