Social policies. Mental Health Week starts on October 5th
Milan, October 4 2019 - On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, the Municipality of Milan, in collaboration with Municipality 1, with the Third Sector associations and the Milanese mental health and addictions departments, launches a week of initiatives - from 5 to 13 October - dedicated to the daily work of care in the field of mental health through creativity, art, projects aimed at enhancing the protagonism of the people involved.
The initiatives, open to citizens, aim to raise awareness of mental health issues to overcome the stigma that often accompanies mental distress.
“This week – stated the councilor for social and housing policies Gabriele Rabaiotti – aims to be a moment in which to put people with mental health problems at the center of the discussion of operators and institutions who have always been committed to guaranteeing them a dignified life and, at the same time, at the same time, a way to organize initiatives during which those directly interested can express their point of view and participate in moments of leisure designed especially for them. It is necessary to move forward with ever greater conviction on this path, working to guarantee all the necessary attention and protection but at the same time courageously opening up the city, recognizing everyone's space".
The very rich program of the week opens with the conference entitled "The alliance between family members and carers: a dialogue on psychotropic drugs" which will be held on Saturday 5 October starting from 9 am at the parish of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Piazza Don Luigi Borotti 30 (for registrations: info@ass-diversamente.org).
On Monday 7th at 11am it will be the turn of the guided tour of the MAPP (Paolo Pini Art Museum, via Ippocrate 45) with poetic incursions.
Tuesday 8th, starting from 9am, will be dedicated to the environmental restoration of the walls of a building in Corso di Porta Vigentina 15/A which will involve one hundred volunteers and 25 people with mental health problems, with the contribution of the Retake association. Among other things, from 10am there will be a cooking workshop at the Lighea foundation and from 11am a shared lunch at the CPS in via Girola.
On the 9th we will talk about actions to prevent suicide from 9am to 13pm at the Lattuada auditorium in Corso di Porta Vigentina 15/A.
On the 10th, International Mental Health Day, the Lattuada auditorium in Corso di Porta Vigentina, the CAM of Municipality 1 and the Bazlen Gardens in Corso di Porta Romana 106 will host workshops, book presentations, theatrical performances, meetings and collective art workshops Dis“ease” during which everyone will be able to print their own postcard by experimenting with typographic art with a manual press.
On Friday 11th there will be, starting from 16pm in via San Maurilio15, the tailoring workshop and, in via Senigallia 60 starting from 17pm, the Oktober Fest.
Saturday 12th will be the turn of the football tournament at the Corvetto sporting club in via Fabio Massimo 15/4 and, finally, on both Saturday and Sunday the week will end with "Tutti matti per il riso", the fifth edition of the national awareness and fundraising by Progetto Itaca, with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan. The initiative will be held in 19 Italian cities with over 12 thousand kilos of rice. In Milan the volunteers will be present in Piazza XXV Aprile, Largo La Foppa, Piazza Gramsci, Corso Lodi, Via Ansperto and Piazza Sant'Ambrogio.
The complete program for the week is available at https://www.comune.milano.it/aree-tematiche/servizi-sociali/progetti-e-pubblicazioni/ohi-vita-ohi-vita-mia.
For information, the email address is available pss.giornatasalutementale@comune.milano.it.
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Updated: 04/10/2019