GENOA (ITALPRESS) – The “From signs to dreams – Bright Sky Edition” initiative has arrived in Liguria: the agreement signed by the Libellula Impresa Sociale Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation to train social and healthcare personnel in order to recognize signs of violence of gender will start in the region with the Ospedali Galliera Hospital. The project provides training courses dedicated to health and social workers to identify the signs of violence as quickly as possible and use suitable relational tools to approach people who suffer episodes of violence and make them safe. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, in 2022 there were 14,448 visits by women to the emergency room with indications of violence, but there is a concrete possibility that there were many other cases of women who were unable or unwilling to declare that they had been victims of violence. These data emerge from Galliera: compared to 2023, compared to 314 visits to the Emergency Room Psychologists’ Clinic, there were 135 women victims of violence (64 Italian, 71 foreign). In the first 4 months of 2024, compared to 82 visits to the clinic, 38 were of women victims of violence. The data is in line with the first 4 months of 2023. Of these 38 women, 20 have suffered violence from a partner or ex-partner. The objective of the project is also to activate a real intervention and protection network made up of organisations, associations, bodies and services in the area, as well as to create a network between participating hospitals to encourage the exchange of best practices and discussion on a highly topical social phenomenon. In the case of the Ospedali Galliera Hospital, the Emergency Department, the Gynecology, Obstetrics, Traumatology, Paediatrics and Orthopedic Surgery departments will be involved in particular.
Staff training will be carried out by the Libellula Foundation, having already tested the “From signs to dreams” treatment project in previous years on the staff of the ASST-Gaetano Pini-CTO of Milan and having replicated it in 6 other editions in the Milan area. “I am extremely happy to see this ambitious project, which the Libellula Foundation has been working on for some time, come to fruition: involving hospital facilities throughout Italy is a unique opportunity to create a protection and support network for victims of violence. The collaboration with the Vodafone Foundation , with whom we share values and objectives, has been decisive and innovative”, declared Debora Moretti, President of the Libellula Foundation. In fact, as a tool to support social-healthcare personnel and people who suffer episodes of violence, the Vodafone Foundation will make available “Bright Sky”, the free app, developed in collaboration with CADMI – Casa delle Donne Donne Battrettate and Polizia di Stato, which provides them with concrete resources and tools. Also a useful resource for relatives, loved ones, colleagues, associations and people who are close to those who suffer gender violence, Bright Sky provides information on the different types of violence and allows users to gain greater awareness on how to manage your situation. The app also offers a mapping of support services dealing with abuse, both locally and nationally. “The realization of this project, the result of collaboration with the Libellula Foundation, demonstrates that creating an ecosystem of private and public partners, united by a common objective, can multiply the positive impact of tools such as our Bright Sky app which has the objective to combat gender violence through knowledge and awareness. And it is precisely for this reason that we believe it is essential to support healthcare personnel through specific training, to identify the signs of risk situations and intervene promptly and correctly, so as to protect those who suffer. abuse and violence”, explains Adriana Versino, President of the Vodafone Foundation. “The emergency room is a place par excellence where sooner or later, in the course of the history of mistreatment, the woman and all the victims of violence arrive. It therefore represents a link (sometimes the first) in the chain of places and actions that woman, first and foremost, travels and completes and which constitute the start of the complex path of exiting a violent relationship – declares the Director of the Emergency Department of EO Ospedali Galliera Paolo Cremonesi – Access to the emergency room, especially in the short time following the The attack suffered is a very delicate and particularly profitable moment to begin to talk about the situation of violence that the victims suffer. The intervention is based on the interdisciplinary logic that sees the collaboration between nurse, doctor, psychologist, healthcare assistant and also the work in network with the anti-violence centres, the territorial services of the Municipality of Genoa, the prosecutor’s offices and the police. The appropriately trained medical and nursing staff verify the extent of the physical damage suffered by the woman, when the violence suffered is declared, and is able to “listen” to the unsaid, i.e. those traumas of a psychological/emotional nature, which are often not verbalised”. “The Liguria Region welcomes projects which, like this one, combat gender violence – declares the Councilor for Health Angelo Gratarola – Promptly recognizing the signs that the victim of a terrible crime like this brings with them is important. This makes it strategic. interdisciplinary training that this initiative offers for Galliera. Thanks therefore go to the two Foundations that gave life to this path with the hope that a collaboration can be started that can also extend the project to other Ligurian hospitals”. – Photo col/ Italpress -(ITALPRESS). sat/com 22-May-24 14:00 .
