MEnter everyone leaves for the holidays, they remain. The operators of Telefono Azzurrofor 38 years next to teenagers, have listened to children and teenagers in difficulty. Young and very young who, in the summer, with closed schools and also educators on vacation, are lost without their reference points. Listening services are thus strengthened in summer. And in line in line with the habits of young people. From today it is in fact possible to download the 19696 and 116000 services in the stores for Android and iOS.
Through the apps it is possible to contact any day and time with the volunteers of Telefono Azzurro who are ready to collect and manage requests for help.
Summer, the most dangerous season for minors
When the boys are alone, as happens more often in summer, “they close themselves in themselves and are more led to take refuge behind a screen. In this way they become vulnerable to a world that hides several pitfalls»Explains Ernesto Caffo, president of Telefono Azzurro.
Not only that: Summer is also the period in which the reports and cases of disappeared children intensify. “This is why we decided to further strengthen our listening services making the dedicated apps and iOS available in the Android stores,” continues Caffo.
Telefono Azzurro for the summer 2025, listening apps dedicated to children and adolescents
The 19696 app is dedicated to listeningto support and psycho -pedagogical advice to children, adolescents and adults in uncomfortable situations. It is the consideration of the listening line 1.96.96, for children, teenagers and adults, which welcomes requests for help from the national territory H24, 7 days a week.
Through the platform Click and reportallows you to report to an analyst team the potentially harmful or inappropriate illegal online content for children or teenagers.
The app 116000the European number dedicated to the reporting and management of disappeared minorshas activated the geolocation function of the user who contacts via app (both on call and in silent mode). In addition, it has an information section dedicated to the Missing Children Europe international network.
Telefono Azzurro and the right to listening to childhood
Born in Bologna in 1987, Telefono Azzurro offers a concrete response to the “right to listening” recognized to the child by the international agreement on the rights of the childhood signed by the United Nations. Its listening and intervention lines are telephone and online (mobile, web, chat, apps, social networks).