ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The ‘right to be well’ campaign has deposited in the Senate of the Republic 72 thousand signatures in support of the proposal of popular initiative law to establish a public network of local psychology services that offers free support of public psychologists in schools, hospitals, workplaces, social services, community homes, sports centers and prisons. The law has worked for three years a group of over 30 university professors. The project, created by the Public Association, has collected in the last 6 months the membership of thousands of citizens and citizens, over 1500 volunteers who had never been activated before along with associations and civic realities present in the municipalities and in the premises throughout Italy. But also influencers, sports and entertainment characters, from Marco Materazzi to Paolo Bonolis, from Olly to Francesca Michielin, from Eduardo Scarpetta to Teresa Cinque. Today in Rome, at the Off/Off Theatre, representatives of the local co-ordinations formed in September in support of the ‘right to be okay’ campaign, to tell these months of work, share data and present the national network of activists who formed. With the signature deposit in the Senate in fact the parliamentary iter of the proposal begins.
At the Off/Off Theatre, among others: Maria Teresa Bellucci (viceministra del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali), Francesco Zaffini (chairman of the Senate Social Affairs Committee), Maria Antonietta Gulino (president of the National Council of Psychologists), Maura Latini (president of Coop Italy), Marco Perduca (director of the Luca Coscioni Association), Michela Marzano (Filosofa, university professor, writer), Alessia Filippi (Argento oli A day of work closed by the intervention of Francesco Maesano (national coordinator of the campaign Right to be well).
“We start from here to try to really change things, to ask our country to invest on itself, on its human capital that with two million Neet is the real unexplored natural resource that we have at our disposal, our reserve of hydrocarbons,” says Francesco Maesano, national coordinator of the campaign Right to be well. “We want to invest in the minds of people because it is our oil, the only road that Italy has to grow – continues –. We struggle to broaden the horizon of rights because it is not, as someone says, a voice of expenditure or a secondary element. With the rights you give opportunity to those who do not have them, you create value where there was no: with the rights you eat. Investing immediately in the public and universal intervention of psychology in our classes and workplaces means eradicating exclusion, educational poverty, mobbing, bullying. It prevents violence but above all promotes the growth of each community by putting everyone in the best conditions to study and work in healthy and productive environments.”.
Among the places of communities where free and public psychological service is indispensable there is no doubt the school, where the presence of class psychologist in school hours can work in an perspective of information and prevention regarding the dynamics of violence and prevarication. This is why, in support of the initiative, Coop Italia has descended in the field with the ‘Dire Fare Amare’, started at the beginning of 2025 and which aims at the obligatoryness of affective education in schools as a tool of prevention compared to the spread of gender violence, but also regarding other manifestations of discomfort. Coop and Proposed Committee of the Law traveled together with a collection of signatures aimed at members and consumers in 40 Coop stores in different Italian cities. A decisive boost to achieving a common goal. “It was a great teamwork, a collective commitment started in October to which all our consumer cooperatives participated, alongside the Promoter Committee and its activists – says Maura Latini, President Coop Italia –. Our sales outlets hosted the Presidents for the collection of paper signatures but also helped raise awareness and spread support for online collection. He led us to support a proposal of law that goes in the right direction with an intervention aimed at all those who live situations of discomfort but also in a perspective of prevention that we consider now unstoppable for young generations.”.
Another important and significant support has come from the Luca Coscioni Association that has always been fighting for psychological well-being to be a fundamental right of the person, like that of physical health. “The Luca Coscioni Association has recently included among its priorities mental health by insisting on the need to focus attention on people compared to today’s premine on the drug. Bringing territory psychology throughout Italy wants to recognize that psychological well-being is a fundamental right to ensure where people live, study, work. For years the Association has been proposing the opening to psychedelic therapies that can complement the most innovative psychotherapeutic approaches to mental health. The proposal of popular law provides an opportunity to involve institutions in a competent debate in order to conquer adequate deliberations in the matter of all-round mental health,” says Marco Perduca, manager of the Luca Coscioni Association.
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