Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Assistance to socially deprived categories
The Compagnia supports the “Fabbrica Scuola” project of the Cooperative “l’Arca” Ivrea (Turin),
for the vocational training of people experiencing difficulties.
According to the programme guidelines for 2004, the activities of the Assistance Sector have
pursued the objective of guiding the Compagnia interventions, hitherto targeting vulnerable
groups, to pinpoint cross-cutting needs.
In order to optimise resources and to foster cooperation between social-work-related bodies, a
significant part of the activities in this sector has once again been devoted to local network
building to come up with efficient and effective solutions to serious social impact issues. These
interventions have promoted the interaction between various local actors in specific spheres.
Moreover, they have contributed to enhance the experience of all the actors involved, encouraging
knowledge sharing and allowing the application of new operational models.
The main areas of intervention and relative fields of interest on which operations have been carried
out in 2004 are as follows:
- home care (assistance in the home and in residential centres for Alzheimer’s sufferers);
- support during the formative years (with particular reference to support for parenthood, activities
of youth aggregation and juvenile deviancy);
-programmes for social autonomy (with particular reference to phenomena of addiction,
psychiatric and mental disease, foreign immigrants and other people in difficulty and prison
problems).
The activity of 2004 was directed prevalently at the Piedmont area, with particular attention to the
Turin metropolitan area, Genoa, Liguria and Southern Italy.
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Home Assistance
In 2004 home care policies aimed at the improvement/maintenance of the quality of life of non-self
sufficient persons were a primary objective of the Compagnia. This attention is a consequence of
the positive effects of these policies on the family unit.
Those concerned are in particular, the non-self sufficient elderly or with limited self-sufficiency,
those suffering from cancer or other serious illnesses at an advanced stage and the disabled.
The affective value that the home holds for the elderly patient is a fundamental asset to guarantee
an adequate quality of life and the stabilization of their remaining capacities. In this context the
support agreed for the continuation of the ADPO project (Post-hospital Home Care) plays a
considerable role. It targets the elderly experiencing hardship discharged from Turin hospitals
and in need of monitored convalescence, and it helps them to recover self-sufficiency. In an effort
to avoid uprooting the elderly patient from home, Day Centres have been created for non-