Support for parenting skills

The projects are designed to support parenting skills, in line with the work plan set out inthe P.I.P.P.I. programme (Intervention Programme for the Prevention of Institutionalisation), and involve:

1. a support programme designed to ensure that every child receives an appropriate, high-quality assessment of their family situation, including the development of a unified, participatory, sustainable and multidimensional action plan, drawn up by the multidisciplinary team in collaboration with the family;
2. anetwork of integrated social, health and educational services capable of identifying, from a preventative perspective, situations of vulnerability before they become a real threat to the healthy development of children and young people, by intervening to reduce risk factors and support protective factors. 

In particular, the following activities will be carried out:

• training for the local professionals involved (social workers specialising in families with children, healthcare professionals, third-sector workers and teaching staff), to create a local network with expertise in this specific area;
• involvement of 30 families (per project), supported by a multidisciplinary team selected in accordance with the needs of the child and the family, with whom the measures provided for under the P.I.P.P. ProgrammeI and the national guidelines, so as to provide each child with an assessment of their family situation;
• creation of a network of services comprising two collaboration agreements: a provincial-level agreement between the local social services and the child psychology and/or neuropsychiatry services for the management of situations in accordance with the P.I.P.P.I. model, and an agreement between the local social services and schools (from nursery schools to lower secondary schools).

Seven projects have been submitted across the region, relating to local groupings identified on the basis of criteria such as population, geographical proximity and the division of health districts, covering all the Valley Communities and the municipalities of Trento and Rovereto.

To strengthen parenting skills and support vulnerable families and children, with the aim of reducing the risk of children being improperly removed from their families, by extending the Intervention Programme for the Prevention of Institutionalisation (P.I.P.P.I.).

The interventions set out in the projects are intended to address every child’s need to grow up in a stable, safe, protective and ‘nurturing’ environment, actively countering the emergence of situations that foster social inequalities, early school leaving and the inappropriate separation of children from their families of origin, by identifying appropriate preventive measures designed to support not only the child but the entire vulnerable family unit, as these enable the exercise of positive and responsible parenting and the development of a social response to the developmental needs of children as a whole.

The specific objectives of the interventions to be implemented will be as follows: 

• to extend knowledge of the methodology underpinning the National Guidelines on Intervention with Children and Families in Vulnerable Situations (P.I.P.P.I.), in line with current legislation on child protection and parenting support; 
• strengthening the role of local social, educational, health and third-sector services, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the network of services supporting families in vulnerable circumstances; 
• the establishment of cooperation agreements between social services, health services, schools, educational services and the juvenile justice authorities; 
• strengthening existing protocols between social services and schools, and between social services and health services, with a view to extending them across the entire province;
• strengthening the relationship between services and families.

Target audience: involvement of at least 210 households in vulnerable situations (30 per project). In addition, 70 practitioners will be trained (10 per project).

The Autonomous Province of Trento acts as the implementing body – covering a single territorial area – in order to ensure coordination, consistency in planning and ease of management of the interventions, with the involvement of the relevant local authorities as project partners.

The implementation of the PNRR in Trentino forms an integral part of the provincial framework for sustainable development, in line with the policies set out in the Provincial Economic and Financial Document and the related Update Note.

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

ByDirectorial DecreeNo. 98 of 9 May 2022 issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, the lists of projects for the Territorial Social Areas (a single area for the province of Trento) were approved.

On 22 December 2022, the Provincial Executive approved the draft agreement with the Ministry concerning projects aimed at supporting parenting skills and preventing the vulnerability of families and children.

In 2023, the agreement was signed between the Autonomous Province of Trento and the local implementing bodies that own the properties, setting out the obligations of the parties (Resolution No. 788 of 12 May 2023).

As at 30 June 2026, the project’s target had been met and exceeded, in accordance with the established deadline.

The project reached 240 beneficiary families in vulnerable situations, and support programmes were put in place, backed by a network of integrated social, health and educational services.