Gruppo Arco

Gruppo Arco, a Type A + B Social Cooperative and Social Enterprise, has been operating since 1997 within the regional network of social welfare and health services in Piedmont. It works in collaboration with the Municipality of Turin, local health authorities (ASL), and social service management bodies, with whom it operates under accreditation and contractual agreements.

Within these frameworks, Gruppo Arco manages a therapeutic community for the rehabilitation of individuals with substance addictions, a parent–child community, a SAI community for unaccompanied foreign minors, a day center for people with intellectual disabilities (in joint partnership with another cooperative), and several apartments dedicated to the social reintegration of mothers with children and individuals with addiction issues who have completed their therapeutic and rehabilitation pathways.

Since 2009, the Cooperative has expanded into hospitality services (a student hostel and social housing), operating within the field of social housing, services for people experiencing homelessness (including the co-management of an evening soup kitchen), and health-related services, such as the Polis outpatient medical center.

Since 2016, Gruppo Arco has entered the elderly care sector through the management of a Residential Care Home (RSA) and has also become active in the prison sector, working with incarcerated individuals with substance addiction problems.

From 2018 onward, the organization has significantly expanded its community-based projects related to addiction services, including participation in the co-design of the Local Addiction Plans of the ASL City of Turin. This expansion also included the merger by incorporation of the LENAD service, a historic psychotherapy clinic offering personalized support and treatment for individuals with pathological addiction.

In recent years, Gruppo Arco has actively promoted the development of community welfare in the areas where it operates—particularly in the metropolitan area surrounding Turin—while also managing several social service help desks throughout the city.

Professional expertise is combined daily with the core values that guide Gruppo Arco’s work, inspired by the founding principles of the cooperative movement: mutuality, solidarity, democracy, commitment, community spirit, care, and strong ties to the local territory.

Born out of—and sustained by—a close relationship with the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Gruppo Arco continues to collaborate with the Lasallian Brothers and actively promotes and embodies the fraternal and solidaristic principles and message of the Congregation.