Key:social_facility

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Description
Specifies the type of a facility that provides social services Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: social facilities
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A social facility is any place where social services are conducted.

Social work is a profession and a social science committed to the pursuit of social justice, to quality of life, and to the development of the full potential of each individual, group and community in a society. ([1])

Specific examples of a social facility are drug clinics, workshops for the physically disabled, and homeless shelters. There are no restrictions as to who provides the services (this information may be tagged using operator=*).

How to tag

Use amenity=social_facility to label a feature that provides a social service. To capture additional information, supplement the feature with additional tags as defined in this wiki.

Different types of social facilities

Social facilities come in many different types and can be the location of where services are provided or where they are administered from. Types of social facilities are defined by the level of care or service that is provided and whether people reside at the location. To define whom is served by the facility, use the social_facility:for=* tag as described below.

For features/POIs that focus on treatment of specific acute medical conditions, such as those services normally delivered by a hospital, the amenity=hospital amenity tag should be used.

For features/POIs that focus on disaster relief, such as a temporary emergency shelter, it is suggested that the Humanitarian OSM Tags be used. This is still an evolving model and comments are welcome in the discussion page.

Social Facility Value Possible icon Description
group_home Group home.svg A group home is a residence organized around a certain demographic and provides social and medical services, such as leisure activities or meals, and some form of supervision. Examples include care homes for elderly, residences for children/juveniles who cannot live with their families, halfway houses for people with addictions or minor conflicts with the law and orphanages.
nursing_home A nursing home is a facility providing permanent nursing care, 24 hours a day, as well as social and medical services; supporting residents with elementary activities of daily living. Residents include elderly or seriously ill people, and such with physical and mental disabilities.
hospice A hospice is a facility providing both, permanent palliative and nursing care, 24 hours a day, to dying or terminally or chronically ill people as well as support to their relatives. Thus it has a different focus in comparison with a nursing home.
assisted_living Assisted living.svg A residential facility like group_home, but the looked after are more independent (e.g., have own flats). Usually conceived for people with "slight" disabilities. E.g., retirement home for elderly people; often with a nurse available or request and an emergency button installed.
day_care Group home.svg A non-residential facility that provides nursing services on a daily basis to people with specific needs (elderly, disabled), similar to a group_home or nursing_home, however the users spend the night with their families and not in the facility.
shelter Shelter.svg A facility that provides temporary sleeping facilities or refuge from exposure to the environment. E.g., a homeless shelter, Emergency Shelter or Transitional Shelter.
ambulatory_care Ambulantorycare.svg A facility for workers who support the living needs of those who can't fully support themselves; e.g., hubs and administrative offices for home nurses or street workers. Consider office=* if it is limited to the administration.
outreach Outreach.svg A non-residential facility that provides social welfare services such as advocacy, counselling, job placement, veterans services, housing placement, wellness programs, leisure activities. E.g., outreach for veterans.
workshop Workshop.svg A non-residential work facility that primarily employs people with disabilities. Also includes workshops for rehabilitating or juvenile offenders.
clothing_bank A non-residential facility that distributes clothing (often used and donated) to the poor or in emergencies, free of charge or below market price. Please distinguish from regular second-hand shops (shop=second_hand, without social concept) or charity shops (shop=charity, that sell second-hand goods to fund charities).
food_bank Foodbank.svg A non-residential facility that distributes pre-packaged food, usually to the poor, free of charge or below market price. (e.g., food pantry). If the facility only serves prepared meals, use soup_kitchen instead.
soup_kitchen Foodbank.svg A non-residential facility that provides prepared meals, usually to the poor, free of charge or below market price. Other names for this type of facility include meal centre, food kitchen, comedor popular (Argentina), restaurante popular (Brazil), etc.
dairy_kitchen Dairy kitchen, social facility in former-USSR countries that provides free dairy food for certain groups of people, defined by local regulations. May include newborn babies, pregnant women, feeding mothers, toddlers. If the dairy kitchen also sells dairy food it is likely that shop=dairy tag should be also added.
healthcare Outpatient care.svg A non-residential facility that provides limited medical outpatient care such as drug treatment, free immunizations; e.g., a drug treatment clinic. Consider amenity=clinic instead.

Who is served by the facility

The social_facility:for=* tag is used to describe the group of people that is primarily served by the facility.

Examples

The following are a few examples of various social facilities with some basic tags. Additional tags can be added to better describe the feature.

Facility for mentally ill people
amenity=social_facility
social_facility=group_home
social_facility:for=mental_health
operator=NAMI
opening_hours=24/7
Outreach for poor members of community
amenity=social_facility
social_facility=outreach
social_facility:for=underprivileged
operator=St. Martin's Ministries
Homeless shelter
amenity=social_facility
social_facility=shelter
social_facility:for=homeless
operator=Pine Street Inn
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Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
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Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

See also

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