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Workshop n. 8

MENTAL HEALTH : PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION

  PROGRAM THROUGH WORK 

 An experience in Genoa, Italy

CIF ITALIA Speaker/ facilitator:  Corrado Roncallo, born in Genoa, Italy on August 21st 1961, he  obtained the doctorate in Italian Modern Language at Genoa State University, with concentration in Psychology and Human Sciences. Then he attended several  private courses in Psychology. He is a certified vocational counsellor, Centre de Bilan de Competence in Starsbourg France and he’s certified clinical counsellor , Italian Counselling Association  (SICO) in Rome. He has worked in Foster Home for Adolescents to  prevent social risk and maladjustment of minors. Then tutoring Vocational Training Courses in the field of prevention of drug abuse related to mental disease.

Since 1995 he has been in charge of a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program  in the field of Vocational training and integration into work program for the Mental  Health Service, where is Case Manager Coordinator.

He has been working also as Italian Delegate for the Municipality of Genoa in several trans-European projects  and  often collaborates with schools and Vocational Training Institutes teaching  about rehabilitation programmes through work for mentally ill clients.

In 1997 he participated  in the CIP Program  in San Diego California., working first as Case Manger in San Diego AIDS Foundation and then at Neighbourhood House Association Project Enable Mental Health Clients. The programme was very useful offering the opportunity to work  abroad in the same field, attending, in the meantime,  classes San Diego State University.