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Thursday 12 April 2012
Thursday 5 April 2012
Visit at "Ulisse" bar - Firenze
Ulisse is located near Arca, but it has a service, Ulisse bar, inside San Salvi, a big area in Firenze, a structure that looks like a village within the city.
San Salvi was a psychiatric hospital from 1891 to 1978, when all the psychiatric hospital were closed thanks to “Basaglia law”.
Basaglia Law is the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978 which signified a large reform of the psychiatric system in Italy, contained directives for the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals and led to their gradual replacement with a whole range of community-based services, including settings for acute in-patient care.
Officially inaugurated in 1891 (its construction had begun in 1887), the hospital was dedicated to the great physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, an outstanding figure in the field of psychiatry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The San Salvi Hospital replaced the historic, but now inadequate, Florentine structures. The new complex was designed as a place able to respond to the new tendencies emerging in psychiatry at the time. In this sense, the relationship that developed between medical disciplines and psychiatric hospital architecture is particularly interesting. Basically, the project originated through close collaboration between the designer (Giorgio Roster) and the psychiatrists (Tamburini, Grilli, Pellizzari). The result was a village-like structure, consisting of several pavilions.
It is interesting to note that the hospital buildings were arranged within an ellipse. On the longer axis, to the west, were the men’s medical facilities, on the east those of the women. The two structures were connected by terraced corridors and underground galleries. The patients were housed in the following pavilions: the Calm; the Infirm and Paralytic; the Semi-Agitated, Dirty and Epileptic; the Agitated; the Pensioners; and the Paying Young Patients Section.
Located on the shorter axis of the ellipse were the administration (including the main office), the management and operational services (such as the kitchen, the laundry and the steam generator) and the religious ones (such as the church). These buildings were surrounded by a large park.
In 1895 the scientific laboratory was built and in 1904 the water supply system, which is probably the first work in reinforced concrete to be built in Florence. It was at San Salvi, in January 1918, that the great poet Dino Campana was interned, to remain there for many years, fourteen in fact.
Now we can find at San salvi area a lot of services. First of all the health services, but we can also find Cooperative B, one living healthcare for elderly, children school, university, “La tinaia” a rehabilitation center for psychiatric patients and one theater company.
Ulisse is a B cooperative, born in 1998.
Ulisse is finalized to the job placement of disadvantaged and disabled people according to the 381/91 law. It has many services, addition to the bar, it has repair services and bike rentals, it takes care of bulky waste collection, cleaning and maintenance, computer services, laundry services, social tourism.
San Salvi was a psychiatric hospital from 1891 to 1978, when all the psychiatric hospital were closed thanks to “Basaglia law”.
Basaglia Law is the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978 which signified a large reform of the psychiatric system in Italy, contained directives for the closing down of all psychiatric hospitals and led to their gradual replacement with a whole range of community-based services, including settings for acute in-patient care.
Officially inaugurated in 1891 (its construction had begun in 1887), the hospital was dedicated to the great physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, an outstanding figure in the field of psychiatry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The San Salvi Hospital replaced the historic, but now inadequate, Florentine structures. The new complex was designed as a place able to respond to the new tendencies emerging in psychiatry at the time. In this sense, the relationship that developed between medical disciplines and psychiatric hospital architecture is particularly interesting. Basically, the project originated through close collaboration between the designer (Giorgio Roster) and the psychiatrists (Tamburini, Grilli, Pellizzari). The result was a village-like structure, consisting of several pavilions.
It is interesting to note that the hospital buildings were arranged within an ellipse. On the longer axis, to the west, were the men’s medical facilities, on the east those of the women. The two structures were connected by terraced corridors and underground galleries. The patients were housed in the following pavilions: the Calm; the Infirm and Paralytic; the Semi-Agitated, Dirty and Epileptic; the Agitated; the Pensioners; and the Paying Young Patients Section.
Located on the shorter axis of the ellipse were the administration (including the main office), the management and operational services (such as the kitchen, the laundry and the steam generator) and the religious ones (such as the church). These buildings were surrounded by a large park.
In 1895 the scientific laboratory was built and in 1904 the water supply system, which is probably the first work in reinforced concrete to be built in Florence. It was at San Salvi, in January 1918, that the great poet Dino Campana was interned, to remain there for many years, fourteen in fact.
Now we can find at San salvi area a lot of services. First of all the health services, but we can also find Cooperative B, one living healthcare for elderly, children school, university, “La tinaia” a rehabilitation center for psychiatric patients and one theater company.
Ulisse is a B cooperative, born in 1998.
Ulisse is finalized to the job placement of disadvantaged and disabled people according to the 381/91 law. It has many services, addition to the bar, it has repair services and bike rentals, it takes care of bulky waste collection, cleaning and maintenance, computer services, laundry services, social tourism.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
Visit at “Progetto V.A.I.”
From many years Arca is involved in creating initiatives and running a series of services whose aim is to get various categories of people into or back into employment: former drug addicts, children in custody, people with physical and mental disabilities, other people in a state of social hardship. The project aims to encourage career guidance, vocational training and job placement, through constant research in the local area into work opportunities and preparation for working life.
Progetto V.A.I. is one of these services. It literally means Independent (I) Adult (A) Life (V) Project. The project is a services of “Società della Salute Fiorentina Sud-Est”: a consortium of municipality of the area south east of Firenze, that includes 16 municipality.
Arca, with another cooperative “Cooperativa Inchiostro”, menages Progetto Vai since few years. The services is aimed to young disabled people, with 104/92 certification, from 16 to 35 years old.
According with 104/92 and 68/99 laws, V.A.I. Project ménage job training program and social housing for young disabled people, who lives in the 16 municipality and who are in charge of social case workers.
Useful terms:
Handicap and disability: handicap means the social disadvantage deriving from disability. Disability and handicap are ruled by the law 104/92 that we will explain in the following pages.
Civil invalidity: it is recognized as a civil invalid the person who has a reduction of at least one/third of his working capacity, because of physical, psychic (congenital or acquired) problems. Civil invalidity is ruled by law 118/71.
Disability and invalidity have not the same meaning. Same conditions can be found in the same individual, but not necessarily civil invalidity is verified with disability and viceversa.
Law 104/92 rules assistance and social integration as well as the rights of disabled. It promotes disabled people integration through benefits favouring inclusion of disabled persons in a social context. Through this law disabled people are entitled to receive various facilitations but no economical advantage.
People with a permanent a reduction of at least one/third of working capacity (34%) or younger than 18 with difficulties in performing the functions and duties of their age, are considered civil invalids.
Civil invalidity is expressed by the percentage of working capacity reduction.
According to the recognized percentage different rights and benefits are acknowledged:
34% invalidity - impairments related prosthesis are free in addition to any other benefit qualifying as a civil invalid;
46% invalidity - the enrolment in the employment office lists (employment centers of the provinces) aiming the mandatory employment in public or private agencies (L. 68/99);
67% invalidity - it is granted the ticket-exemption for specific health services, it is also granted primary and secondary school and university fees exemption, provided the invalid belongs in a disadvantaged family;
74% invalidity – a monthly allowance is granted;
75% invalidity or more - to public or private disabled employees are acknowledged 2 months of notional income every worked year;
100% - inability pension. In case the invalid is also completely reliant on others he is entitled to the attendance allowance.
Law 68/99 favours the integration of disables into the working world, through a targeted employment putting into evidence the personal working potential with actions suitable to a job placement.
In Italy, targeted employment is ruled by Provinces dealing with various services related to the employment.
Once over compulsory education, young disabled with civil invalidity higher than 46%, can enrol to the targeted employment and take advantage of training courses before employment.
Law 68/99 establishes that public agencies and private companies must employ from targeted employment 1disabled every 15 employees. Disabled can be hired also by B type Social Cooperatives.
As far as Law 68/99, disabled persons are:
Progetto V.A.I. is one of these services. It literally means Independent (I) Adult (A) Life (V) Project. The project is a services of “Società della Salute Fiorentina Sud-Est”: a consortium of municipality of the area south east of Firenze, that includes 16 municipality.
Arca, with another cooperative “Cooperativa Inchiostro”, menages Progetto Vai since few years. The services is aimed to young disabled people, with 104/92 certification, from 16 to 35 years old.
According with 104/92 and 68/99 laws, V.A.I. Project ménage job training program and social housing for young disabled people, who lives in the 16 municipality and who are in charge of social case workers.
Useful terms:
Handicap and disability: handicap means the social disadvantage deriving from disability. Disability and handicap are ruled by the law 104/92 that we will explain in the following pages.
Civil invalidity: it is recognized as a civil invalid the person who has a reduction of at least one/third of his working capacity, because of physical, psychic (congenital or acquired) problems. Civil invalidity is ruled by law 118/71.
Disability and invalidity have not the same meaning. Same conditions can be found in the same individual, but not necessarily civil invalidity is verified with disability and viceversa.
Law 104/92 rules assistance and social integration as well as the rights of disabled. It promotes disabled people integration through benefits favouring inclusion of disabled persons in a social context. Through this law disabled people are entitled to receive various facilitations but no economical advantage.
People with a permanent a reduction of at least one/third of working capacity (34%) or younger than 18 with difficulties in performing the functions and duties of their age, are considered civil invalids.
Civil invalidity is expressed by the percentage of working capacity reduction.
According to the recognized percentage different rights and benefits are acknowledged:
34% invalidity - impairments related prosthesis are free in addition to any other benefit qualifying as a civil invalid;
46% invalidity - the enrolment in the employment office lists (employment centers of the provinces) aiming the mandatory employment in public or private agencies (L. 68/99);
67% invalidity - it is granted the ticket-exemption for specific health services, it is also granted primary and secondary school and university fees exemption, provided the invalid belongs in a disadvantaged family;
74% invalidity – a monthly allowance is granted;
75% invalidity or more - to public or private disabled employees are acknowledged 2 months of notional income every worked year;
100% - inability pension. In case the invalid is also completely reliant on others he is entitled to the attendance allowance.
Law 68/99 favours the integration of disables into the working world, through a targeted employment putting into evidence the personal working potential with actions suitable to a job placement.
In Italy, targeted employment is ruled by Provinces dealing with various services related to the employment.
Once over compulsory education, young disabled with civil invalidity higher than 46%, can enrol to the targeted employment and take advantage of training courses before employment.
Law 68/99 establishes that public agencies and private companies must employ from targeted employment 1disabled every 15 employees. Disabled can be hired also by B type Social Cooperatives.
As far as Law 68/99, disabled persons are:
- Civil invalid with working capacity reduction higher than 45%
- Disabled workers, invalidity higher than 33%
- Blind
- Deaf mute
- War invalid
- Widows, orphans and equivalent, of war dead, war-service-work invalid
- Italian repatriated refugees
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Visit at Istituto degli Innocenti – Firenze
The "Istituto degli Innocenti" (Institutes of the Innocents) in Florence has been working for nearly six centuries on behalf of the family and the child. At the time when it was established, during the first half of the fifteenth century, it was the first institution in the known world devoted exclusively to child care.
Still today, the Institute is accommodated at Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, in the building of the historical Hospital designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi.
The commitment to the protection of children and their rights has never witnessed a stop, even though it was brought up to date in response to the evolution of culture and society. Suffice it to think that, while in the early 1960s it was still devoted exclusively to reception and care (it accommodated nearly 300 children in a state of abandonment), to-date the Istituto degli Innocenti is a center of services and diversified activities: a home for the reception of minors, a home sheltering pregnant women and mothers with children; a number of day nurseries and supplementary educational services; a center engaged in the documentation, research, analysis and training on matters related to children, adolescents, and families.
The Istituto degli Innocenti participates in the system of the educational services of the Municipality of Florence through a number of organizational proposals. Each service has peculiar features that are to meet at best the requirements of children and their families.
The educational services include three Day Nurseries and a Center for Children and Parents.
To help children to grow well in the early years of their life is like growing plants that are likely to bear good fruits throughout their existence. This awareness forms the basis of the project of our educational services and urges us to search for a constant improvement in the quality of our reception services, the expertise of the personnel, and the definition of the most suitable educational courses.
The Day Nurseries and the Center for Children and Parents are open from September to July, with exclusion of the Christmas and Easter holiday periods.
Still today, the Institute is accommodated at Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, in the building of the historical Hospital designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi.
The commitment to the protection of children and their rights has never witnessed a stop, even though it was brought up to date in response to the evolution of culture and society. Suffice it to think that, while in the early 1960s it was still devoted exclusively to reception and care (it accommodated nearly 300 children in a state of abandonment), to-date the Istituto degli Innocenti is a center of services and diversified activities: a home for the reception of minors, a home sheltering pregnant women and mothers with children; a number of day nurseries and supplementary educational services; a center engaged in the documentation, research, analysis and training on matters related to children, adolescents, and families.
The Istituto degli Innocenti participates in the system of the educational services of the Municipality of Florence through a number of organizational proposals. Each service has peculiar features that are to meet at best the requirements of children and their families.
The educational services include three Day Nurseries and a Center for Children and Parents.
To help children to grow well in the early years of their life is like growing plants that are likely to bear good fruits throughout their existence. This awareness forms the basis of the project of our educational services and urges us to search for a constant improvement in the quality of our reception services, the expertise of the personnel, and the definition of the most suitable educational courses.
The Day Nurseries and the Center for Children and Parents are open from September to July, with exclusion of the Christmas and Easter holiday periods.
Day Nurseries and Center
The Day nurseries
The educational services are provided within the Istituto degli Innocenti. The three Day Nurseries take advantage of a lunch service provided through the centralized kitchen of the Istituto degli Innocenti, which is served in each individual section and is shared by children, educators and staff.The Day Nurseries rely on an extensive green area, with a suitably equipped play ground.
Picchio nursery (place where we did the visit)
It is open even to the smallest children: - It accommodates children from 3 months to 3 years of age. - It is open Monday through Friday, from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.- Children may attend a part-time nursery, leaving from 2.30 p.m. onwards.- It is built around three sections: a section for "babies" (3 to 12 months) and two sections for "medium" and "big" children (from 12 months to 3 years).
Giocheria nursery
Nidino micro nursery
The Center for Children and Parents
The reception servicesThe success of the socio-educational intervention is the result of the positive cooperation among all the persons who participate in it and, within this context, the Innocenti reception Communities play a definitely active role.
The Children's Home, "The Mothers' and Pregnant Women's Home", "The Swallows Home" are residential educational Communities for children and for mothers or pregnant women in disadvantaged conditions. They are often requested to deal with complex needs resulting from a variety of problems that affect the person: psychological and relational aspects of suffering may be compounded by conditions of material poverty, moral deprivation and deviation.
A good psychological and social diagnosis is the first step in the selection of measures that are to meet specific requirements. The effectiveness of the social security system is the result of the ability to supplement the various competences and the supports that may be made available.
A joint analysis of the various cases, an individual educational project, a documentation system, and regular checks are the indispensable methodological tools for the quality of the network activity in which the Communities are actively involved.
The Children's Home, "The Mothers' and Pregnant Women's Home", "The Swallows Home" are residential educational Communities for children and for mothers or pregnant women in disadvantaged conditions. They are often requested to deal with complex needs resulting from a variety of problems that affect the person: psychological and relational aspects of suffering may be compounded by conditions of material poverty, moral deprivation and deviation.
A good psychological and social diagnosis is the first step in the selection of measures that are to meet specific requirements. The effectiveness of the social security system is the result of the ability to supplement the various competences and the supports that may be made available.
A joint analysis of the various cases, an individual educational project, a documentation system, and regular checks are the indispensable methodological tools for the quality of the network activity in which the Communities are actively involved.
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