Experience

PNG Department of Justice & Attorney General

• Legal Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Social worker

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  The U.I.C. (Ufficio Interventi Civili) empowers the functionality and efficiency of the initiatives of the Juvenile Public Prosecutor, regarding to civil jurisdiction. The UIC, delegated by the PP, intervenes in situations of dysfunctional families and distressed environment where children’s physical and emotional needs are not met, such as intrafamilial neglect, sexual abuse and violence exposure, potentially resulting for the minor in developing risky behaviours such as school refusal, drug abuse, self-harm and criminal conduct. The U.I.C. intervention procedures take place before the juvenile petition is filed. Show less



Chi rom e... chi no

• Scampia, Naples, Italy

• Social Worker, Outreach worker, Youth Support Worker, Mediator.

  • 2002 - Present

  Chi rom e… chi no Onlus was established in Scampia in 2002/2003, right before what it is recorded to be "one of the bloodiest gang wars in the city's modern history", when the balance of the Camorra's narcotic business was broken and clans were splitting into "friends" or "rivals". Local people were scared, the whole neighborhood would close itself for a couple of years and Scampia was about to fall into a "social oblivion". But there's good in this suburb. As a team team composed of social workers, teachers and lawyers, we assessed the needs of people by going out and meet them, so to implement social interventions with participative approaches as well as building resilence projects with multi-dimensional perspectives. Its cultural/social activities and events are based on the concept of the city as a shared space and its periphery as a truly dynamic environment, where meaningful interrelationship can be developed and enhanced to plan and place anti-discriminatory practices, so to generate self-awareness processes, autocriticism, cultural emancipation and self-determination. Chi rom e… chi no realizes audio-visual reports and creative workshops focused on participatory methodologies, both in the political and the social dimensions and encourages community focused social practices with children, teenagers and adults mainly living in the suburb of Scampia (Naples), underaking the advocacy of the local Roma ethnic minority and enhancing meeting events and social actions to facilitate the integration of both the Italian and the refugee communities (mainly Roma people escaped from ex-Yugoslavia in the 80's and "settled down" in an illegal encampment). The social interventions, in accordance with the human rights principles, always means co-operating with the schools, the local welfare services and the health care services, even though for the first 10 years Chi rom e... chi no would work only on self-funding base (earnings from cultural events and private funding). Show less



Comune di Sestu

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistente sociale

  • May 2022 - Aug 2022

  L’équipe del progetto “Servizi Sociali in Rete: Educazione, Scuola, Famiglia” del Comune di Sestu lavora sulle situazioni di disagio familiare e di pregiudizio a danno di minori, in ottica preventiva e riparativa, programmandointerventi in collaborazione con servizi territoriali quali Scuola, Neuropsichiatria Infantile e dell’Adolescenza, Consultorio familiare, Centro per la Famiglia e il Tribunale per i Minorenni. L’équipe del progetto “Servizi Sociali in Rete: Educazione, Scuola, Famiglia” del Comune di Sestu lavora sulle situazioni di disagio familiare e di pregiudizio a danno di minori, in ottica preventiva e riparativa, programmandointerventi in collaborazione con servizi territoriali quali Scuola, Neuropsichiatria Infantile e dell’Adolescenza, Consultorio familiare, Centro per la Famiglia e il Tribunale per i Minorenni.



Comune di San Vito

• Assistente sociale

  • Nov 2020 - Mar 2021

  Il servizio sociale offre supporto alla comunità estesa, così da dare all'utenza la possibilità di accedere alle risorse necessarie. Si attestano i bisogni dell'utenza con colloqui preliminari e si strutturano strategie di intervento compartecipate tra assistente sociale e utente, così da: promuovere il benessere del singolo e della comunità; stabilire compiti reciproci; potenziare l'autodeterminazione dell'utente; proiettare l'intervento sociale nel futuro al fine di seguirne le varie fasi e poterle valutare in itinere. Show less



District of Muravera, Sardinia.

• Muravera, Sardinia, Italy

• Social Service Worker

  • Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

  The social worker is the link between the client and the local resources. The so called "social secretariat" service aims to provide information to the extended local community, so that a person and/or a family can gain needed resources. Needs are assessed during preliminary interview and common strategies of problem solving are developed together with the social worker and the person or family, so to promote the well-being of clients; to establish common tasks; to facilitate the restoration of the client's resilience; to strengthen the client's self-determination; to project the social intervention ahead and to follow up to be sure the needed resources are attained. The final goal of the process focuses on the client beginning to feel better and taking steps to independently continue to work on the issues. Show less



Casa Emmaus Social Enterprise

• Regione San Lorenzo, Iglesias (SU)

• Professional Social Worker

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

  The SPRAR project, System of Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati) is a second-line reception phase involving applicants and holders of international protection. The nationalities are: Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria. The interventions carried out by the multidisciplinary team are: 1) Psychological support activities, focused on easing emotional and behavioral difficulties both in groups and individuals; 2) Legal service, with the aim of making the beneficiaries aware of their legal status as foreign asylum seekers or holders of international or humanitarian protection; 3) Social service, focused on supporting individuals and family groups to prevent and resolve situations of need. The role of the professional social worker is focused on point 3, although the team's effort aims at generating the progressive autonomy of the persons involved, with a long-term view intervention, together with the hosting community. Show less



COOPERATIVA SOCIALE LA LUNA

• Italy
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professional Social Worker

  • Nov 2019 - May 2020

  In 2018, the second-line reception system known as System of Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati, SPRAR) was reviewed and reformed into the System of Protection for Beneficiaries of Protection and Unaccompanied Minors (Sistema di protezione per titolari di protezione internazionale e minori stranieri non accompagnati) called SIPROIMI. The Social Cooperative "La Luna"offers runs a second-line accommodation project. The beneficiaries are a group of male and female Africans, mainly coming from West-Africa. The role of the team is to support the protection seekers in different aspects such as: legal support, health support, language skill training. The Professional Social Worker's area of expertise ranges from the organization of workshops oriented on both gaining the right tools and skills needed to live in Italy and the deep understanding of the way European society is organized. The PSW's duties include a primary phase of assessment of each protection seeker, which leads to the evaluation of their personal talents, their own resilience and from then on to slowly build a social intervention around the person, with the person, taking into account the formal equity of the human rights, yet without neglecting each person's uniqueness. The fieldwork needs to be extremely flexible and well structured at the same time. Show less



GUS Gruppo Umana Solidarietà

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professional Social Worker

  • Aug 2019 - Nov 2019

  In 2018, the second-line reception system known as System of Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati, SPRAR) was reviewed and reformed into the System of Protection for Beneficiaries of Protection and Unaccompanied Minors (Sistema di protezione per titolari di protezione internazionale e minori stranieri non accompagnati) called SIPROIMI. The Italian Ong Gruppo Umana Solidarietà in the city of Capoterra (South Sardinia) offers a second-line accommodation to a group of male Africans, mainly coming from West-Africa. The role of the team is to support the protection seekers in different aspects such as: legal support, health support, language skill training. The Professional Social Worker's area of expertise ranges from the organization of workshops oriented on both gaining the right tools and skills needed to live in Italy and the deep understanding of the way European society is organized. The PSW's duties include a primary phase of assessment of each protection seeker, which leads to the evaluation of their personal talents, their own resilience and from then on to slowly build a social intervention around the person, with the person, taking into account the formal equity of the human rights, yet without neglecting each person's uniqueness. The fieldwork needs to be extremely flexible and well structured at the same time. Show less



Social Cooperative “Type A” L'Edera ltd.

• Central-Eastern Sardinia (Italy)

• Social worker, Specialist Study Skills Support Tutor, Learning Facilitator, Mediator.

  • Nov 2015 - May 2017

  The education support program provides tutoring to children affected by Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), by supporting, motivating and encouraging students to develop and achieve their full potential in education. Simultaneously, the program enable the facilitation work with the whole families by using their own home as the “comfort zone par excellence” context for the social intervention. The intimate setting shows the multiple levels of the problems (or set of problems) weighting on the disadvantaged families: that gives the opportunity to widen – and adjust – the intervention ongoing. The job requires initial assessment of the multi-problem family (disorganized attachment, psychosocial violence, child neglect); planning, implementation of the intervention; evaluation reports; multidimensional équipe multidimensional équipe meetings; co-operative work between the Tutor, the local welfare services and the school. Show less



Social Cooperative Opportunity ltd.

• Tortolì (NU). Sardinia, Italy.

• Intercultural Mediator, Italian Tutor.

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  The National SPRAR project (Sistema di Protezione per Richiedenti Asilo e Rifugiati: Protection System for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) aims to host, to support and to give humanitarian protection to all those immigrants at risk or subject to deprivation of their rights. The Opportunity ltd. acquires a dismissed hotel business to host Unaccompanied Refugee minors and to provide them with accommodation; supply food; support of a linguistic/intercultural mediator; help in accessing social, health and educational services; social inclusion; school and training courses enrollment. Show less



Primaidea srl

• Italy
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Social Worker, Mentor, Conflict Mediator, Management Traineeship Tutor.

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2015

  The Region of Sardinia (Italy) promotes the "Lav...Ora" Program, the aim of which is to support the social inclusion and the integration of disadvantaged adults through “one year paid traineeship placement”. The business companies willing to host the trainee are previously appointed by Primaidea ltd. The Management Tutor provides high quality mentoring and guidance to the trainees, as well as helping them to gain job skills, to attend the task and to respect the schedule. The role's key skills are: conflict management, mentoring, problem solving, trainee/trainer mediation. He also ensures that each business companie's direction meets the criteria of the Program by providing a safe work setting, while effectively guiding the trainee through all different aspects of the required job task. Show less



Chi rom e... chi no Onlus; The Kumpania - Gastronomic Intercultural Journeys ltd.

• Scampia, Naples, Italy.

• Community Social Worker, Intercultural Mediator, Project/Support Worker.

  • 2012 - 2014

  The Kumpania - Gastronomic Intercultural Journeys is an multicultural catering project, After a community work with a group of marginalized Roma families (please see "I Crociati" project below), our team assessed a unique social outcome by observing how much effort a group of women from Scampia (Naples, Italy) would put into informally set up a truly convivial catering, in order to greet and enteirtain all the guests and “visitors” who had arrived from the neighborhood and from all over the main city of Naples during a theatre event. The excellent results were far beyond the expectations, in terms of self-determination, self-entrepreneurship and genuine self-emancipation. Since then, a group of 12 unemployed Roma and Neapolitan women has united to create a small catering business called “The Kumpania – Intercultural Gastronomic Journeys”, which was formally funded in 2013 by the Unicredit Foundation, having won the “Naples 2.0 International Social Innovation Competition” and has constantly moved onto Roma-Italian fusion cuisine experimentation by setting up the very first Roma-Italian Restaurant nationally recognized: Chikù. While the manifesto might seem “cooking and serving food for a living”, the true mission is to create a social economy practice, to maintain an ethical finance project in order to unite rather than divide, to integrate rather than segregate. The Kumpania has been awarded for “Creating an innovative new method for inclusion of the young Roma population”. In August 2012, it was invited to Venice (Italy) to cater and to participate to the one-day event ZUPI–ZUPPA–SOUP held at the Faculty Of Arts & Design of the University IUAV (Venice): the purpose of the event was to create a dialogue around the housing related issues for Roma people within EU. Being the setting convivial and informal, conversations were moderated during the course of a meal prepared by The Kumpania: the women involved in the cookery were then invited at the open discussion. Show less



Chi rom e... chi no Onlus

• Scampia, Naples, Italy.

• Intercultural Mediator, School-Family Mediator.

  • Jan 2011 - Feb 2011

  The “school-family project” is designed to fight the low attendace rates of refugee schoolchildren, as well as to prevent their potential social emargination. The main responsibilities of the job role are: to create and maintain a strong network model between the local school and those refugee family living in extremely poor conditions; to strongly encourage integration meetings and activities between both the Roma and Italian cultures sharing the suburb of Scampia; working together with the local/regional social services to ensure a proper teaching of literacy to refugees minors so to enhance the literacy rate. Show less



Campania dei Festival Foundation, Punta Corsara, Cultural Enterprise.

• Naples (Italy).

• Social reporter, Writer, Communiy social worker.

  • Mar 2008 - Apr 2009

  The book "Terre in disordine. Racconti e immagini della Campania di oggi" ("Messy lands. Stories and images of Campania today") edited by Minimum Fax, gathers 5 qualitative social research reported by 5 working groups, each of them composed of 2 social reporters and 1 photographer. Each working group investigates five different areas of Campania (a Region of Southern Italy), focusing on the participatory action-research methodology and writing their own report. The sub-area where my team has been working is called “Litorale Domizio”, which starts at the very North of Napoli and ends at the southern border with the Region of Lazio. That area, Castel Volturno in particular, hosts several African communities who share the place with the locals. Prostitution, racial discrimination, work exploitation and poverty, plus the presence of many criminal organizations makes oppressive and hard the living, leading to a significant social detachment between local people and the land they are living in. The main tasks have been coordination, logistics and planning all the aspects of a social research; data collecting, data analysis and final writing of the report. This research- action experience has attempted to discover and empower the possibilities and the human opportunities of the local communities: a local unemployed youth was actively trained in the social research methodologies. Show less



Campania dei Festival Foundation; Cultural Enterprise Punta Corsara

• Naples, Italy.

• Specialist Support Worker, Facilitator, Project Coordinator.

  • Mar 2008 - Oct 2008

  The "I crociati" project is a Community social work developed in Scampia (Naples), whose plan is to bring together theatre actors with a group of marginalized Roma families and enahancing their artistic skills by deeply valuing their culture. The project itself is designed to conclude with a theatrical event with the trained group, to be held in the very illegal encampment where the ethnic group lives. However, the real mission has been the facilitation of communication and cultural understanding between the people involved through the organization of multiple trust/team-building meetings. The unexpected active participation led some of the Roma people to reach some deep accomplishments, such as self-confidence, autocritisism attitudes and true willingness to use the final show as a cathartic pretext to share their open minded integration concept. During the theater workshops the encampment's eldest woman (also known as “the grandma”) would sing of the painful past her people suffered and of the hopeful future ahead. The show (based on “The Birds” of Aristophanes) was an absolute hit: many people from civil society came to whatch it, changing their perspectives about the Roma ethnic minority while getting happily fed in an highly convivial setting catered from a women group. Show less



“Chi rom e... chi no” Onlus; Mercadante Teatro di Napoli; Teatro delle Albe Ravenna.

• Scampia, Naples, Italy.

• Social Worker, Youth Support Worker.

  • Oct 2005 - Jun 2008

  "Arrevuoto Scampia-Napoli" is a co-operative theatrical project that has started in 2005 and has involved about 100 young people coming from different parts of Napoli (city center and periphery), aged 8 to 20 years, with extremely different backgrounds and income brackets: working all together with their diversity, prejudices, different skills, and bringing to the public an explosive alchemy. The specific “theatrical dimension” of the project was guided by Marco Martinelli and his Teatre delle Albe di Ravenna with his so called “non-school” methodology, a theatre-educational practice designed to “rub together” adolescents with tradition: “a game consisting in giving new life to the dramaturgic structure of the text” by resuscitating acient texts and enhancing the youth's improvisation. Family support, community support, coordination and pedagogical work have been the main activities of my team's specific social work: to lead children and adolescents at the theatrical workshops constantly has meant working with their families and undertaking their social issues. Scampia is a suburb with high safety risks issues, extensive illegal drug trade, poverty and many others social/cultural related problems as well as a wonderful and creative self-strength. In this extremely challenging situation, the synergy created between civil society, artists, social actors and schools has been so powerful and inspiring that the project, after the mandatory three years schedule, has now become autonomous. Show less



Il Pioppo Onlus

• Napoli, Italy

• Youth support worker, Specialist skills tutor, Social Worker.

  • Oct 2003 - Jun 2007

  The After School Program and Family Support Project was established in the Saint Lorence district of the central area of Naples as a creative and proper answer to the marginalized situations of children and teens aged 8 to 16 "at risk of social exclusion", as the 285/97 Italian law warns: dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are the specific problems children suffers. The district is statitically overcrowded and is affected by a constant illegal drug trade right in the street, between the buildings where the locals live. The substantial "space-related" and safety problem affects the relational and emotional needs of the children and teenagers, obstructing their natural processes of social inclusion and integration, as well as their cultural development and emancipation. Show less