Supports in the territory

Self-help for visually impaired young people
On the basis of the many years of experience of the self-mutual-help group for the visually impaired of adult and senile age, a new self-help group aimed at young visually impaired people aged between 15 and 27 years was born in Padova, with the support of the Regional Center for Visual Rehabilitation of Low Vision, the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired of Padova and the Association of Street Psychologists. The group is based on the principles of self-mutual-help, group experiences for people who share the same problem coordinated by a facilitator. The group is open to anyone interested (in the case of participants under the age of 18 with written consent signed by both parents) with face-to-face meetings at the Regional Center for Visual Rehabilitation, one of the Italian excellences in rehabilitation medicine. Meetings are held in person approximately once a month.

Contacts:
Regional Center for Visual Rehabilitation of Low Vision, 
via dei Colli 4, Padova
phone: 3472440685 Cristiano Draghi
Email: cristiano.draghi@libero.it
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Cisv
CISV is an independent, non-profit international association, affiliated to UNESCO, which offers the opportunity to girls, boys, boys and adults to experience the charm and richness of cultural differences.
Cisv firmly believes, in fact, that investing in the interaction between boys and girls with different cultural backgrounds, promoting opportunities for constructive confrontation while respecting different points of view, helps them to respect and understand diversity, recognize similarities, develop self-awareness and thus reduce the possibility of conflicts.
Website: www.it.cisv.org

Contacts:
padova@it.cisv.org
vicepresidente@cisvpadova-en
www.facebook.com/CISVPadova

Today and Tomorrow ETS  Foundation
Fondazione Oggi e Domani was established on 28 June 2022 following a survey carried out in the provinces of Padova and Rovigo on disability support, also through a participatory process, promoted by Fondazione Cariparo, which involved numerous families of people with disabilities, third sector bodies and local institutions. Read more: www.fondazioneoggiedomani.it

"Let's connect the territory" is a project of the Foundation, a dedicated format, through which Oggi e Domani opens its doors to citizens and hosts different realities, creating a space in which people with disabilities can also tell their point of view and the value of first-hand experiences.

The Foundation has created an  anonymous and short-to-fill  questionnaire to collect the point of view of brothers and sisters of people with disabilities (the so-called "siblings"), adults and the territories of Padova and Rovigo, in relation to:

• the role they play in the family of origin
• the supports they would feel necessary in the present
• their perception of the After Us and the future. 

The results will help to guide future activities and to understand if it can be useful to build initiatives dedicated to them.

Contacts:
ETS Today and Tomorrow Foundation Headquarters
Via Arco Valaresso, 32 - 35139 Padova
email:padova@fondazioneoggiedomani.it
Phone:327 2274172

In-Beyond
In-Oltre is a social promotion association (APS) campus in Albignasego (PD) that carries out projects, services and initiatives of a social and cultural nature and that wants to promote the culture of social inclusion through the creation and enhancement of opportunities for meeting and socialization between people. The methodology used is based on practical experiences that encourage the construction of a participatory community in which everyone, starting from their possibilities, can feel they belong.

Contacts:
In-Oltre – Association for social promotion
via Damiano Chiesa 6, 35020 - Albignasego (PD) 
tel. 388-4214729 
email: info@in-oltre.org 
Facebook: facebook/InOltre.associazione

OverLimits
OverLimits is a group of graduate friends that promotes exchange and contact, through all possible communication channels, between people with and without hearing disabilities, students and non-students. This group has been consolidated above all through relationships born and raised at the University: its members face with determination the obstacles that life can pose by overcoming their limits with great strength, helping each other despite distances, transmitting to everyone the positive message that limits, in fact, can be overcome brilliantly.

Contacts:
https://instagram.com/OverLimits17
Email: overlimits17@gmail.com
mobile: 3497335141 preferably SMS and WhatsApp (Silvia)

 

Oltremusica
Oltremusica is a project focused on music and disability and wants to be first and foremost an opportunity for inclusion and meeting between different people.

Youth Committee of Uici Veneto

It is a group of young blind and visually impaired people, between 18 and 35 years old, from the Veneto region.
Each province has its own coordinator who organizes activities at local and regional level, creating a dynamic environment full of opportunities.

It organizes many activities ranging from sport, to culture, to adrenaline-pumping experiences and autonomy camps. For example, ice skating, climbing (in the gym and on rock), guided tours of cities and museums, go-karting, theater and communication courses, meetings with sexologists, psychologists, influencers and Paralympic athletes.

Outside the Youth Committee, the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired is responsible for helping members who need it, providing support to increase autonomy inside and outside the home (through guidance, mobility and personal autonomy instructors), help to read and study easily, support for everything related to pension practices, and much more.

For any information or question, you can contact the coordinators of the Padua campus:
Martina Andreella martina.andreella@studenti.unipd.it
Maria Esposito maria.esposito.1@studenti.unipd.it
https://www.instagram.com/uici_veneto?igsh=MW9uN3Z6Ynk5cmVxdw==
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071489769790

V.i.s.o.

V.i.s.o. is a project of inclusion and sharing conceived by the Study Center Man and the Environment and is funded by the Caripo Foundation. It is aimed at families and groups with people with disabilities inside. For them, the V.i.s.o. team plans outings, excursions, sports experiences, to get to know new places, new people, play sports, have fun. The V.i.s.o. team chooses places and routes and prepares practical and cultural guide cards for visiting museums, monuments, palaces, churches, parks, squares. Sports and entertainment routes and experiences are described in detail. Architectural barriers are also indicated to make it possible to make personalized choices tailored to specific needs.
On the sidelines of the basic project, V.i.s.o. organizes outings for groups with similar needs and accompanies them to get to know Padova or to try new sports in an atmosphere of meeting and inclusion.

Contacts:
Study Centre Man and the Environment
via N. Copernico 15, 34124 Padova
tel.: 049 880 2773 – 375 562 3940
Email: info@viso.cloud

Student Services Office - Inclusion

via Venezia 6, 35131 Padova
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tel. 049.8275038 (at the time indicated below) 
inclusione.studenti@unipd.it

The Student Services Office receives every day during opening hours to the public.
It also offers ONLINE and face-to-face interviews by appointment.