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Social Cooperative Activities for Vulnerable Groups - EDRA

Deal with the craving and create with wood

Project/initiative | Italy
The proposed project is aimed at drug addicts and the territory of the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, who need specialized interventions for the promotion and prevention of mental health. The project aims to integrate group therapy for learning to cope with craving and the carpentry workshop, which is called Made (Im)perfect. Made (Im)perfect is the…

The proposed project is aimed at drug addicts and the territory of the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, who need specialized interventions for the promotion and prevention of mental health. The project aims to integrate group therapy for learning to cope with craving and the carpentry workshop, which is called Made (Im)perfect. Made (Im)perfect is the brand created within the social carpentry workshop of the Ortica Day Center. Each object is a handmade unique piece, each with its own history, its origins, its own characteristics: just like all of those who work on this project.
With the purchase of these products it is possible to economically support the care pathways of people who have social and psychological frailties. The objects are created by the people who participate in the proposed healing activities, including group therapy about craving.
The organisers want to propose and implement in the area: how to learn strategies for managing the restless mind (when under the effect of craving) and create in everyday life.

In the carpentry objects created you will find imperfections, different dimensions and perhaps some errors: this is what makes us unique and special.

We create unmistakable and unique wooden products, mixing INVENTIVENESS and MANUAL SKILLS,
to make the living spaces personalized.

We believe that wood looks like us,
it is a weather resistant material,
but at the same time ductile and transformable
by careful hands.

We, with our differences and fragility, are committed to giving a second chance to the scraps from which the object you are holding in your hands is born.

This second chance that we give to objects is reflected in the nature of the subjects, who aspire to create a life worth living for themselves.

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Mental health matters through restorative art

Programme | United Kingdom, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Spain
The project aims to raise awareness of the potential of art and restorative justice in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental illness. Mental Health Matters through Restorative Art (MHM) aims to bring together a cross-sector, strategic partnership of organisations to support innovation in the adult education field by creating, piloting and disseminating educational…

The project aims to raise awareness of the potential of art and restorative justice in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental illness. Mental Health Matters through Restorative Art (MHM) aims to bring together a cross-sector, strategic partnership of organisations to support innovation in the adult education field by creating, piloting and disseminating educational material and tools tailored to the needs and realities of mental health professionals, restorative justice practitioners and artists in the participating countries (the UK, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Hungary) and across Europe. MHM is also designing and accrediting e-courses that enhance the skills and knowledge of adult learners, supporting in this way the setting up of, and access to upskilling pathways.

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