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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