Signed yesterday morning, in the Council room of the Municipality of Pescara, was the appendix to the memorandum of understanding already signed in 2022 which saw the Municipality as protagonists, with the Disability Department, the Pescara Local Health Authority (Child Neuropsychiatry and Sigad Services), the Chamber of Commerce and the Misticoni Bellisari High School. The provincial school office of Pescara, Confindustria Abruzzo Medio Adriatico, Cna Pescara and Liceo Marconi also became part of the partnership.
The recipients of the project are students with disabilities, pursuant to Law no. 104/1992, who attend the third, fourth and fifth year of the secondary schools that are partners of the project, who will have the opportunity to live an experience within the companies but also within Confindustria and the Cna, as announced this morning . The school will support the students and will monitor to ensure effective attendance of the training activities.
“The project concerns the inclusive network created for students with disabilities who, with this project, have the opportunity to acquire skills that can be used in the world of work and therefore improve their quality of life”, said Mayor Carlo Masci. following the signing of the protocol. “I’m happy because it’s another demonstration of the collaboration between administration, local health authority, schools and the business world. For our city it’s a great moment because it promotes the inclusion of disabled children in society, it gives them a social opportunity, yes goes beyond the concept of people being followed only on a medical level. Thanks to the Social Policies sector, subsidiarity is not just a beautiful word but concreteness”.
The mayor was echoed by the councilor for Disability Nicoletta Di Nisio, promoter of the agreement: “The network we have created is growing, we are giving young people the opportunity to enter the world of work and we are making their families proud”, underlined the councilor thanking the partners. “The “One Health” model is what we are inspired by within the ASL, and in this case we aim to express the students’ potential, to increase their self-esteem. People with disabilities have important talents and I give my patients I learned a lot”, commented Vittorio Di Michele, director of the CSM North Area Complex Operational Unit.
“School is increasingly inclusive, it gives every child the opportunity to express their potential and with these paths students can give the best of themselves”: these are the words of Pierangelo Trippitelli, director of the Chieti and Pescara territorial area of ‘Provincial school office, while for the school director of the Marconi high school Giovanna Ferrante “the kids have many talents and we give them an opportunity, an extra gear”.
“This project has the ability to bring together territory, school and businesses, and as Cna, in addition to carrying out the matching, we want to directly benefit from these resources”, said Luciano Di Lorito, director of the Cna. “Confindustria has already hosted one of these guys”, noted vice president Marco Belisario, speaking of a “laudable initiative” and underlining that “businesses have shown themselves willing”. “A project of inestimable value” for Linda D’Agostino, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, ready to “raise awareness among businesses. This is the objective that our organization has set itself: to promote the culture of inclusion in companies”.
Also present at the signing were Annarita Pensato for the Liceo Marconi, Filomena Papola for the Liceo Mibe, Giovanni Giancaterino of the Cna, Claudia Pelagatti for Confindustria, Daniela Puglisi of the provincial school office, Elena Gennaro and Chiara Linda Rossi for the ASL (Child Neuropsychiatry and Sigad) and Gianluca De Santis for the Chamber of Commerce. For the Social Policies sector there were the Manager Marco Molisani, the head of the Service Piera Antonioli and the official Greta Massimi.
