Fattore comunità is a project carried out by the ACLI of the Metropolitan City of Turin that are the leader, with its patronage services and CAF, together with the Unione Sportiva Acli and the two cooperatives Project Education and Solidarity.

The project provides a network of services and territorial proposals that facilitate the daily management of the family and support it on issues related to health, home care, bureaucracy, taxation, home and its unforeseen.

The goal of community factor is to achieve an experimental model of community welfare based on the realization of integrated places where families can receive services, support each other and delegate care tasks in order to regain time/energy to assume a role of social and cultural actor of the territory, thus becoming also a generator of sociality that stimulates exchange and dialogue between people.

The project consists of three different types of activities:

– family services: assistance and support services for the use of welfare services;
– pre vocational training courses and workshops aimed at people with a certain fragility who have moved away from the labour market;
– community activities: strengthening community ties through opportunities for mutual assistance between families.

Factor Community acts in the district between Lingotto and Mirafiori, neighborhood very rich in initiatives but in which poverty is unfortunately present: It is therefore addressed both to people who have been expelled from the labour market and to young people who have somewhat lost hope of finding employment.

To date and despite the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 1300 families have been offered services and courses and workshops for about a hundred people have been activated. Among the latter ten are women, especially foreigners, who want to enter the profession of family assistant.

The others, about 90, are young people, who, through workshops conducted by experienced animators, have acquired a specific training on social animation and community animation.

Starting from 2020 there were also two events in the District as:

– a Trash Challenge: a job with a hundred young people caring and cleaning their neighborhood from waste;
– a cultural event with seminars, theatrical performances on the theme of social participation and environmental care.

During the Covid were suspended some workshops and pre professionalizing courses because, being mainly people with a certain fragility, “it is essential to center the educational relationship to avoid not having the added value that is given by working on the group so from being able to have an experience that also increases one’s self-esteem and not simply acquire theoretical skills“, declares Raffaella Dispenza – President of the ACLI of Turin.

In the coming months it is expected the implementation of other initiatives and even small events that will serve to regain that familiarity with relationships as the pandemic has somewhat forced everyone to a forced isolation or at least to see the reports from a certain distance.

Watch the new video of the project to learn more.

Fattore Comunità is part of the 15 generative welfare projects of Torino Social Factory program of the City of Turin, co-funded by the National Metropolitan City Operational Program and the European Union, European Social Fund, made as part of Torino Social Impact.

For more information on the Torino Social Factory program and the other 14 projects that are part of it go to this link.