Here is the course (with exercises) for families who decide to welcome migrants
Training cycle as part of the Vesta project, the Municipality: "Many participants, those who start the process are always very motivated"
BOLOGNA – A training course entirely dedicated to welcoming young migrants into the family and understanding how to support them on their path towards autonomy: in Bologna, on 14 May, the first of four meetings of the new course promoted as part of the Vesta project, complete with “practical exercises on the development of stereotypes and on meeting others”, reports the Municipality. The meetings will take place on Thursday evenings, until June 6th. “Vesta is a project that is part of the Reception and Integration System (Sai) which offers families, couples and individual residents in the metropolitan area of Bologna – explains Palazzo D’Accursio – the opportunity to open the doors of their home to a young migrant, accompanying him for a short period of his journey towards autonomy and integration. Vesta guarantees the help of a multidisciplinary team available for the family at all stages of the journey”.
THE OBJECTIVE: TO BRING CITIZENS CLOSER TO THE WORLD OF RECEPTION
The course, in particular, has the objective of “bringing citizens closer to the world of hospitality in Bologna – continues the administration – explaining in particular the Sai project, the network of services, the functioning of reception in the family and some practical exercises are planned on the elaboration of stereotypes and on meeting others”. It is also “an opportunity to learn and understand the essential principles regarding the legal, health, cultural and psychological aspects – writes the administration – pertinent to the life of those hosted and the related transcultural aspects in the relationship with ‘the other’ in the paths undertaken”. The meetings, then, will give the opportunity to “deepen the motivations and expectations of one’s choice to approach family reception and to come into contact with the direct experiences of those who have already lived this experience”, underlines Palazzo D ‘Accursio, explaining that the training is organized by the social cooperative Cidas with the collaboration of Asp Città di Bologna and the Municipality.
FAMILY-WELCOME? ON AVERAGE IT LASTS TWO YEARS
Vesta is a project that in recent years has seen a path “of extraordinary acceleration of the processes of inclusion and integration of these young people in our community – declares the councilor for New Communities, Luca Rizzo Nervo, today on the sidelines of a conference press – and which however, also unlike other experiences of family reception in Italy, includes a training course before reception, during reception and also in the final restitution phases”. So there is “a very solid path, every year – continues the councilor – registrations are opened to participate and make themselves available for this welcome and fortunately in recent years we have had many responses and participation from families and people”. About a hundred people were present at the first training day last year, Rizzo Nervo recalls for example, underlining that “those who follow this path are absolutely motivated to complete it”. On average, the councilor always points out, family reception lasts a couple of years but there is no predetermined deadline: “It is a path that adapts to specific needs and opportunities for emancipation > that are gradually created”, concludes Rizzo Nervo.
