milieu therapy: the importance of this point of view is a given, above all, given that one of the main instruments used by the community to follow the change is to favour as much participation by the client in the daily life of the group as possible...

After an initial period of observation (around three months), aimed at getting to know one another (structural), staff make an initial valuation of the client's problems: such an evaluation forms the basis for the appropriate program for the individual, bearing in mind the particular needs of each case, their difficulties and their abilities, as well as setting out the personalized objectives to be pursued. The objectives are revisited every six months in the course of the community stay and are discussed and verified at periodic meetings with the appropriate authorities...

The rehabilitative/therapeutic project for the client is based on the need to not exclude, except in certain specific cases, the families of the children in the program, and on the importance of their involvement within the context of the program. In this respect, the community, which works mainly with the client, requires the relevant authorities, as far as they are able, to lead meetings of a psycho-educational and / or therapeutic nature with the families, with the aim of promoting a parallel or complementary change to the development of the child. ...

From the point of view of personalisation, it is envisaged that, in accordance with the relevant authorities, there will be the possibility of a "community career" or rather, the movement from one group apartment to another, or from one community to another that is at the equivalent emotional maturity of the client and to the right level regarding the client's needs, as outlined by the staff (for example, movement of the client, who finds himself in a critical and / or regressive phase, into a more protected group)...

The community team is made up of various professions: doctors, psychologists / psychotherapists, technical co-ordinators of the community, social assistant, nurse, supervisor of the pedagogical-cultural area, teachers. Use is also made of external consultants for the exercise or supervision of determined activities ...

As well as the team and the staff, there are four special commissions for the development of specific activities which work across all the community and which meet once a month...

University of Chieti "D'Annunzio", Confo Cooperative, Enti di Formazione ed Inserimento Lavoro...