OLCreate: Italy Unibo COER - Mapping the context : Introducing the case - "Mapping the context"

Italy Unibo COER - Mapping the context

2. Introducing the case - "Mapping the context"

Dreamcatcher Project

First, you will read the description of the Dreamcatcher Project, a Counselling Center of LHS (Local Health Service) of Forlì working in adolescence field through an assets based approach. Through the interview transcriptions excerpts, we will describe the context analysis methodologies that Dreamcatcher operators put into practice in their context to keep in mind all the bonds that they have created with the community. The maps you can see attached in Section 3 - The Artefact ("Dreamcatcher Project Map" and "Network Adolescence Map"), will allow you to understand the network within the project and with the community. You can also see the video of the Dreamcatcher project that collects the narratives of the operators and users who describe the activities carried out and the atmosphere that is breathed inside the Counselling Center.

We will introduce you to the "Understanding Context: a look to the theory" presentation which will provide information about the different context analysis methodologies. Next, in Section 3 - The Artefact, we will introduce you to the “Mapping the Context Tool" which is based on mapping activities build on practice of the Dreamcatcher operators which you will use to analyse the Come Out Project we will present to you. You will be able to analyse the Come Out network and consider issues of connection within the territory and community resources. You will also be asked to consider the issues raised in relation to your own professional practice by answering a set of critical questions about the content of the COER.

Come Out Project

The Come Out project is an intervention by LHS of the city of Parma that was born with the aim to involve all community actors who, in different ways, are working with adolescence, to initiate a collective reflection on adolescents’ new needs, develop a shared understanding, as well as to empower all the actors by developing a shared approach in the interventions targeted to this population in the context of the local community.

More specifically, the goal of the “Come out” project is to develop a system which can detect, at an early stage, adolescents’ with emerging problems in the local community, by engaging the resources of different types of community actors, including those ones who are not health professionals (e.g. informal stakeholders).

Clicking on the hyperlinks below which will download a word document version of the Italian case study report and the online presentation "Understanding Context: a look to the theory".

Click on the hyperlink to download a pdf document version of the Italian case study report.