Progetto Itaca proposes itself to host asylum seekers inside Italian society and territories under Prefettura di Como and Lecco requests. Progetto Itaca creates concrete projects based on consideration and appreciation for the guest in order to let him reconquer his own independence. There are different kinds of intervention model. Indeed, the path starts from guest’s needs, potentialities and limits. In this way, a person’s balanced growing is allowed. In this way, meaningful and diversified relationships among guests that were established. Facility staff and territory permit each seeker to use relational competences and different modalities as appropriate. Each outlined path is assessed and periodically checked. Asylum seekers become active protagonist of their own reception path.
Progetto Itaca educators’ goal is to offer guests the chance for an independence path and social territorial inclusion.
Clinical pedagogists doesn’t look at neither disease nor patient, but at person who lives painfully changes that has to face during his life.
The psychologist plays a key role in the inclusion project to let the individual needs meet the reception project in order to offer a specific support […]
Social worker deals with every phase of asylum seekers’ social inclusion with the general aim of regaining personal independence […]
Asylum seekers have the right to equal treatment and full equality regarding healthcare, compared to Italian citizens.
The foreigner, persecuted in his/her own country, has the possibility to ask Italy for international protection and, therefore, to be recognized as a refugee.
The main goal of mediation is to promote communication beyond possible misunderstandings due to linguistic and cultural differences.
Personal generic assistance is guaranteed by facility operators in accordance with areas supervisors. Supervisors and operators build the asylum seekers reception service.
Dublin Regulation mainly determines the States’ authority for asylum requests, it entered into force in 1999 and has been reformed three times. The fundamental point in Dublin Regulation III, now into force, is the principle establishing that the first-entry Country must take on the responsibility of the new arrivals’ application of international protection: a law that weight on border Country in particular (such as Italy and Greece).
The main principle that regulates asylum seekers’ access to reception measures is that they must prove to have “no livelihoods sufficient to ensure an appropriate quality of life for them and their family” (art. 14, par. 1 LD 142/15).
The evaluation of insufficient livelihood is realised by Prefecture-T (art. 14, par. 3 LD 142/15) “with reference to annual amount of social allowance”.