Rome 17 February 2024 - The first lesson of the course "Youth disadvantage in the contemporary world: the network that heals" was held at the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation, aimed at volunteers, families and local mental health services. Present were the general secretary of the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation, Luigina Di Liegro, the regional councilor for social inclusion and personal services of the Lazio region, Massimiliano Maselli and Chiara Rogora, psychologist and psychotherapist, Dsm Uoc ASL Roma 2, Tutela Salute Mental and Developmental Age Rehabilitation.
Rome, 30 January 2023 - Registrations are open for the training course for volunteers, family members, youth workers and mental health workers promoted by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation and the Fondation d'Harcourt, with the support of the Lazio Region. The course will be held on Saturdays from February 17th to April 20th. Eight lessons held by experts who aim to train participants on youth issues, including bullying and addictions, promoting a psychosocial support network.
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Mental health is a complex and substantial experience of life, which involves the emotional, relational, social, ethical and imaginary sphere: that is, that unique whole that defines human subjectivity. In this edition of our training course we want to promote the psychological well-being of fragile adolescents and families with the aim of creating a network of solidarity and support aimed at social inclusion. Hence the need to develop - in the health/illness dynamic - the theme of relationships as a crucial device in the co-construction of the rehabilitation process.
It is possible to follow the training course in person, at our headquarters in via Ostiense 106, Rome or online via the platform Zoom.
The meetings will be held on Saturday, from 9.30 to 12.30.
Some dates may be subject to change.
FIRST MEETING – Saturday 17 February 2024
Mental health: needs of adolescents and families in relation to public services
SECOND MEETING - Saturday 24 February 2024
The relationship in adolescence at risk: emotional dependencies and educational tools
THIRD MEETING – Saturday 2 March 2024
Young people between reality and virtual: substance addictions and the internet
FOURTH MEETING – Saturday 9 March 2024
Hikikomori and social withdrawal in adolescence
FIFTH MEETING – Saturday 16 March
The value of the relationship as a skill in volunteering
SIXTH MEETING – Saturday 23 March
Social inclusion through the network of services and rehabilitation tools for the relationship
SEVENTH MEETING – Saturday 13 April
Active citizenship and relationships as a tool of inclusion
EIGHTH MEETING – Saturday 20 April
Don Luigi di Liegro and Franco Basaglia: parallel paths for a conscious community
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For information contact segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
In order to prevent isolation and social marginalization, the project proposes the activation of a listening and assistance service in the area, which provides information on mental health services, orients users and supports them in defining a personalized project with territorial services.
To raise awareness among citizens about mental health, the project organizes training courses, information and annual conferences on topics such as Recovery and addictions. The training objectives include the creation of a group of volunteers to facilitate the social inclusion and therapeutic path of people with mental distress through socialization workshops, such as theatre, music, photography and art therapy.
In order to combat the loneliness of family members of people with mental health problems, the project promotes self-help groups with weekly meetings and monthly supervision by professionals, such as psychiatrists and psychologists, to provide supportive support and share experiences.
The project is conceived following a Recovery approach, which aims to give users an active role again, transforming them from passive recipients to protagonists involved in their own choices and committed to fully developing their potential.
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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To find out more about the Universal Civil Service: https://www.politichegiovanili.gov.it/comunicazione/news/2022/12/bando-ordinario-2022/
To consult the project database: https://www.politichegiovanili.gov.it/servizio-civile/bandi-e-avvisi-di-servizio-civile/bandi-di-selezione-volontari/scegli-il-tuo-progetto/?bando=91527&gazzetta=62&estero=0
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
Il prossimo 2 maggio inizierà il Corso di formazione per volontari e familiari dal titolo “Percorsi di cittadinanza nella promozione della salute mentale”, organizzato dalla Fondazione Internazionale Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus. L’iniziativa rientra tra gli obiettivi previsti dal Bando Comunità Solidali 2020, promosso dalla Regione Lazio - Assessorato Politiche Sociali, Welfare e Enti Locali - Direzione Regionale per l’Inclusione sociale - Area Welfare di Comunità e Innovazione Sociale.
"Percorsi di Cittadinanza attiva nella promozione della salute mentale" intende sensibilizzare i cittadini sul tema della salute mentale tramite la conoscenza e la formazione. Il volontariato rappresenta una fonte da sviluppare, valorizzare e dalla quale attingere risorse per creare una società consapevole e attenta verso coloro che soffrono e le loro famiglie. Una società consapevole è capace di accogliere e non respingere la diversità, e questo rappresenta una opportunità per le persone con disturbo psichico per trovare il giusto centro del proprio percorso esistenziale.
PLAN
MODULO I - 2 maggio, orario 17 - 20
"Tecniche di comunicazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Marco Soricetti, Musicoterapeuta e Conduttore del Laboratorio di Musica della Fondazione di Liegro
MODULO II - 7 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Ascolto attivo, empatia e centralità della relazione"
Alessandro Vento, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Responsabile Osservatorio sulle Dipendenze
Giorgio Veneziani, Dottore in Psicologia
MODULO III - 14 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Paradigma della Recovery"
Antonio Maone, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Direttore Comunità Terapeutica e Residenzialità AslRm1
Daniele Bonarini, Regista PotiPicture
Sara Borri, Psicologa PotiPicture Accademy
MODULO IV - 21 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Gli strumenti della riabilitazione psichiatrica (socializzazione, arte terapia, cura sul territorio)"
Paolo Paolotti, Psichiatra, Psicoterapeuta e Segretario regionale S.I.R.P. Lazio
Nicola Se Santis, Attore, Stuntman, e Conduttore del laboratorio teatrale della Scuola Piero Gabrielli
MODULO V - 28 maggio, orario 10 - 13
"Studio dei nuovi strumenti informatici e digitali a supporto delle nuove forme di comunicazione e della relazione"
Antonia Lonigro, Psicoterapeuta
MODULO VI - 4 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il modello degli Ufe (empowerment e self help)"
Giovanni Fiori, Referente per l’associazione “Le Parole Ritrovate” Regione Lazio
MODULO VII - 11 giugno, orario 10 -13
"Il contributo del volontariato nei percorsi socio riabilitativi"
Michele Di Nunzio, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta AslRm1
MODULO VIII - 17 giugno, orario 17 - 20
"Gestione della sindrome di burn-out, organizzazione dei servizi territoriali e delle attività della Fondazione"
Jose Mannu, Psichiatra e Psicoterapeuta
Per info e iscrizioni: Tel: 06 6792669 - segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
La Fondazione Di Liegro e la formazione al volontariato
The Di Liegro Foundation continues to investigate the topics of volunteering and mental health.
We have organized four online events on volunteering and mental health, which will be visible live on the Foundation's Facebook page.
During the Facebook live broadcasts, we will analyze the values of volunteering, especially for young people, and of solidarity to protect the rights of people experiencing mental distress; we will talk about the need to strengthen the family environment to provide help to the suffering person. In this context, training is the tool that facilitates the implementation of therapeutic paths and the dissemination of greater knowledge on ways to deal with mental distress and promote well-being for everyone and at all ages.
The appointments will also be an opportunity to present the new training course for volunteers and family members, scheduled from May, as part of the "Active citizenship paths for the promotion of mental health" project.
Now, more than ever, we need citizens who are aware of the role they can have in the psychosocial well-being of their community.
It was Luigina Di Liegro, General Secretary of the Foundation which bears the name of the priest who passed away 24 years ago, who welcomed the participants of the 15th edition of the "Volunteers and Families online" course, entitled A new model of community after the pandemic".
“The launch of this course on the eve of two important anniversaries is particularly significant: World Mental Health Day and, a few days later, the anniversary of Don Luigi's passing, on 12 October”. declared Di Liegro “A moment in which, together with you, we renew our commitment alongside the most fragile people. People who have felt the consequences of the spread of Covid 19 more due to the intertwining of health problems with those of a social, environmental and economic nature. A hidden pandemic, that of mental distress, which urgently needs to be remedied by leveraging the community and volunteering. In these days the activities in support of Mental Health of the Di Liegro Foundation are back in full swing with the Course, but also with the laboratories of art therapy, music and theatre. To find ourselves after the hard test of the pandemic, in a new and supportive community." – he concludes – because as Don Luigi said “A city in which a single man suffers less is a better city”
For this year's edition, over 100 people have booked and will be able to follow the course remotely or in person. A signal from the Community of how much these issues are felt by a large part of the population, who has directly or indirectly experienced discomfort increased by Covid. A way for the Liegro Foundation to respond to the request for training and information on mental health issues.
The participants in this year's edition are mostly women and fall into a very broad range. They find themselves united by similar motivations, young students and older pensioners, who want to make their free time and skills available to others.
“Experience has taught us how the different experiences of the participants become the strong point for the success of each edition” says Tiziana Ceccarelli, head of the Course “this year's high participation and the great desire to create community after the pandemic, are undoubtedly the best conditions for a good start."
The course is open to the participation of all those who want to broaden their knowledge of the world of mental health and engage in building a support network for people with mental health problems and their families: students, local service workers, volunteers, family members.
For information: tel. 06 6792669 – fax 0669920486; segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
A new community model after the pandemic: registrations open for the fifteenth edition of the training course “Volunteers and Families networking for Mental Health” of the Don Luigi Di Liegro International Foundation
“It may sound strange, but I had to reach the age of almost 50 to seek support in my relationship with my sister, who has always suffered from mental disorders.” tells Joseph, IT expert who in 2018 participated in the "Course for Volunteers and Families on the Internet" promoted by the Di Liegro Foundation "From the first phone call I understood that it was the right place to find not only understanding, but also new tools to be close to her. Taking part in the course allowed me to "see" his illness from a different perspective, more detached and lucid. I needed to get out of the domestic and family dimension which, paradoxically, represented a limit for me. Among the many things I brought home at the end of the meetings " goes on “the most precious is having become part of a network of people, made up of volunteers and operators. A fundamental dimension, even more so today after the pandemic, in which the possibility of establishing deep and concrete contacts has almost completely been lost”.
“I learned about the Foundation Course thanks to a fellow student", He says Federica, 23 years old, about to obtain a master's degree in Psychology "After much theoretical study, the time had come for me to confront reality and practice. The Foundation's approach, for promoting the well-being of the person at 360 degrees, reassured me and allowed me to come into contact in a "simple" way with the complex world of mental health. It was an opportunity for discussion that enriched me greatly on the human side.” “First through participation in the course, where despite the lockdown due to Covid, I was able to come into contact with people very distant from me, not just geographically. Then with my inclusion in the Foundation's theater laboratory, where each person makes their own characteristics and abilities available in a perspective of growth and mutual exchange".
Like Giuseppe and Federica they are beyond 2.000 the people who, in recent years, have participated in the “Course for Volunteers and Families in the Mental Health Network” promoted by the Don Luigi Di Liegro Foundation – onlus.
The theme around which this year's edition will revolve is "A new community model after the pandemic”: a cycle of seven meetings that will start next Saturday 9 October, held by psychiatrists, university professors, heads of the Mental Health Departments of the ASL of Rome, representatives of family associations.
The course, to which you can still sign up, is open to the participation of all those who want to broaden their knowledge of the world of mental health and commit to building a support network for people with mental health problems and their families: students, local service operators, volunteers, family members.
“The spread of Covid 19, as is now recognized by many, has unfortunately further exacerbated the burden of economic and social inequalities and caused the resurgence of psychological problems starting from the youngest.” He has declared Luigina Di Liegro General Secretary of the Don Luigi Di Liegro Onlus Foundation “Volunteering, today more than ever, plays a fundamental role: helping to remedy critical issues, working alongside and integrating with traditional public welfare systems. This is why we promote the course for volunteers and families, with profound awareness that strengthening the family environment can provide fundamental indirect help to the person who suffers.”
The training course will take place, where possible in person, The Saturday morning from 9 October to 11 December from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm at the premises of the Di Liegro Foundation, near the historic Centrale Montemartini in Rome (via Ostiense 106).
There is a small contribution of 40 euros (20 for university students).
For information and registration: 06/6792669 segreteria@fondazionediliegro.it
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