New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

Email user
mifconsultorio@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
A house of rights

Full initiative Title
Accompany homeless people.

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
The primary objective becomes that of responding concretely to a state of loneliness related to the consequences of the lives of homeless people. The specific objectives: to determine greater autonomy in the life path of the subjects involved; promote the acquisition of new social skills; create forms of contrast to social unease.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
National

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Italy

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Sicilia- Palermo

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly urban

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Aps Consultorio dei diritti MIF (minori, migranti, famiglie)
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Vincenzo
  Last name of representative: D'Amico
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Italy
  If relevant, please select your other nationality: Italy
  Function: Avvocato
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Aragona, 19
  Town: Palermo
  Postal code: 90133
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 340 319 1447
  E-mail: damicovincenzo87@gmail.com
  Website: https://www.consultoriodeidirittimif.it/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/mif_consultorio_dei_diritti/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #personaalcentro #diritti#legalclinic#persona#famiglia#minori#migranti#dirittiuguali#ascolto#salute
- URL: https://www.facebook.com/consultoriomif/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #personaalcentro #diritti#legalclinic#persona#famiglia#minori#migranti#dirittiuguali#ascolto#salute
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18794124/admin/
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): #personaalcentro #diritti#legalclinic#persona#famiglia#minori#migranti#dirittiuguali#ascolto#salute
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
The project activities intend to fit into the current national context, characterized above all by the sense of loneliness, uncertainties and fears of the homeless. Some research has shown the existence of long-term effects due to the infection with the Coronavirus.
“Covid-19 infection can have important consequences even months after recovery and in young and perfectly healthy people before the disease. Experts call it Long Covid or post Covid syndrome. About a third of Sars-Cov-2 positive patients continue to have symptoms 6 weeks after being negative for the virus. Fatigue and chronic tiredness are the most frequent ailments among former covid patients, to which are added a feeling of shortness of breath, memory loss, concentration difficulties, widespread joint pain, skin rashes, headaches and dizziness, insomnia. Some patients may have depressive symptoms or be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. According to a study coordinated by the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, in fact, around 50% of the Italians interviewed who had direct experience of the covid said they suffered from depressive symptoms while 30% had problems with anxiety, stress and other ailments related to trauma". (Long Covid: research defines the long-term effects of the post Coronavirus syndrome. AssoCareNews.it - National Health Quotidiano)
Our intervention takes place within an unstable socio-economic context characterized by uncertainty with respect to one's "movements" and relationships, which can cause bewilderment and confusion. Welcoming and listening to the homeless become tools capable of integrating the work of existing territorial services and of developing a sense of community functional to the management of everyday life "crushed" by the pandemic.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
rights

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
inclusion

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
accompaniment

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
solidarity

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
net

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The M.I.F. (Minors, Migrants and Families), in continuity with the current activities carried out (helpdesk), intends to initiate interventions that can concretely improve the quality of life of homeless people who are the recipients of the intervention. The project idea, designed ad hoc for the emergency situation we are experiencing, provides for the articulation of two main activities to be carried out over a period of 6 months: listening and information.
As far as listening is concerned, in the first phase the professionals will be trained and informed, through moments organized online or in presence, on the dimension of listening and on the methodology to be followed during the activities.
The unity of access and the user's freedom of choice will be guaranteed through various direct channels such as street activity and indirect contact channels such as the online telephone form already present on the site and Facebook. The listening activity will include, first of all, the reception of spontaneous requests for support, support and information from the homeless. Requests will be handled by listening professionals (counselors, pedagogists and psychologists) who will evaluate the most suitable professional volunteer to resolve the acquired criticality. Secondly, the user will be invited to dialogue directly with this professional through a meeting, a call or a video chat, according to the user's preference.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The current listening desk is structured as follows: 1. First Contact, which provides for user access through various direct and indirect contact channels such as email, blog, Facebook, telephone, etc.; the dedicated operator prepares an individual listening space to receive the information and collect it both for the purpose of the pre-assessment and for the observatory function that covers the service.
2. First interview, carried out by the operator by making an appointment. The functions of the first interview are those of orientation (definition of need) and accompaniment, in fact, the operator prepares a special form which the user also signs to continue with a specialist consultancy offered by the professional volunteers of the MIF.
The helpdesk is inspired by the model of the family counseling centre, based on a process of shared reflection and supervision of the pre-assessment, through the tool of the team meeting. Depending on the complexity of the need analyzed in the first level, the volunteers, through a multidisciplinary exchange functional to the case, field a plurality of different knowledge and resources which thus become information accessible to the user. On the basis of the identified need and its complexity, the answers will be functional to restore to the person the role of agent with social rights and skills and to increase the user's self-determination and knowledge of existing services. An ambitious goal to be achieved through a complex process, which will certainly involve a work of analysis and clarification of user needs.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The beneficiary target of the project is made up of people aged between 18 and 50 in conditions of significant social marginalization with a chronic nature such as homelessness; people who live
on the road and/or have the road as their habitual residence and way of relating; Italians and
foreigners, in a state of social exclusion detectable through the following indicators
and informants. Among the latter, in particular, the following will be evaluated: the frequency and quality of the
relationships with the family of origin and/or with other significant figures, with reference to
ability to establish and maintain meaningful relationships over time; housing situation,
with reference to the possession or not of a house, to the "housing continuity", to the modality
residence, to the time elapsed since the last accommodation; socio-sanitary situation, with
reference to relations with services offered by the local community; work situation, with
reference to previous work experience, the ability to keep a job, al
time elapsed since the last work experience; economic situation, with reference
the resources available to the person and his ability to manage money, methods
of protection of private life, with reference to the protection of one's own space, of
own biographical information, characteristics and maintenance of an identity
personal data, with reference to the possession or loss of identity documents;
perception of the figure of the social worker as a mediator between user and service

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
We will work by integrating public-private resources and professionalism according to a logic of
shared charge and a specific individual project for and with the beneficiary.
An integrated team will be set up, in which the bodies involved will be represented in taking charge and, if necessary, invited other subjects to participate.
Model: case report, need analysis, identification of path to start,
shared project processing, acceptance, project development, release e
accompaniment to autonomy. Methodological elements:
- social and inclusive function of the territorial network: a homeless person inserted in
apartment needs a real accompaniment to rebuild ties and
dynamics in the community.
-continuity of public and private social health services and establish procedures for taking them
caring for people with mental health problems. The challenge will be to “take charge of
part of the charge".

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
Social impact is an outcome measure net of essential changes, which
they would have occurred equally without the project, and of those observed but
attributable to other interventions. The measure of the impact therefore represents the actual
ability of the project to bring about the expected changes”.
Social impact measurement will be central to both understanding the rationale
at the basis of the project, both to analyze and redefine internal activities and objectives, and for
inform all stakeholders involved, internal and external, about the change that has taken place.
Therefore, it will have an internal function to identify strategic lines and criteria, factors of
criticalities and areas to be enhanced and an external function, to communicate the effectiveness of
own interventions.
The impact will have a relapse on the macro level (population, services, government); on the level
meso (community change) and on the micro level (individual change),
since it is the part of the outcome (change) linked to the activities carried out.
It will refer not only to the social value created, but also to social improvement
which it is able to generate.
The expected impact with respect to the recipients will be linked to:
- to the transformations of individual behaviors;
- the improvement of access to care for people in conditions of social poverty;
- the improvement of external relations;
- the increase in attendance at the proposed activities
- knowledge of issues related to health poverty.
Compared to operators and the network:
- to cultural and organizational change;
- the adoption of participatory methodologies
With respect to services:
- to activate and enhance existing territorial services and facilities and introduce new ones.
Compared to the network:
- the consolidation of links between partners;
- the implementation of the network with new subjects

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
The multiprofessional team will be made up of psychiatrists, social workers,
psychologists/psychotherapists, social tutors/caregivers, peers, host facility representatives i
internships.
The ownership and responsibility of the organization will be shared, although each actor
will retain the specificity of particular segments. Each professional figure, integrating
with the others, it maintains a central role and equal dignity, to enhance the intervention. The
case manager will be an immediate reference for each taking charge. All actions of the
process (ITP, integrated interventions, internships, etc.) will be shared in a "clinical record".
social”, to be understood as a multi-professional and multidisciplinary tool of
coordination of clinical care processes, integration of the "knowledge" and "skills" of
all operators.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
The meaning of the project is therefore to be able to
experiment with greater force the possibility of taking charge and a project with
the person who sees in the round the answer to often unexpressed needs o
fragmented over time. The model, Housing first, can be replicated as it has already been tested
in many parts of Italy and in the world, provides for the possibility of returning an intervention to
measure of the person involved, the failure stands out, unfortunately constantly
social and health integration, the focus of this project.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
The project was born from the shared analysis of the need by people without
residence and in conditions of serious marginalization, between public and private entities that operate
together for years and to the further need of a taking charge and a relative
accompaniment to autonomy. The involvement of public bodies aims to establish a
procedure and a culture in taking charge of homeless people, as well as a
method in which the home, health, social inclusion and autonomy are essential constituent parts of a person's health.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
For a better organization of the activities, n. 4 phases to be carried out over 6 months:
1. CONSTITUTION OF THE PROJECT TEAM
1.1 Definition of professionals involved;
1.2 Planning activities (times and places);
1.3 Preparation of documents for the start of the activity.
PRODUCTION
Minutes, timetable, contracts.
2. OPERATORS TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
2.1 Drafting of the calendar of training and supervision meetings;
2.2 Training and supervision meetings.
PRODUCTION
Calendar, minutes.
3. COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS RAISING
3.1 Flyers and digital posters to be published on the channels available to the MIF.
3.2 Articles to be published on the channels available to the MIF.
PRODUCTION
Digital advertising material, photographic material, articles.
4. MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESK
4.1 First level reception/listening
4.2 Second level listening
PRODUCTION
User cards, monitoring tools (graphics).
The phases of REPORTING (preparation of administrative-accounting documentation) and MONITORING (constant analysis of the process and data collection) are transversal to the entire intervention. There is also a figure who will be responsible for monitoring the activities carried out, by compiling a weekly report with respect to incoming applications and verifying the drafting activity.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
From the principles of Housing first, some elements on which to build can be deduced
replicability and flexibility:
Living is a human right
Damage reduction
Participants have the right to choose and control
Active and non-coercive involvement
Distinction between living and therapeutic treatment
Person centered design
Recovery orientation
Flexible support, for as long as you ne

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
1. CONSTITUTION OF THE PROJECT TEAM
1.1 Definition of professionals involved;
1.2 Planning activities (times and places);
1.3 Preparation of documents for the start of the activity.
PRODUCTION
Minutes, timetable, contracts.
2. OPERATORS TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
2.1 Drafting of the calendar of training and supervision meetings;
2.2 Training and supervision meetings.
PRODUCTION
Calendar, minutes.
3. COMMUNICATION AND AWARENESS RAISING
3.1 Flyers and digital posters to be published on the channels available to the MIF.
3.2 Articles to be published on the channels available to the MIF.
PRODUCTION
Digital advertising material, photographic material, articles.
4. MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESK
4.1 First level reception/listening
4.2 Second level listening
PRODUCTION
User cards, monitoring tools (graphics).
The phases of REPORTING (preparation of administrative-accounting documentation) and MONITORING (constant analysis of the process and data collection) are transversal to the entire intervention. There is also a figure who will be responsible for monitoring the activities carried out, by compiling a weekly report with respect to incoming applications and verifying the drafting activity.

At the moment the working group is set up and operational.
If we manage to win the tender in question we will be able to extend our activities to the issue of the homeless in Palermo

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Web link
Web link
- https://academy.consultoriodeidirittimif.it/pubblicazioni/
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
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