The Social and Health Consortium of Pistoia in Italy focuses on the following key areas of intervention and services provided:

Areas of Intervention

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Homeless
• Older people
• People with addiction
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Mental health
• Social justice
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Victims of domestic abuse
• Migrants
• Social Integration
• Beneficiaries of minimum income
• Poverty
• Recipients of care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Providing social services
• Transformation of care models
• Promotion of systemic change
• Role of the social worker
• Integration of technological tools
• Issuing of guidelines and policies for the district’s councils
• Home care services for the elderly and dependent people
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Child protection
• Telecare
• Programs for the prevention of addictions in young people
• Assistance in cases of energy poverty
• Financial support
• Social insurance
• Fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering.
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems