06/20/2023 – Welcoming, listening, guiding and accompanying: these are some of the words that can tell the innovative experience of Community pointalso starting in Valli Taro and Ceno district dell’Local health authority of Parma. Last June 15 at theBorgotaro hospitalin fact, the party started training course aimed at the voluntary associations that will manage this space, active from next autumn; it is a place where it will be possible to weave a network of support and support for people, especially those with frailties.
Orientation on health and social-health services, help with small bureaucratic procedures, information and listening function, but not only: in this free space animated by volunteers it will be possible to plan activities to do together or small solidarity actions. Is called “community empowerment”, which is a set of activities by people who take action to positively influence the quality of life in their community. The project, which was also organized in Valtaro by theAusl with the collaboration of Csv Emilia, of the Joint Advisory Committee district and support of the Union of the municipalities of Valli Taro and Cenoof the Municipality of Borgotaro and ofAsp Rossi-Sidoliprovides for an initial phase in which the representatives of the voluntary associations will follow a training course, at the end of which the experience of the Community Point will officially start, with a specially created room inside the polyclinics, on the ground floor of the hospital Valtarese.
“The Community Point – explained the Director of the Ausl Valli Taro and Ceno district Josephine Rossi – it is above all a new opportunity for collaboration with the world of volunteering, which fortunately is deeply rooted and represented in our area. His goal – continued Rossi – is to listen to and bring out the main needs and requirements of citizens, especially in the most fragile segments of the population.”
“Let’s also start in Valtaro and Valceno with this important project – he commented instead Simona Tedeschi by Csv Emilia – with the aim of making this listening and orientation point active within a few months, the second in the province after that of the Vaio hospital. At the moment we have already collected the adhesion of thirteen volunteers, but we still need help. I invite all who are interested – concluded – to become part of this project.”