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Progetto caregiver Liguria
in: Bramanti D., Famiglie con anziani non autosufficienti, e-book, Osservatorio Nazionale sulla Famiglia, pp. 363-381
Progetto caregiver Liguria: lavorare sulla rete e con la rete
in “Politiche sociali e servizi”, 1, 2011, in corso di pubblicazione
Cosa farò da grande. La transizione all’età adulta degli ex minori stranieri non accompagnati in provincia di Trento
Co-authored wuth S. Caneppele, Infosicurezza, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, n° 9, 2011
IL GENERE SUL CAMPO: ALCUNE RIFLESSIONI METODOLOGICHE
in "Studi di Sociologia", 2, 2009, pp. 207-225
L'esperienza dell'auto-mutuo aiuto e la qualità della vita del soggetto, del gruppo e della comunità: il caso di Alcolisti Anonimi
Co-autohored with Albertina Pretto, in “Politiche sociali e servizi”, 1, 2010, pp. 63-79
Disagio e devianza giovanili: una lettura sociologica
in “Quaderni studi e ricerche”, Istituto Rezzara, Vicenza, 17, 2010, pp. 27-40
La famiglia italiana contemporanea
in : E. U. Savona ( a cura di) Il bullismo allo specchio tra realtà e rappresentazione, Vita e Pensiero, Milano , 2010, pagg. 67-79
Famiglia e minori tra rischio e disagio
in: E. Zucchetti (a cura di), Milano 2009. Rapporto sulla città, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2009, pagg. 75-94
La partecipazione della famiglia alla sfera pubblica: capitale sociale e welfare locale
in: Colombo M. (a cura di), Cittadini nel welfare locale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2008, pagg. 41-54
La formazione degli assistenti sociali nel "welfare" che cambia: una ricerca esplorativa
in: “Politiche sociali e servizi”, n. 1, 2008, pagg. 101-116
Separazione, divorzio e tutela dei minori: una riflessione di politica sociale
in: M. L. De Natale (a cura di), La famiglia tra dimensioni giuridiche e impegno educativo, ISU, Università Cattolica, Milano, 2007
Società dell’informazione come modello sociale
in N. Parisi, D. Rinoldi (a cura di), Profili di diritto europeo dell’informazione e della comunicazione, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2005
I modelli di famiglia impliciti negli interventi di politica sociale. Un’analisi del contenuto della legge 53 dell’8 marzo 2000
in: “Politiche Sociali e Servizi”, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, anno III, luglio-dicembre 2001, pagg. 445-454
Residential Care: An Effective Response To Out-Of-Home Children And Youths?
THEORETICAL FRAMING
In Italy, over the last decade the percentage of out-of-home children and youths is growing,... more
THEORETICAL FRAMING
In Italy, over the last decade the percentage of out-of-home children and youths is growing, and this makes increasingly urgent to assess the quality of services meeting this important social problem. Foster care is spreading rapidly, but there are still many children housed in residential facilities. Recently, reflection on residential care quality has greatly developed, at national and international level.
This intervention presents the results of a research-assessment on residential care facilities for children and youths in a region of Northern Italy (Lombardy), taking into account four dimensions: efficiency, effectiveness, participation in planning and intervention, empowerment of children and youths and their family relationships. Their emerging effect is defined as "relational quality".
HYPOTHESIS
A broad examination of international literature shows that the response to children’s needs is as much more effective as children themselves and their families take an active role in the intervention, with a network approach that connects all services having competence over the cases. The purpose of this research is to verify the effectiveness of such a network, which in Italy involves residential care facilities and social services, with the latter in charge of referring the minors to residential care facilities and follow their families.
METHODOLOGY
Wecarried out 187 online self-report interviews to coordinators of residential care facilities; 30 face-to-face semi-structured interviews to social workers; 97 self-report questionnaires to minors above 10 yrs living in children homes.
RESULTS
A) efficiency: residential care facilities are generally good, while social services resources often appear insufficient to ensure an adequate work with birth families;
B) effectiveness: children and youths’ wellbeing in residential care facilities is high, but generally they move from one facility to another never returning to their birth family;
C) participative approach: rather lacking in terms of the involvement of children and their families at different path stages;
D) empowerment: the most critical element is the lack of attention devoted to working with birth families.
The application of the assessment frame of relational quality enabled to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the network responding to the needs of out-of-home children and youths.
Download (.pdf) L'associazionismo familiare
published in "Rassegna bibliografica infanzia e adolescenza", 8, 2 (2008), 5-25