The area of intervention of the project was mainly the ASL Roma 2 area, but it was aimed at citizens of the entire territory of Rome Capital. The project allowed a broad involvement of users, family members, citizens and institutions. The activities implemented largely represent examples of replicable good practices and an example of civic participation, empowerment and social inclusion of isolated or people in difficulty. The activities are free for participants, open to all citizens, supported by a monitoring system and the use of systems to protect individual privacy.
Good practices in the field of mental health certainly emerged from the project activities, such as the effectiveness restored to people with discomfort through the creation of inclusive socialization spaces. In fact, often in mental health services laboratory activities are exclusive to those with a psychiatric diagnosis and people risk being ghettoized and self-excluding themselves. Supporting not only professionalizing activities with art masters but also socialization with volunteers and non-clinical operators allows for better use of the tool e.g. artistic in favor of rehabilitation and the acquisition of safety by the person. Another good practice is to encourage the meeting of family members of users who come from different contexts: through discussion and networking between people who face the same caregiving difficulties it is certainly an element of help for the whole family and the valorisation of resources .
Rome, November 2023 - RomaSette Avvenire returns to the activities of the Di Liegro Foundation to promote socialization and combat the isolation of patients hospitalized in the Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Treatment Service (SPDC) of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome.
The piece tells of a pilot project, promoted by ASL Roma 1 and financed by the Lazio Region, managed by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation, which uses art therapy to support the mental health of psychiatric patients at the San Filippo Neri hospital. Through music, reading and painting workshops, the project aims to reduce patients' isolation and limit the use of physical restraints. It offers a social path for patients, promoting a non-judgmental environment open to personal expression. The objective is to reduce "mechanical restraint" and improve emergency intervention strategies, especially after the increase in serious psychiatric disorders post-pandemic. In addition to this activity, the Foundation supports the SOSS, an active Orientation and Social Support desk, which becomes a useful tool for the patients' relatives.
Rome, 9 November 2023 - Talking about bullying and social isolation with lower secondary school children. The Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation launches a series of meetings to promote awareness among young people on the issues of social inclusion and acceptance of diversity. Today the first meeting was held with guest Guglielmo Scilla, aka Willwoosh.
The meeting program is:
Rome, October 2023 - Promote socialization and combat the isolation of patients hospitalized in the Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Treatment Service (SPDC) of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome, also providing support to families. This is the primary objective of the pilot project promoted by the ASL Roma 1 Mental Health Department (DSM) financed by the Lazio Region, which entrusted the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation with the rehabilitation laboratory activities at the SPDC of San Filippo and the purchase of materials that facilitate the stay of patients in the SPDC departments of the DSM, both at San Filippo Neri and Santo Spirito. The initiative was launched during the month of October.
Sansepolcro, 7 December 1996
I willingly participated in this event because I believe that we will come out of it with encouragement to be peacemakers and to be able to appreciate the sacrifice that many make to be workers of solidarity and justice in everyday life. The meaning of this celebration is somewhat to exalt some figures who, certainly, not only spoke, but above all gave their lives for the realization of this very high ideal, which is that of peace. Very high ideal, but also quite evanescent: I believe that working for peace means first of all, making some awareness, making commitments that lead us to be able, day by day, in all the events that touch us, or strike us, to discern an appeal to peace, understood as a right but also as a duty. An awareness that also leads us to see not so much theoretically (not because I am not a lover of theory), but concretely the relationships, the interdependence that exists between us and the phenomena of injustice and inequality. Phenomena, these, which lead us to verify the situation of non-peace that exists in our society and in the world.
Becoming aware of the close dependence that exists between us and others means understanding that peace depends on everyone and certainly that peace cannot be made with slogans. We must know how to promote a culture of peace that depends on discerning the history we are living. That is, it means entering into the events of history, of this era in order to be able to see responsibility in a negative and positive sense. Responsibilities that affect us directly and, from this awareness, from this discernment, the culture of peace is born, that is, the culture of dialogue, the culture of relationships. It is not classical culture, made up of notions or theses, which also serves to increase sensitivity in us, but that knowledge of historical experiences and a historical heritage that becomes a point of reference for everyone. It is enough to spend a few hours here in Sansepolcro to see how this cultural and historical heritage that can be read in this city is essential for promoting a humanistic culture on Man. However, we must also take into account that we are the ones who are the supporters and promoters of a culture. I intend this as a basis for being able to make our life a life that is dedicated in the most radical way possible to the service of others. I believe that peace does not yet exist, because there is not this culture of knowing how to see in others, not an enemy, an adversary, a person to be destroyed, but the same dignity that I defend in myself, seeing my own same rights. We spoke earlier about this large assembly organized by the UN in Rome. Here it was imagined to define eating as a right: I use this word because there are people who cannot eat, perhaps even in our towns, in our cities, increasingly in Rome for example. Americans have not agreed to define eating and nourishment as a human right. So I want to say that probably our commitment that was born this evening, and today is nourished and encouraged, is precisely this becoming aware that the Other different from me has the same rights that I have: the right to work, to respect, to integration and I would say, to culture, the right to respect for its cultural, religious and social identity. In this we have forgotten that the Constitution also made the recognition of rights a commitment to guaranteeing the rights themselves.
It seems to me that some in parliament are working to avoid continuing to declare that work is everyone's right, that culture is everyone's right: some argue that the Constitution cannot continue to declare this. We know that even if stated, many rights are violated on a daily basis. Politics is less and less available to guarantee the rights that are written down. But perhaps these rights are written too high to avoid banging our heads and I would say that every day we should bang our heads where these fundamental rights are not only not guaranteed but, even, we want to give up recognizing them for the future. I think there are concrete examples where the commitment to spreading the culture of peace is needed: I am not just referring to immigration into our country which brings cultural and religious differences between us, different identities which are also cultural riches. If we become aware of this richness we can defeat fear which is the opposite of peace. Because fear foments violence. We are peacemakers: but what happened in the Senate and then in Parliament after the declaration or promise to regularize 240,000 immigrants who had applied, that is, the proposal of vacatio legis which would have been the shame of the Italian State towards many countries considered developing? We are far from being promoters of peace when we talk about these differences if they cause us to change our mentality. In our country I have seen many people who say they belong to the left-wing culture and then they rage on this issue of immigration and then, we no longer know what the left-wing culture is and we can no longer understand what it means wedding ring. When others who are different from me are not accepted, then I cannot continue to say that I want peace. Where social differences and above all cultural, ethnic and religious differences are not accepted as an asset, they cause a challenge to solidarity, a commitment to participation in the common good which is always the good of each and all. And I return to Rome encouraged by the testimony that today is rewarded in the noblest sense of the word, because I believe that we who witness this celebration of the awarding of an award are more rewarded than those who receive it. Because this presentation of an award has nothing rhetorical: it simply has the motivation to say that we need witnesses like them, to make the world a more peaceful world, that is, more just and more supportive.
Father Luigi Di Liegro
Rome, 12 October 2023 - we remember the passing of our Don Luigi, which occurred 26 years ago. On this occasion, the Holy Mass in his memory was held, concelebrated by the vicegerent of the diocese of Rome Baldo Reina, by the auxiliary bishops Benoni Ambarus - former director of the diocesan Caritas, now delegate for Charity - and Riccardo Lamba - delegate to the hospitable Church and outgoing -, the current director of Caritas of Rome Giustino Trincia also participated.
You are a young person between 18 and 29 years old and you like it to communicate And relate to others? You are interested in developing empathy And listening skills In the context of psychosocial well-being? Do you want to improve your skills in using the digital tools? Join the our team and help us realize concrete projects!
The importance of digital tools is now known and widespread, however there are segments of the population that still do not have the skills and possibility to use them or strengthen these skills. Help us too to facilitate access to the future, to make digital knowledge and tools increasingly accessible to everyone.
The Universal Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation can represent a significant educational and training experience, an opportunity to increase one's wealth of knowledge, which can be used throughout one's working life, while ensuring financial recognition at the same time. The kids who want to have this Civil Service experience will first be trained, thus acquiring the knowledge and then passing it on to the other kids.
The Universal Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation offers a significant educational and training experience, an opportunity to broaden your knowledge and acquire useful skills for the future job. Volunteers will receive a complete, general and specific training, before working with other young people.
For all volunteers there will be a monthly expense reimbursement equal to 507,30 € for 12 months, furthermore from 06/22/2023 the mandatory reserve of the 15% of places available in public competitions for those who have carried out the Civil Service.
Places available: 6
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“Welcoming to innovate 2” - Project Code PTXSU0011223020039NMTX – Headquarters Code 156102
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“Welcoming to integrate 2” – Project Code PTXSU0011223020040NMTX) – Headquarters code 156102
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Call for digital civil service projects
Download the notice issued by the DEPARTMENT FOR YOUTH POLICIES AND UNIVERSAL CIVIL SERVICE
To find out more about the Universal Civil Service:
Home - Department for Youth Policies and Universal Civil Service
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Home - Department for Youth Policies and Universal Civil Service - Choose your project.
Requirements for participation in the Call for Universal Civil Service
Young people who, on the date of submitting the application, have turned eighteen and have not exceeded twenty-eight years of age (28 years and 364 days) can participate in the selections.
Please note that young people who have already completed national or universal civil service cannot submit applications for participation, without prejudice to what is indicated in article 3 of this announcement.
Volunteer training
The volunteer will have a period of both general and specific training to be able to carry out the tasks assigned to him. The Third Party, Società Nomina Srl, will provide a service recognition and certification of acquired skills during the Universal Civil Service.
How to submit the application
Aspiring volunteer operators must submit the application for participation exclusively through the Application platform online (DOL) reachable via PC, tablet and smartphone at https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it. Applications to participate must be submitted no later than 2:00 pm on 28 September 2023.
If you are between 18 and 29 years old and want to dedicate part of your time to your community, the Universal Civil Service at the Di Liegro Foundation can represent a significant educational and training experience.
An opportunity to commit to active citizenship, an opportunity to increase one's wealth of knowledge, which can be used throughout one's working life, while ensuring financial recognition at the same time.
We are looking for young people who love life communication and the relation, whatever they want team up for a concrete project, who are interested inempathy and to theI listen, particularly in the area of psychosocial well-being.
The Civil Service volunteers at the Di Liegro Foundation will contribute toorganization, to the support and to communication from the training activities aimed at citizens, volunteers and family members, of Telephone listening service e Orientation, and to those of the Self-help groups to support families of people with mental and mental health problems socialization and art therapy workshops.
Discover the projects of Di Liegro Foundation, which are part of the programme ASL RM2 for which you can apply: Click here
“From loneliness to inclusion 3” - Project Code PTXSU0011222010663NMTX
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“The color of the Moon 3” – Project Code PTCSU0011222010665NMTX) – Headquarters code 156102
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>>> For information call 06.6792669 or write to segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
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Requirements for participation in the Call for Universal Civil Service
Young people who, on the date of submitting the application, have turned eighteen and have not exceeded twenty-eight years of age (28 years and 364 days) can participate in the selections.
Please note that young people who have already completed national or universal civil service cannot submit applications for participation, without prejudice to what is indicated in article 3 of this announcement.
How to submit the application
In order to participate in the selection, it is necessary to identify the SCU project on which to be involved.
To access the list of SCU projects in Italy and abroad, use the "Choose your project in Italy" search engine. By clicking the SEARCH button (without making a choice in the other proposed fields) you obtain the complete list of all the projects. To carry out a targeted search for a project it is possible to select the values of the items that interest you. The number of applications received for that location is also displayed on the project detail page; this data is updated to the day before viewing.
Aspiring volunteer operators must submit the application for participation exclusively through the Application platform online (DOL) reachable via PC, tablet and smartphone at https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it. Applications to participate must be submitted no later than 2.00 pm on 20 February 2023.
To access the application compilation and submission services, the candidate must be recognized by the DOL system
1 - Italian citizens residing in Italy or abroad can access it exclusively with SPID (Public Digital Identity System). On the website of the Agency for Digital Italy www.agid.gov.it/it/piattaforme/spid all information is available on what SPID is, what services it offers and how to request it. To access the DOL platform, SPID security level 2 credentials are required.
2 - Citizens of countries belonging to the European Union and foreigners regularly residing in Italy, if they are not available to acquire the SPID, will be able to access the services of the DOL platform through specific credentials to be requested from the Department, according to the procedure available on the home page of the platform itself.
The selected volunteer operators sign a contract with the Department which sets, among other things, the amount of the monthly allowance for carrying out the service at €444.30 which could be increased on the basis of the variation ascertained by ISTAT.
Useful links:
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“Situations of social imbalance, areas of marginalization and urban desolation, represent a permanent threat to peace. The very discomfort of many young people and adolescents, those most affected by social and family disintegration, already constitutes a sort of powder keg that threatens our urban coexistence."
Father Luigi Di Liegro
Work to protect mental health of the Community represents a complex objective which cannot be achieved only with the improvement of social norms, values and practices, but which also requires actions that make known and create participation in the condition of "mental distress" which, out of fear, too frequently results in difficulty to accept.
The training intervention: "SOS Families: new needs and resources in mental health" highlights some of the possible protection actions to be implemented, as emerges from the analysis of family situations, schools and public services dedicated to this topic . The responsibility of contributing to the balanced mental development of the members of a community is entrusted first and foremost to families and parents who with their behaviors support the mental and physical health of their children. It is then necessary for the institutions to place mental health as one of the investment priorities for the implementation of policies that favor the development of an inclusive society, free from discrimination and violence. For its part, the School must be ready to immediately identify the actions to be implemented in the event of assessments of distress among children and adolescents. Last but not least, citizens must be able to contribute through volunteering to the reception and inclusion of the most vulnerable people.
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Plan
Saturday lessons
(9.30am - 12.30pm)
FIRST MEETING – 02/04/2023
The family yesterday and today: new needs in mental health
Luigina Di Liegro, Secretary General of the Di Liegro Foundation
Luca Salmieri, Professor of Sociology, Sapienza University of Rome
Rita Potena, Psychiatrist, former TMSREE ASLRM2 manager
SECOND MEETING -18/02/2023
Mental health: relationship of young people and families with public services
Giuseppe Ducci, Director of the ASLRM1 Mental Health Department
Laura Anelli, Gynecologist and Head of ASLRM1 Consultations
THIRD MEETING - 02/25/2023
Tools for supporting parenting and family well-being
Pierluca Zuppi, Psychiatrist
Paolo Paolotti, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Regional Secretary of SIRP Lazio
FOURTH MEETING - 04/03/2023
Risky behaviors: managing addictions in the family
Alessandro Vento, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist CSM ASL Roma2 and Head of the Addictions Observatory
FIFTH MEETING - 11/03/2023
School and family: definition of goals and resources in mental health
Gianluigi Di Cesare, Psychiatrist, Head of the UOC Prevention and Early Interventions in Mental Health ASL Roma1
Tiziana Sallusti, Headmaster of the Terenzio Mamiani Classical High School
SIXTH MEETING - 03/18/2023
Empathy and communication techniques to support the family
Josè Mannu, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist
SEVENTH MEETING - 03/25/2023
Volunteering and mental health: relationships as a resource
Michele Di Nunzio, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist ASLRoma1
Great participation at yesterday's event at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome at the meeting "From the pandemic to war: physical and emotional marginalization. The impact on the territory as told by the media", which saw a succession of prominent figures on the current scene, experts industry and mental health professionals.
The critical issues generated by the years of the pandemic and the difficulties of the economic situation linked to the conflict in Ukraine have brought the issue of mental health and isolation back to the fore, which has especially affected young people. Many topics were addressed and risk factors highlighted at various levels within a multidisciplinary and stimulating discussion for speakers and listeners.
The event was possible thanks to the funding of LazioCrea, Lazio Region, on a public notice dedicated to the Municipalities of Lazio and private bodies for cultural, social and tourism initiatives in the territory of the Lazio Region. LAZIOCrea Spa Annualita 2022 interventions.
Relive the entire conference below
