Support for parenting skills

he projects are aimed at supporting parenting skills, in line with the work plan envisaged by the P.I.P.I. programme (Programme of Intervention for the Prevention of Institutionalisation), and envisage

1. an accompanying pathway aimed at guaranteeing each child an appropriate and quality assessment of his or her family situation, which includes the design of a unified, participated, sustainable and multidimensional action plan, defined by the multidisciplinary team in collaboration with the family
2. a network of integrated social, health and educational services, which can intercept, from a preventive point of view, situations of vulnerability before they become a real detriment to the healthy growth of children and young people, intervening to reduce risk factors and support protective factors.

In particular, the following activities will be implemented

• training of the territorial operators involved (social workers of the families with minors area, health and third sector operators and teaching staff), for the creation of a territorial network competent in the specific topic;
• involvement of 30 families (for each project), supported by a multidisciplinary team identified according to the needs of the child and the family, with whom the devices envisaged by the P.I.P.I. Programme and the national guidelines will be implemented, so as to provide each child with an assessment scheme of the family situation;
• creation of a network of services that will provide two collaboration agreements: an agreement at provincial level between the territorial social service and Psychology and/or Child Neuropsychiatry for the management of situations according to the P.I.P.I. model and an agreement between the territorial social service and the school (from nursery schools to secondary schools).

Seven projects were presented in the area, referring to territorial aggregations identified on the basis of criteria such as population, territorial proximity and the distribution of health districts, which concern all the Valley Communities and the Municipalities of Trento and Rovereto.

Support parenting skills and support families and children in vulnerable conditions, in order to reduce the risk of children's inappropriate removal from their families, by extending the Programme of Intervention for the Prevention of Institutionalisation (P.I.P.I.).

With the interventions envisaged by the projects, the aim is to respond to the need of every child to grow up in a stable, safe, protective and 'nurturing' environment, actively combating the onset of situations that foster social inequalities, school drop-out, and the inappropriate separation of children from their families of origin, through the identification of appropriate actions, of a preventive nature, which aim to accompany not just the child but the entire family unit in a situation of vulnerability, as they enable the exercise of positive and responsible parenting and the construction of a social response to the developmental needs of children as a whole.

The specific objectives of the interventions that will be implemented are as follows

• the extension to all operators in the social-health and school area of the knowledge of the methodology underlying the National Guidelines on Intervention with Children and Families in Vulnerable Situations (P.I.P.I.) in coherence with the regulations in force on child protection and parenting support
• the strengthening of the role of social, educational, health and third sector services present on the territory, in order to increase the effectiveness of the network of services supporting families in vulnerable situations;
• the structuring of cooperation agreements between social, health, school, educational services and juvenile justice authorities;
• the strengthening of existing protocols between social services and schools and between social services and health services in order to extend them to the whole province;
• the strengthening of the relationship between services and families.

Target group: involvement of at least 210 families in a vulnerable situation (30 for each project). In addition, 70 operators will be trained (10 for each project).

The Autonomous Province of Trento acts as the implementing body - single territorial sphere, in order to ensure connection, planning consistency and ease of management of the interventions, with the involvement of the local authorities concerned as project partners.

The implementation of the NRP in Trentino fits coherently into the programme framework for sustainable provincial development, according to the policies identified in the provincial Economic and Financial Document and its Update Note.

PNRR funding: € 1,480,500.00 (211,500 for each project)

With the Directorate Decree of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies no. 98 of 9 May 2022, the lists of projects of the Ambiti Sociali Territoriali (single framework for the Province of Trento) were approved.

On 22 December 2022, the outline of the Agreement with the Ministry for projects aimed at supporting parenting skills and preventing the vulnerability of families and children was approved by the Provincial Council.

In 2023, an agreement was signed between the Autonomous Province of Trento and the local implementing bodies that own properties to define the parties' obligations (Resolution no. 788 of 12 May 2023).

All projects are in the implementation phase.