The institutional framework of the communities is the Silvabella Social Cooperative which began the work of welcoming minors and mothers with children in the community in 2013 in the Pavia area. In 2016 the Silvabella Social Cooperative continues the development of community work by founding the Pezzettino communities for minors in Milan. The community is expanding rapidly and from 2019 it gradually moves to more natural scenarios, in the greenery of Varese and Casciago (Va) which totally supports its ideas and values. Today there are two communities in Varese and they welcome children from 0 to 12 years and parent child nucleus.
The Silvabella Social Cooperative was founded in 1997 as a non-profit association, with socio-welfare-educational services; intervenes in the entire area of Lomellina, Pavia, Oltrepò Pavese, Milanese area and in the Varese area.
Silvabella values the principles of the cooperative culture and for this reason:
employs qualified and motivated personnel in a continuous training process, promotes multidisciplinary team work, promotes the development of social networks through the dissemination of a culture of listening, comparison, involvement of diversity, development of a sense of community , promotes the experimentation of innovative social-welfare-educational intervention models and their transferability.
Communities arise from the commitment of several operators who have been working for some time in the helping professions: psychologists, educators, pedagogists.
The Pezzettino team is made up of professional educators, a coordinator, support staff dedicated to cooking and housekeeping.
Il Pezzettino has within it a clinical team which includes psychologists and pedagogists who dedicate themselves to care through constant clinical work and discussion with the team of the University of Padua with which the Silvabella Social Cooperative and specifically the communities Pezzettino signed an agreement in 2019.
The director of Il Pezzettino daily integrates the educational intervention with her supervision and her skills; the psychologist offers children a space of their own in which to be able to signify everyday life and their own history.
We introduce you to our team
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DANIELA COSCO
psychologist, pedagogist, family mediator specializing in psychotraumatology, she deals with the scientific direction of the Cura, Il Pezzettino project and the direction of the communities.
"Approaching pain is a deeply human experience that leaves traces of tenderness and love forever". -
CLAUDIA TURCONI
psychologist and pedagogist, specialized in parenting and psychotraumatology, she is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Catholic University in Milan. She is in charge of the scientific direction of the Il Pezzettino project and is the psycho-pedagogical supervisor for the communities.
"It takes a flower to make everything" -
CAROLINA MARCHETTI
psychologist and psychotherapist within the Il Pezzettino project. She offers children and mothers a dedicated space in which they can live an everyday life and their own history and begin to process the trauma.
"A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness he had as a child, when he played”
Friedrich Nietzsche -
PAOLA PICETTI
After graduating with a degree in vocational education from the University of Insubria, she began her career in the support sector at Il Pezzettino. She is responsible for coordinating the Il Pezzettino community.
"Always be like the stars...
take care to shine" -
NOEMI CETRARO
Having graduated in vocational education from the University of Insubria, she began her career in the support sector at Il Pezzettino. She is responsible for coordinating the Il Pezzettino Blu community.
“Everyone has a fairy tale inside them that they cannot read on their own. They need someone who, with wonder and enchantment in their eyes, will read it and tell it to them.”
-Pablo Neruda