The Maccacaro Day Center is a semiresidential facility for the care and rehabilitation of people with mental disorders and difficulties in social integration. The center has been housed since the 1990s in the rooms of a small school dating back to the early 1900s, one of the neighborhood schools that provided primary education for children, when the population was growing tremendously and the state had begun to guarantee schooling for all.
The history of the rehabilitation of people with mental disorders in Italy cannot be separated from the figure of Franco Basaglia, a pioneering psychiatrist who helped close asylums and introduced a system that, with all its flaws, represented a revolution in treatment.
Rehabilitation treatments are done at the center mainly through group therapies developed according to the techniques of psychosocial rehabilitation.
The Maccacaro Center has had and still has many collaborations with city entities such as Buskers, UISP, theater companies and artists.
