At Saint-Fargeau, (some 40 kilometers south of Paris), the Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle (CRF) of the Ellen Poidatz Foundation was, in 1919, the first establishment to welcome children and adolescents in a handicapped situation. With a capacity of 60 beds in full hospitalization and 5 additional places for day hospitalization, this center provides care, psychomotor rehabilitation, and dispenses teaching adapted to the young patients aged from 18 months to 20 years.

For nearly 90 years, it has been receiving them for short stays (for cases of temporary motor handicaps) or sometimes very long ones. They are supervised by a densely staffed team of health and handicap professionals: doctors, nurses, assistant nurses, physiotherapists, ergotherapists, orthophonists, psychomotor specialists, etc. Besides, they also receive schooling commensurate with their capacities, in order to guarantee maximum independence through vocational integration.