Partnership as a resource. Integration between social educational and health services to meet the needs of children and families in weak conditions

Abstract

This research paper analyses the manner in which institution work together in order to meet the educational and development needs of children and families. The contribution presents a survey regarding the ways that the Integrated University Health Authority of Trieste and the Municipality of Trieste work together to develop a partnership for the joint care of vulnerable children. The methodology used is intended to investigate how the above-mentioned services have worked to integrate
themselves. We employed documentation produced by the two institutions as well as in-depth interviews with the relevant individuals. The interviewees have expressed the positive results obtained thus far and the critical issues still to be addressed.