LibrAzione
LIBRAZIONE COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
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Librazione was founded in December 2020 through the merger of two historical cooperatives, Libra (established in Ravenna, 1985) and RicercAzione (Faenza, 1987). It has 36 members and about 90 workers/collaborators, mostly women with degrees in humanities and psychology. It has been a social cooperative since 1994.
Librazione works, plans and implements proximity actions and innovative services aimed at promoting and supporting the common good: active listening to communities is one of its priorities.
All activities are carried out through the experimentation and implementation of educational, orientation, and psychological methodologies, and through the exploration of communicative and artistic media as occasions to foster opportunities for individual and group growth. Its organizational system is transparent and certified: it continuously checks meaningful parameters and implements improvement actions to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Librazione manages projects and activities in agreement with municipalities, public companies, mainly in the Romagna area and the Emilia-Romagna region. It carries out projects on ministerial and European Union funding lines, foundations, and collaborates with various organizations. It also offers services to individuals and companies.
Librazione operates in the following areas:
ORIENTATION AND GROWTH
AIMED TO YOUNG PEOPLE
We support young people in periods of transition and in their choices. We promote: active job search; entrepreneurship; European and international mobility paths; active citizenship paths and participative processes of young people in their life contexts.
The core of the area are the Youth Information services (Informagiovani) with advisory services, that co-design actions in collaboration with schools, universities and training institutions.
EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL SYSTEMS
AIMED TO YOUNG PEOPLE
Our goal is to give innovative relational responses, not just assistance, by strengthening existing resources in the household and in the territorial context toward a community welfare.
We carry out individual or territorial educational actions for minors and we offer support and projects for multi-problem families with minors, all of which are reported by Social Services or on the order of the Judicial Authority.
PSYCHOLOGY AND THERAPY
AIMED TO INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
We offer psychological and psychotherapeutic services to all citizens and communities with social and behavioral difficulties, to ensure and ease the access to this type of service and promote it both socially and culturally. With the project named “Muoviti” we carry out counseling for abusive men, with the aim of fighting and preventing gender-based violence.
INTERCULTURE
AIMED TO MIGRANTS
We take care of migrant citizens, with services that aim to promote welcome, inclusion and intercultural dialogue, and collaborate with the territorial network to implement innovative reception policies. Special attention is given to the female dimension of migration and to the younger generations.
COMMUNITY AND INCLUSION
AIMED TO CITIZENS AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE
We facilitate citizen participation, focusing on caring and activating processes to develop individual and community potential. We promote the accessibility of citizenship rights, we ease access to services and job placement, we implement interventions to fight severe marginalization/exclusion and homelessness and we support dependent people/non-self-sufficient people and their families.
GENDER EQUALITY
AIMED TO ALL THE PEOPLE
We promote actions to improve the relationship between gender identity and its impact in the professional, educational, private, and public sectors, in relation to housing well-being. We also offer support to women who have suffered or are at risk of forms of violence, mistreatment, stalking and abuse. We carry out workshop activities with schools and neighborhoods to promote the culture of respect for all people.
CULTURE AND TERRITORY
AIMED TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES
We promote projects that aim to develop individual capacities and at the same time grow communities, where culture and information strengthen the active involvement of citizens. To achieve this goal we organize ourselves in the management of libraries and cultural centers, the creation of events, and the establishment of artistic and cultural workshops. For local governments, we manage information and reception services in order to improve the access to municipal services and the use of digital tools.
SOCIAL INNOVATION
AIMED TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
Social innovation is about implementing a new and different approach to social problems and the internal and external dynamics that characterize an institution, organization or community. It also means introducing new technologies in the management of a service, in co-designing and thus changing traditional organizational forms in order to make a product or service more effective and sustainable. In order to promote innovation, we carry out consultations and interventions for companies.
Librazione is certified UNI EN ISO 9001. It is qualified as a Reception Institution of the Universal Civil Service; as an organization and sending body, within the framework of the Community Program Youth – Action 2 – European Voluntary Service, at the National Youth Agency; it is registered in the Register of Associations and Bodies of the General Directorate of Immigration and Integration Policies of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and in the National Register of school-work alternation paths with high school institutes in the province of Ravenna.
Coop. Librazione is a sending, hosting, and coordinating organisation in the Erasmus + and ESC actions.
It has been operating for years within European policies, carrying out various activities related to raising awareness of the concept of citizenship in the local community, especially among the younger generations and to safeguard cultural heritage of minorities and women rights.