Speak with me

Speak with me project aims to develop a theoretical-practical pilot path that can be created and then re-proposed to students, teachers and parents in Turin schools with an experimentation phase in Moncalieri, in particular the ISS Majorana which in recent years has often been affected by cases of suicide among students.
The project stems from the awareness that juvenile suicide is a socio-health emergency with devastating consequences for communities, but too often overlooked and underestimated, linked to a situation of malaise and suffering exacerbated by the Covid-19 emergency and that rarely schools, institutions and communities succeed to manage and prevent, lacking the right tools and often blocked by fear and fear of emulation.
However, the evidence shows that keeping quiet is by no means a strategy that improves the situation. Often then, those who deal with children at risk of self-harm or even suicide do not know how to behave or what to say. Educators, teachers, parents and young people rarely have a clear idea of ​​what mental health is, how to best manage their emotions, how to recognize in oneself and other signs of stress, burnout and excessive fatigue because it is drifting towards situations in that you end up losing control of your actions is a gradual process that people often lose total control over.
The Speak with me model wants to encourage the training of people such as teachers, educators, parents and young people who, thanks to a path of training and work on themselves, can also become gatekeepers: sentinels in their communities, families, classes, friendships and social relationships to identify the malaise and suffering that leads to risky behaviors in their children, students and friends and thus be able to help them in the right way.
In addition to the experiential and psychological support dedicated to the younger generation, the project is also implementing the activities: two paths realized with the methodologies of Playback Theatre and Social and Community Theater; a streaming screening of the film "5 Days Out" organized with the Turin Museum of Cinema Association for 300 young people; a series of meetings with parents and teachers in Milan, Venice, Rome and Ancona; and a methodological document to reproduce the "Parla con me" pilot project in schools in Turin and Piedmont.