Caritas Diocesana di Trieste PARTICIPATION and EMPOWERMENT BILBAO

Caritas Diocesana di Trieste PARTICIPATION and EMPOWERMENT BILBAO, 22 -25 March 2011 1

LEGAL FRAMEWORK #1 • National issues 1. Law 285/1997: Promotion of rights and opportunities for children - Involvement of children and families in services’ design and management - Promotion of partecipation of children and adolescents to local community life 2. Law 328/2000: Integrated system of social welfare - Support to parenthood - Active partecipation of families in the definition of educational programmes - Experience exchanges within families inside services for children 3. 2001: Modification of the V title of National Constitution 2

LEGAL FRAMEWORK #2 • Regional laws 1. Law 20/2005: Integrated educational system of services for children - Co-responsability between families and educators in the services - Active partecipation of families in development and evaluation of educational programs 2. Law 6/2006: Integreted system of servicec for social citizenship promotion and protection - Promotion of services of self and mutual help within families 3. Law 11/2006: Services for families and parenthoood - Promotion of families associations and experiences of self-organization - Promotion of meetings between groups of parents for educational approaches exchanges 3

AVAILABLE SERVICES for children • COMUNE di TRIESTE ü Social assistance for minors ü Nursery schools and kindergartens ü Young centers (“Ricreatori”) • AZIENDA SANITARIA ü UOBA (health services for children and adolescents) ü Family guidance service(“consultorio”? ) • PRIVATE ASSOCIATIONS AND COOPERATIVES ü Nursery schools ü “Educativa di strada” (meeting youngs in informal services) ü Services and centers for children socialization ü Parenthood support 4

PROJECTS and EXPERIENCES 1) CARITAS TRIESTE 5

CASA “LA MADRE” Care house for women and mothers with children. “Una tata per amica”: new project in association with CAV. baby sitting and support for parents 6

FOR A CHILD-FRIENDLY JUSTICE Project in association with USSM (Department for Minor Justice). v Young crime prevention v Support for work starting v Social inclusion of young people at risk of deviance and alienation 7

Network against poverty Caritas Trieste is part of a network of 5 associations working on sociali and educational services with children Aims: - Analyzing the condition of child poverty in Trieste (i. e. Conference “Give them a change” in january 2010) - Monitoring laws and public/private responses to child poverty - Proposing educational actions to prevent child poverty (i. e. training courses to support parenthood) 8

FOCUS ON SCHOOL Caritas takes care of educative needs of children, by keeping in touch with schools and making school equipments available for children. “World Citizens” project Educational school training for students on poverty and intercultural issues 9

NEW PROJECTS 2011 • CIVIL SERVICE (community service for young 16 -18 y. o. ) • FEI (European Integration Fund): project on intercultural exchange at school • Baby parking in local parish: intergenerational exchange, conjuction of grandparents, parents and children; support for professional integration 10

PROJECTS and EXPERIENCES 2) LOCAL SERVICES AND REALITIES 11

• CAV (Progetto Gemma): support to difficult parenthood • Ass. ANTANDES: families association • SAN MARTINO AL CAMPO: young center • VILLAGGIO DEL FANCIULLO: training • «EDUCATIVA DI STRADA» and SOCIAL COOPERATIVES 12

THE CHALLENGE HOW TO APPROACH AND INVOLVE ADULTS AND FAMILIES TO PREVENT CHILD POVERTY AND OVERCOME INTERGENERATIONAL TRASMISSION OF POVERTY? 13

Case-study - Luigi • • 19 years old guy, early abandonded by his mother and with an heavy drinker father Manifold experiences in residential child-care institutions INSTITUTIONALISATION and development of PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS • Accomodated in Caritas care-house «Teresiano» TOO LATE TO INTERVENE and difficulties to carry forward an educative project, because of the deterioration of 14 the psychological and family situation

Case-study - Tahir • • 21 years old guy, born in Albania with mother immigrated in Italy She legally reunited with him in Trieste but the social re-integration failed Justice deviancy problems development of PSICOLOGICAL PROBLEMS • Social activities instead of prison’s penalty with tutors involvement in relationship promotion social job in Caritas care-house “Teresiano” • • Intercultural problems with the female actors of the project Family lacks and poverty 15

PITFALLS • Giving answers to single needs for the single component of the family • Lack of preventional social actions • Uneasy access to the Welfare system • Lack of nursery schools 16

NEW HORIZONS for PARTICIPATION and EMPOWEREMENT • Enhancing education for children and parents • Fostering the integration of people socially excluded • Financial support and Microcredit access (educational support for a correct approach to home budget) • Creating and providing appropriate spaces to approach families • Keeping in touch with the single and the family after the end of the project 17

Thank you for your attention Marco Aliotta Alberto Flego Marta Mariani 18