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the users;
c) to promote and safeguard the health of the individual
and of the community, by developing maximum
autonomy and self-sufficiency, also through the
integration of the socio-welfare services;
d) to act in support of tne family, guaranteeing
particularly to individuals with difficulties, where
possible, to stay or rejoin their own family and social
environment and their positive insertion into it,
e) to protect the non self-sufficient individuals without a
family or whose family is unable or unfit to provide for
them, by promoting the forms of juridical guardianship
foreseen by the law and carrying out or favouring their
insertion into families, family-type units or suitable
community environments, freely chosen;
f) to promote the protection and juridical defence of the
individual who is unable to provide for himself when
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those whom the law has assigned to this task are
unavailable or are ineffectual"
We can say that in this sphere are included all those
interventions not classifiable as "welfare" and
"rehabilitative" (strictly within the USSL competence)
and which are characterized as preventive,
interventions of social improvement through socioeducative
structures, educative-welfare interventions
as for example residential centres, old age homes, etc..
As can be noted the social-welfare environment offers
countless possibilities for the MTA (excluding as already
stated the health and rehabilitative services - unless
they are run by the USSL). For these services the MTA
is required to have not a "Professionalism of a health
kind but a socio-welfare type. As we have seen, this
Professionalism could be achieved through special
regional courses.