SUPSI in collaboration with La Filanda, the City of Mendrisio and the Mendrisio Cantonal Library is organising an event entitled ‘Poverty and Social Work’.

The event, promoted by the Associazione Ticinese Lavoro Sociale (ATLaS), takes its cue from the research carried out in Mendrisio on ‘Population in a situation of vulnerability’ and intends to address the theme of the interactions between social work and growing poverty, as well as that of the impact that poverty, a rising phenomenon, generates in accompanying people in a situation of fragility.

The event will be attended by Spartaco Greppi, Professor and Head of the SUPSI Competence Centre for Labour, Welfare and Social Research (CLWS), and Tiziana Madella, Director of the Department of Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the City of Mendrisio.

Programme

18:00 - Greetings and welcome by the organisers

18:10 - Tiziana Madella, Social services and poverty, what challenges? The experience of the city of Mendrisio 
What poverty? What impact on services, on operators, on the territory?

18:30 - Spartaco Greppi, The changing society and its tensions, between professionalism and social work discipline 
Working with Complexity: Facing the challenges of operating in complex contexts, where social, economic and cultural dynamics are intertwined

19:00 - Discussion with attendees
Social Interventions and Poverty: Experiences and Perspectives of Field Workers

19:30 - End of the evening and refreshments