1. CASE STUDIES CASE STUDIES City City of of Crotone Crotone Laps & Raps Laps & Raps

2. PROJECTS Evita Centre H-sport BENEFICIARIES Seriously handicapped children and young people from 3 to 21 years

3. SOCIO-ECONOMIC INTRODUCTION Sexv.a.% Male1.56389,11 Female19110,89 total1754100,00 Provincial dates Crotone’s City Council has a percentage of 33.64% of the provincial total number of disabled people

4. City of Crotone N. 392 seriously handicapped people Law 104/92 Class of age 3-21 years Sex Male31 Female18 Tot 49

5. Centro Evita City Council of social aggregation for seriously handicapped people Open from 2004 -- 10 months a year from Monday to Friday for six hours a day Users n°40 Financing Law 162/98

6. Partnership Crotone City Council Region Calabria Crotone’s Uisp in cooperation with the national Uisp, coordinator of the handicap sector UNITALSI, Blind Union,of the Association for deaf-mute people. Schools

7. Accessibility Consignment of the Evita Centre through a public call in which social cooperatives and associations have taken part. Since 2004 to the present day,the Centre is run by UISP

8. Operators N° 1 Social animator N° 1 teacher for each subject N° 12 volunteers of the national civil service N° 2 auxiliaries ASL psycho- social equipe

9. Offer of services, activities Animation and recreational Games –expressive activities Painting, manipulation of clay and other substances to make and shape things Music and singing education ITC and use of technologies with didactic equipment Civic education Psychological support for parents

10. Objectives Development of sensorial-perceptive and cultural capacities and skills improving : Interpersonal relations Development of behaviours and communication capacity Ability to perform a role in an autonomous way

11. Methodology 1° phase: meeting with families and integration into the group 2° phase of socialization and improvement of the psycho-cognitive capacities 3° phase civic education and knowledge of the territory

12. Service impact It has consented : Forms of aggregation between adults and minors Running of users in difficulty Improvement of the familiar relations Users’ more autonomy and independence

13. H-sport For seriously handicapped children and people from 3 to 21 years Centre of recreational sport activities and games, civic education Open from 2001 to the present day for 10 months a year for 2 hours on alternated days Users n° 40 with characteristics of serious handicap : autism,Down syndrome,mental age inferior to the anagraphic one

14. Partnership Primary schools and first level secondary schools of the city Uisp National Centre, coordinator of the handicap sector, associations UNITALSI, Crotone’s City Council Blind union Deaf-mute association

15. Activities courses motory activities

16. Operators Motory sciences teachers UISP cooperators and operators volunteers of the national civil service

17. Objectives Through the various movements, which are proposed, making all people involved acquire : better motory capacity linked to space and time with the help of various materials and a recreative-sport equipment Users’ better capacity of social aggregation.

18. Methodology Playing Active experimentation Observation Operative methodology DEBRIFING

19. Means at disposal Periodical meetings with parents Vision of the individual social dossier/personal file Check and revaluation of the adopted techniques

20. Impact Parents have realised thet H-Sport offer of services was completely different than a physio-therapeutic centre,since it goes beyond the specific exercise High interest, shown by the people involved, in the performed activities

21. Users have acquired : a better motory capacity, a better aggregation capacity A better capacity in performing movements and actions in the direction of the pre-fixed objectives