CASE STUDIES CASE STUDIES

CityCity of of CrotoneCrotone

Laps & RapsLaps & Raps

PROJECTS

Evita Centre H-sport

BENEFICIARIES

Seriously handicapped children and young people from 3 to 21 years

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INTRODUCTION

Sex v.a. %

Male 1.563 89,11

Female 191 10,89

total 1754 100,00

Provincial dates

Crotone’s City Council has a percentage of 33.64% of the provincial total number of disabled people

City of Crotone

N. 392 seriously handicapped people Law 104/92

Class of age 3-21 years SexMale 31Female 18Tot 49

Centro Evita City Council of social aggregation for seriously

handicapped people

Open from 2004 -- 10 months a year from Monday to Friday for six hours a day

Users n°40

Financing Law 162/98

Partnership

Crotone City Council Region Calabria Crotone’s Uisp in cooperation with the national

Uisp, coordinator of the handicap sector UNITALSI, Blind Union,of the Association for deaf-mute

people. Schools

Accessibility

Consignment of the Evita Centre through a public call in which social cooperatives and associations have taken part.

Since 2004 to the present day,the Centre is run by UISP

Operators

N° 1 Social animator N° 1 teacher for each subject N° 12 volunteers of the national civil

service N° 2 auxiliaries ASL psycho- social equipe

Offer of services, activities

Animation and recreational Games –expressive activities Painting, manipulation of clay and other

substances to make and shape things Music and singing education ITC and use of technologies with didactic

equipment Civic education Psychological support for parents

Objectives

Development of sensorial-perceptive and cultural capacities and skills

improving : Interpersonal relations Development of behaviours and

communication capacity Ability to perform a role in an autonomous

way

Methodology

1° phase: meeting with families and integration into the group

2° phase of socialization and improvement of the psycho-cognitive capacities

3° phase civic education and knowledge of the territory

Service impact

It has consented : Forms of aggregation between adults and

minors Running of users in difficulty Improvement of the familiar relations Users’ more autonomy and independence

H-sport 

For seriously handicapped children and people from 3 to 21 years

Centre of recreational sport activities and games,

civic education Open from 2001 to the present day for 10 months a

year for 2 hours on alternated days

Users n° 40 with characteristics of serious handicap : autism,Down syndrome,mental age inferior to the anagraphic one

Partnership

Primary schools and first level secondary schools of the city

Uisp National Centre, coordinator of the handicap sector, associations

UNITALSI, Crotone’s City Council Blind union Deaf-mute association

Activities

courses motory activities

Operators

Motory sciences teachers UISP cooperators and operators volunteers of the national civil service

Objectives

Through the various movements, which are proposed, making all people involved acquire :

better motory capacity linked to space and time with the help of various materials and a recreative-sport equipment

Users’ better capacity of social aggregation.

Methodology

Playing Active experimentation Observation Operative methodology DEBRIFING

Means at disposal

Periodical meetings with parents

Vision of the individual social dossier/personal file

Check and revaluation of the adopted techniques

Impact

Parents have realised thet H-Sport offer of services was completely different than a physio-therapeutic centre,since it goes beyond the specific exercise

High interest, shown by the people involved, in the performed activities

Users have acquired : a better motory capacity , a better aggregation capacity A better capacity in performing

movements and actions in the direction of the pre-fixed objectives