The ASPAYM Castilla y León Foundation began operating in 2004, twelve years after ASPAYM was founded in the region of Castilla y León. Castilla y León region. Its main objectives are to promote autonomy, equal rights and opportunities and improve the quality of life of people with physical disabilities, allowing them a meaningful integration into society. In addition, ASPAYM CyL seeks to be a leading association, providing its target users with the tools to achieve that mission. This goal is achieved through the quality of its programs and activities, research and the appropriate use of new technologies.

ASPAYM CyL has a youth department focused on activities with young people. This department is an active member of the Regional Regional Youth Council of CyL, and it is also part of the Permanent Youth Council of the Province of Valladolid, where ASPAYM is a member. We are also part of the network of youth information points in the province of Valladolid, which makes ASPAYM the only youth organization with the only entity of young people with diversity that complies with all of the above.

The organization, and also the youth department, has offices in different cities, with special emphasis on rural areas. in rural areas. It includes Ávila, Burgos, Camponaraya (León), Cubillos del Sil (León), León, Matapozuelos (Valladolid), Palencia, Paredes de Nava (Palencia), Segovia (Segovia),Valladolid and Villadiego (Burgos).

The youth department of ASPAYM CyL develops a multitude of advocacy activities, non-formal education, employment, years of experience and multiple awards, as well as the awareness project «Ponte en mis zapatos» (Put yourself in my shoes), whose main objective is the standardization of disability in schools, community centers, youth organizations, etc. In recent years, the organization has been committed to the use of gamification as a methodology in non-formal education activities.

In this sense, ASPAYM CyL has developed board games, video games, escape rooms and manuals based on this technique to work with youngsters, always from with young people, always from an inclusive perspective in order to ensure equal access of young people with disabilities to all available resources. In addition, within ASPAYM we have a project called JAVACOYA, which was born with the pretension of a job well done, of personalized service to our clients and with the personalized service to our clients and with the illusion of overcoming the daily challenges set by the market. In addition, it offers a wide range of resources diversity of resources, all of them oriented to optimize and profit, with complete adaptation to your needs, such as:

• Web site design, specializing in the realization of web pages accessible to everyone.
• Web updating, creation and management of profiles on social networks to provide them with new content. Webmaster tasks, web positioning and marketing campaigns.
• Design and development of custom software.

ASPAYM Castilla y León is an organisation that works with the aim of improving the living conditions of people with disabilities in general and spinal cord injury in particular. Currently, we have more than 2000 members throughout the community and more than 200 workers. To achieve the main objectives such as promoting the autonomy of people with disabilities or research and innovation to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities (among others), the entity works in the field of social services and has professionals in education and the social field.

To achieve all the objectives, ASPAYM CyL develops several Erasmus+ projects and programmes in the region: physiotherapy centre, research focused on brain disease, home treatment, development of support products for the home, residence and nursery, technical development services for accessible websites, IT consultancy and community manager and a company that seeks to provide other companies with its services. Likewise, people with disabilities present access barriers to full social inclusion (architectural barriers, digital accessibility, employment barriers…). These can be analysed and reflected in different areas of the person: physical condition, emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships, access to employment and educational and socio-cultural resources. Disability affects the following areas of life:

• Educational area: the process of school inclusion of people with disabilities is relatively stagnant. Gradually the incorporation of students with disabilities into the mainstream education system is catching up, but nevertheless the measures have not fully incorporated young people with disabilities into the mainstream school system.
• Employment: Young people with disabilities have some barriers to accessing the world of work: lack of opportunities, long-term health or illness, and lack of qualifications or experience.
• Health: Many young people with disabilities have chronic illnesses, which leads to chronic health problems, whether physical or psychological.
• Social and family relations: social relations and access to socio-cultural activities, leisure and free time are reduced, leading to feelings of boredom and poor personal development.

In this way, and following the main proposal of this project, which works to minimise the risks of social exclusion, we include in our target group young people, between 16 and 30 years old. This group includes people with and without disabilities. Regarding people with disabilities, there are different types: the most common and widespread disability is physical. Most of them need a wheelchair to be able to move around. Other types of disabilities that we can find in our group are intellectual disability and blindness.