Find more about the activities in the Social Inclusion Area
Programma integra develops and carries out interventions in favour of migrants as well as seekers and holders of international protection, providing services of socio-legal assistance, job orientation, individual and group sessions of counselling, Italian language courses and vocational training, intercultural mediation services, social mediation in the field of housing.
The measures are put in place by a team of social professionals who, with a modular and integrated approach, identify a network of personalized services for each target, to support each person in the social autonomy pathway.
Current projects
SLC – Statelessness Legal Clinics – Strengthening Legal Education and Practice on Statelessness
The project, “The Statelessness Legal Clinics (SLC) – Strengthening Legal Education and Practice on Statelessness,” aims to ensure, for stateless and persons at risk of statelessness living in Italy, legal assistance to fully benefit from rights and protection by improving access to statelessness determination procedures through the support of university legal clinics and through the training of students interested in the topic.
Constellations
Constellations is a Community of Practices promoted by the Never Alone project that, through experimental activities, aims at stimulating, in the territories involved, the comparison and mutual exchange of competences, operational strategies and the sharing of working tools among operators, tutors and volunteers who support the growth and autonomy pathway of foreign minors in the field of labour integration. For the Rome area, Programma integra signed a memorandum of understanding with the partner organisations for the implementation of the planned activities.
The Ready Reception Service for Lonely Minors aims to create a place of first refuge for lonely minors where they can be welcomed and all the procedures for the protection and inclusion of the guest boys and girls can be started. Via Zurla 53 is a community-type facility, characterised by the continuous availability and temporary reception of a small group of minors, (12 at most), with a group of educators who in turn take on the role of reference adults. The educational community offers a service that, temporarily and while waiting for more suitable solutions, guarantees the satisfaction of the minor’s basic needs, accommodation, food, and protection, and is active in the search for an effective response to his or her developmental needs. In particular, the care project must guarantee the minor qualified affective, educational and relational support in order to allow him/her to experience a positive environment of security, favouring the recovery of relationships of trust towards the external environment. The project is promoted by the Social Policies Department of Roma Capitale.
The service involves the opening of a H24 “Emergenza freddo”- cold emergency shelter – for 8 homeless people inside an apartment owned by the Municipio VII. Guests may be referred by the municipality’s social services and the Roma Capitale Social Operations Room. The Center in Via dei Sestili will provide breakfast and dinner and a shower service is provided for guests.
The Per-formanti project aims to facilitate access to the labor market for vulnerable people at risk of marginalization, including Roma, Sinti and Caminanti citizens and citizens belonging to the LGBTQI+ community, and to tackle the causes of segregation in the labor market. The project is implemented by INVITALIA with financial assistance from the ESF, PON Inclusion 2014 – 2020, through the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy – Directorate General for Poverty Alleviation and Social Programming.
The “Common Space” project aims to increase and strengthen inclusion opportunities for asylum seekers and refugees living in Rome area. The focus of the project concerns the strengthening of the social inclusion services of SUAM – Central for the Reception of Migrants of Rome Municipality – addressed to people seeking asylum, holders of international protection and stateless persons (PoC, Persons of Concern).
The project is aimed at the creation and development of networks for the socio-occupational inclusion of the Ukrainian population on the territory of the Viterbo Province. To this end, it plans the active involvement of the local Third Sector organisations which already have active projects and services aimed at migrant citizens. The project is financed within the Implementation of the Operational Programme of the Lazio Region – European Social Fund 2014-2020 – Axis 2 – Social inclusion and Fight against Poverty.
“Interconnessioni” intends to improve access to services and hospitality for migrants by acting on the offices of Prefettura di Roma in terms of “Capacity building” and on the territories in terms of assistance and training. The proposed approach will therefore be twofold: a capacity building action towards the public servants who act internally through the enhancement of services and experimental actions to facilitate the access of third-country nationals to the offices of Prefettura di Roma.
The project aims to respond to the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the consequent huge migration of refugees from Ukraine to the European countries. The purpose of the project is to promote an integrated action of orientation and social inclusion in the fields of education, work, housing and Italian language for 40 citizens from Ukraine especially women with children. The project is funded by the Lazio Region.
The project coordinates and manages a linguistic-cultural mediation service aimed at migrant and refugee citizens who apply to the health and social-health services in the territory of Viterbo, with the aim of responding to emerging needs through the facilitation of dialogue between patients of foreign origin and health workers in order to ensure equity in the system and reduce any inequalities due to language and cultural barriers.
The service is designed as a pole of guidance and assistance for the migrant population in the more comprehensive framework of intervention under the Reception and Inclusion Directorate of Roma Capitale and integrates functions of reception, reception, listening, guidance and provision of specialized services, preliminary to the social inclusion and active integration of beneficiaries. The service is financed by the National Fund for Asylum Policies and Services (FNPSA) and promoted by Roma Capitale, Social Policies Department, Immigration Office, as part of its participation in the Reception and Integration System – SAI.
The Social Guardianships project aims to strengthen the voluntary guardianship system in Lazio Region as well as to deepen the analysis of the situation of the voluntary guardianship system in the Puglia Region. The strategy adopted by it is to expand the tools available to voluntary guardians for managing the relationship with MSNA and young adults, with particular reference to conducting effective educational accompanying. The initiative is funded by the Never Alone program.
A Casa di Ornella ‘A Casa di Ornella’ is a semi-autonomy center that aims to offer innovative services characterized by the housing reception of transgender, non-binary and intersex people, in conditions of socio-economic hardship and vulnerability, and provides accompaniment in paths aimed at personal, social and work autonomy and the overall improvement of the quality of life of the guests. ‘A casa di ornella’ is an asset confiscated from the Mafia, owned by Roma Capitale and the service is funded by Municipality VII.
The IRIS Project, commissioned by the Lazio Region in implementation of the European Social Fund Programming 2014-2020, experiments with innovative and integrated active policy actions for the care of Afghan and transit migrants, in order to combat poverty, strengthen empowerment pathways and activate territorial networks for the social inclusion of the most fragile categories.
The project P.Ac.S, funded by Lazio Region, has the objective to implement and manage actions and activities aimed at the social inclusion of refugees coming from Ukraine.
The CPAs of Via dei Colombi 190 are residential educational-assistance structures that ensure the essential levels of educational and rehabilitative provision, also coordinated with services, infrastructures and territorial resources prepared for education, free time management and job placement. The Via dei Colombi complex is owned by Roma Capitale and includes, in addition to the CPAs, 3 groups of apartments and 2 communities for the disabled. Programma integra from 1 January 2021 in partnership with the social cooperative Spes contra Spem (Leader) and FAI – Family Assistance for Infancy took over the management of the CPAs for 4 years. The Service is active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is organized in spaces and in the scanning of daily rhythms of life, like a normal family environment.