PARTNER nr.2

ISTITUTO PROFESSIONALE PER I SERVIZI SOCIALI

The Istituto Professionale per i Servizi Sociali was founded in Salerno in 1963 with the name “Istituto Professionale Femminile”, in 1991 it changed name and training specialities acquiring a new and modern profile.
It is located in a part of the town characterized by a series of  emergencies related to its social, economic and cultural situation. The town, in fact, is undergoing a complete renovation as a result of the change of the economic direction of the area.
The students who attend our school come from the whole province and most of them commute daily from  small towns and villages surrounding Salerno because our didactic plan is almost unique in the region.
The study activities of our school aim at creating  trained personnel to be employed in the social, educational and cultural services, by working with people of different ages, by contributing to the development of individual potentialities, by aiming at the integration of disabled people and wherever  a social community rises and develops.
Unfortunately the majority of our students lack study abilities and techniques, come from a culturally deprived environment and families, do not foster cultural improvement and are at risk of social exclusion also because of poor communication abilities,  insufficient mastery of the mother language and a related scarse vocabulary.
As a consequence  the main  goal of our school is firstly to help our students’ integration and participation in society and secondly train them to help other people in the same process, to reach the same goals.