the “Labirintus. Actions to combat poverty through support networks and social inclusion", carried out between 2013 and 2015 within the 2013 regional program of interventions aimed at combating poverty and social exclusion in the Lazio Region, had the objective of combat personal and family poverty that arises as a consequence of job loss and prolonged unemployment.
The project, aimed mainly at people over 40 residing in the city of Rome who have lost their jobs, introduced actions that have been taken up over the years in various locations, both at national level and in the European Community.
Supply emotional and psychological support, intervene on recovery and enhancement of professionalism and skills, activate networks and resources for re-entry into the job market, the cornerstones of the project are still strategic interventions for the employment inclusion of people with fragility.
Unfortunately, this is an ever-present topic if you consider that the unemployment rate in Italy today (15-64 years) is 7.6%, the inactivity rate - relating to people who have stopped looking for work - is 33.5%; these data for women are 8.7% and 42.7% respectively. If we observe the situation only in the South, the data are all worse: unemployment 13.9%, inactivity 44.2%, female 16.1%, youth 35% (Istat, June 2023).
Among the tools successfully tested by the project, to combat the state of poverty and unemployment, we highlight: orientation and relational reactivation meetings; the welcome, support and coaching service; the provision of an income support "Grant". Individual paths which, combined with group work, accompanied the development of entrepreneurial skills and abilities of the participants and actively contributed to the recovery of psychological balance and the prevention of forms of serious mental distress.
All the actions implemented to date represent good practices that can be replicated with their intervention model.
The LABIRINTUS Project saw the participation of 139 unemployed over 40s, distributed over 6 training cycles with the following timing:
