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Table of contentsTable of contentsTable of contentsTable of contents

1.1.1.1. MethodologyMethodologyMethodologyMethodology

2.2.2.2. Quantitative analysis of the main characterisQuantitative analysis of the main characterisQuantitative analysis of the main characterisQuantitative analysis of the main characteristics of the projects surveyed tics of the projects surveyed tics of the projects surveyed tics of the projects surveyed

3.3.3.3. ThemeThemeThemeTheme----based discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activities

3.1.3.1.3.1.3.1. Institutional networksInstitutional networksInstitutional networksInstitutional networks

3.2.3.2.3.2.3.2. Educational activities aimed at offendersEducational activities aimed at offendersEducational activities aimed at offendersEducational activities aimed at offenders

3.3.3.3.3.3.3.3. Preparation for release/rePreparation for release/rePreparation for release/rePreparation for release/re----integration/transition managementintegration/transition managementintegration/transition managementintegration/transition management

3.4.3.4.3.4.3.4. Training of officers and trainersTraining of officers and trainersTraining of officers and trainersTraining of officers and trainers

3.5.3.5.3.5.3.5. Work inside and outside Work inside and outside Work inside and outside Work inside and outside the prison and involvement of production facilitiesthe prison and involvement of production facilitiesthe prison and involvement of production facilitiesthe prison and involvement of production facilities

3.6.3.6.3.6.3.6. Specific groups (women, minors)Specific groups (women, minors)Specific groups (women, minors)Specific groups (women, minors)

4.4.4.4. ConclusionsConclusionsConclusionsConclusions

EnclosuresEnclosuresEnclosuresEnclosures

1. Summary of project forms received and Description Forms of the activities 1. Summary of project forms received and Description Forms of the activities 1. Summary of project forms received and Description Forms of the activities 1. Summary of project forms received and Description Forms of the activities

carried out for the inclusion of offenderscarried out for the inclusion of offenderscarried out for the inclusion of offenderscarried out for the inclusion of offenders

2. List of activities identi2. List of activities identi2. List of activities identi2. List of activities identified for the thematic areas of the ESF Transnational fied for the thematic areas of the ESF Transnational fied for the thematic areas of the ESF Transnational fied for the thematic areas of the ESF Transnational

Network ExNetwork ExNetwork ExNetwork Ex----Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP)Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP)Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP)Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP)

The author of the text is Alessio Scandurra, a researcher in Law Sociology at the Giovanni

Michelucci Foundation of Florence

The survey of the activities as well as the processing of the data and the enclosed forms were

coordinated by Giovanna de Mottoni and carried out by Gianluca Calzolari, Francesco Chiurco,

Paola Ferri, Giovanna Mangano of the Isfol Transnational Cooperation Support Facility.

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1. M1. M1. M1. Methodologyethodologyethodologyethodology

This report outlines the survey carried out under the initiative of the ESF National Working ESF National Working ESF National Working ESF National Working

Table on the reTable on the reTable on the reTable on the re----integration of offendersintegration of offendersintegration of offendersintegration of offenders, whose objective was recording good practice for

the inclusion of offenders, as identified by the central and regional Administrations, both

participating and non participating in the ESF National Table.

The objective of the survey was to acquire an information framework relative to the most

significant experiences accrued in Italy within the European Programme - as well as other

lines of funding - to be used in the framework of the activities of the ESF Transnational

Network Ex-Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP).

The activities described herein represent a reservoir of information on the most effective

experiments which the Community of Practice intends to disseminate and transfer

amongst the various players, with a view to contributing to the improvement of the

inclusion processes of the target group.

The projects, attached to the end of this report, have been mainly brought to our

attention by the central Administrations and by the ESF Managing Authorities after a

selection, using a survey form drafted by the ESF Table for each activity.

The picture which appears must be interpreted in view of two considerations. The first

consideration is that the survey takes into account only the projects sent, and not the

entirety of activities carried out in the Country for the social inclusion of offenders. The

second consideration is that these projects are of an "extraordinary" nature and

accompany activities which are ordinarily carried out by the Administrations belonging to

the ESF Table for the inclusion of these subjects. The overall activities ordinarily carried

out by these Administrations, no matter how significant in terms of their innovation, their

effectiveness and the relevance of the need they address, therefore remain excluded from

this survey.

Finally we note that due to requirements connected with the Italian participation in the

ESF Transnational Network Ex-Offenders Community of Practice (ExOCoP), it was

necessary to compile a reduced list (Enclosure n. 2) of projects, subdivided by thematic

area of intervention, to be submitted to the coordinators of the Network and the

organisers of the theme-based events scheduled for the coming months. The list

attached to the end of this document includes some projects which have been considered

to represent the overall activities surveyed and all the Administrations and territories

which took part in the survey, and they highlight the experiences of greatest interest,

also according to those who filled in the forms.

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2. Quantitative analysis of the main characteristics of the projects surveyed2. Quantitative analysis of the main characteristics of the projects surveyed2. Quantitative analysis of the main characteristics of the projects surveyed2. Quantitative analysis of the main characteristics of the projects surveyed

Firstly, Table 1 shows a summary of the 90 projects surveyed, indicating the

Administration that sent them and the thematic area of intervention of each project. As

you read the table take into account that many projects involve more than one area,

which explains why the sum of the figures in the last column to the right is far greater

than the total number of projects. What is evident is the large variation of answers

received from each Administration: some reported a limited number of projects, whilst

others have sent a significantly greater number of forms, postponing a further selection

of the projects submitted.

It must also be taken into consideration that when this document was drafted about a

quarter of the projects submitted to us were still ongoing.

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Table 1Table 1Table 1Table 1 Bodies taking part in the ESF TableBodies taking part in the ESF TableBodies taking part in the ESF TableBodies taking part in the ESF Table

(x) = number of projects

submitted

Min. of

Education

(6)

Min. of

Labour -

Directorate

General for

Guidance

and

Training

Policies

(DGPOF)

(1)

C.I. Equal

ISFOL

(8)

Min. of Justice

– Department

of Penitentiary

Administratio

n (DAP) (9)

BAS (3) Prov.

of

Bolza

no

(3)

EmiliaRom

agna

(6)

FVG (1) LAZ

(1)

LIG

(3)

LOM

(1)

MAR

(1)

PIE

(11)

TUS

(31)

VEN

(2)

Leonar

do (2)

Gru

ndt

vig

(1)

Thematic areasThematic areasThematic areasThematic areas

Educational activities aimed at

offenders

5 1 4 1 3 2 3 1 2 1 1 6 25 1 1

57

Institutional network 1 1 7 3 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 3 11

1

38

Training of officers and trainers 3 2 1

2 1 1 1 6 9

2

28

Preparation for release/re-

integration/transition management

3 1 5 2 1 4 1 3 9

1 30

Work inside and outside the prison 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 3 9 1

24

Specific groups (women, drug addicts,

sex-offenders)

1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 2 1

15

Involvement of production facilities 1

6

3

1 1 6 1

19

Diagnosis, Profiling, Assessment 1 2 1 2 1 2 9

Family relationships and re-integration

1 1 3 1

6

Mentoring 1 1 3 5

Assessment 1 1 1 1 1 5

Minors 1 1 1 1 1 1 6

Arts within prisons 2 2

E-learning 1 1 2

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The second noteworthy data, shown in Table 2, relates to the juridical nature of the

bodies managing the projects submitted.

Table 2 Table 2 Table 2 Table 2

Juridical nature of managing bodiesJuridical nature of managing bodiesJuridical nature of managing bodiesJuridical nature of managing bodies

Public bodies Private bodies Private social bodies

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This is data of great importance which highlights the significant presence of projects

managed by private law bodies (private bodies and private social organisations). We will

come back to this theme in detail later, but we can at least mention how the massive

presence of private bodies among those managing the projects submitted, together with

the data in Table 1 relating to the number of projects pertaining to the theme of

institutional networks, immediately highlight the central importance of the relationship

and coordination between institutional players and civil society for inclusion policies.

Table 3Table 3Table 3Table 3

Type of project activitiesType of project activitiesType of project activitiesType of project activities

Activities aimed

at people

Activities aimed at

systems

Other Transnational activities

Ministry of

Labour, Health

and Social

Affairs

1 1 1

Min. of Justice 8 3 2

Min. of

Education

6 6 6

C.I. Equal 6 6 3 6

Leonardo 2 2 2 2

Grundtvig 1 1 1 1

Basilicata 3 3 3

Province of

Bolzano

3 1 1 1

Em. Romagna 6 5 5 2

Friuli V.G. 1 1 1 1

Lazio 1 1

Liguria 3 1 1

Lombardy 1 1 1

Marche 1 1 1

Piedmont 11 10 10

Tuscany 30 30 19 2

Veneto 2 2

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The data in Table 3, relating to the type of project activities carried out, are also

significant. In this case we must highlight the fundamental balance between activities

aimed at people and activities aimed at systems. The data seem to strengthen the

interpretation proposed above relating to the presence of private bodies and the

relevance of projects on institutional networks. Notwithstanding the required central

importance of the offender, in order to create effective inclusion interventions, many

projects felt the need to intervene also on the organisations in charge of the inclusion of

offenders, and on the relationships between these organisations. It seems to us that

these data, in accordance with the previous ones, indicate that interventions on the

characteristics of the overall system of inclusion today have a strategic value for its

effectiveness. In any case, this is a theme which we will be considering in greater detail

later.

3. Theme3. Theme3. Theme3. Theme----based discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activitiesbased discussion of the activities

With regard to the principal thematic areas of the activities, it seemed useful to identify,

on the one hand, the aims that the regulatory framework entrusts to the various types of

institutions involved in the execution of the sentence, and on the other hand to identify

which challenges act as structural obstacles to the realisation of these aims, challenges

which the projects submitted often bring to the fore in the survey form under the section

"Identification of problem areas". From this point of view we hope that this analysis can

offer a framework of the principal problems which characterise the introduction of

activities aimed at the re-integration of offenders, as well as indentifying some useful

strategies, suggested by the projects themselves, to overcome such problems.

However, before addressing the specific areas it is perhaps useful to reason globally on

the objectives that our legislation assigns to the serving of the sentence and on the main

challenges in reaching these objectives.

The aim of serving sentences is a well-known theme. Our legislation adopts a multi-

functional concept of punishment, where a re-educational aim, solemnly stated by art. 27

of the Constitution, is certainly accompanied by other traditional functions of the penalty,

including the protection of society, also established for the protection of constitutional

rights. Two consequences stem from this situation, both established by the Constitutional

Court already since 1974 (judgement No. 204). On the one hand there is an out-and-out

right of the offender to receive re-education, and on the other hand the penalty must be

of a flexible nature, which should be modelled according to the treatment needs of the

convicted, also affirming the consequent right of the convicted to be assured that "the

continuation of the punishment should be re-examined in order to ascertain whether the

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duration of the sentence already served has been successful in its re-educational aims".

These constitutional principles have been implemented by the legislator with the approval

of the penitentiary reform law (law No. 354 of 1975) and subsequent modifications

(particularly law No. 663 of 1986, the so called “Gozzini Law”), in order to prepare the

statutory (principally the system of alternative measures) and institutional instruments

(with the introduction of the Surveillance Magistracy), without which those principles

would today just be "empty boxes".

Finally, it is worthy of mention the fact that although the objective of "re-education",

varyingly described by the Constitutional Court as "re-integration in the economic and

social context" or "re-socialisation", is clearly the most relevant aim of this survey, given

the nature of the projects examined, the other characteristics that a penalty must have

should not be considered as opposed to re-education, but rather, in some cases, as

being instrumental to its achievement. This is particularly the case with the other

provision of art. 27 of the Constitution, which states that penalties "cannot be contrary to

the principles of humanity". It is clear that the respect of the fundamental rights of the

convicted and his/her re-socialisation are two entirely different, yet deeply connected,

concepts. In fact the former is a limitation of the latter, in the sense that the re-

educational aim cannot be achieved by measures which breach fundamental human

rights, but it is also a pre-condition for it, in the sense that re-educational activity is

hardly imaginable within a context that does not assure the offender that his/her penalty

will be executed fully respecting the fundamental rights of the person.

These considerations give us an opportunity to mention some of the major challenges to

the realisation of the re-educational aim of the penalty; all projects submitted, without

exceptions, aim to overcome such challenges.

Firstly, let's consider some data. Notwithstanding the current serious overcrowding of

prisons, with a population of inmates that has now achieved unprecedented figures in

Italy, it must be generally recognised that since the beginning of the '90s the presence of

offenders in our prisons has always been greater than official capacity, with the exception

of the short period of the general pardon. This has created conditions of objective

difficulty for the application of the current regulations. In addition to this we must

emphasise that since the beginning of the '90s the number of drug addicts in jails rarely

fell below 14,000 units, representing a percentage ranging between 26% and 30% of

inmates, while the number of foreign prisoners more than doubled in the same period,

from about 15% at the beginning of the '90s to 37% currently. It is clear that these two

phenomena, as well as others, create great challenges for those in charge of preparing

treatments which are meant to carry out the re-educational aim of the penalty (Source:

Department of Prison Administration - Office for the Development and Management of

the Automated Information System - Statistics Division).

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To worsen this difficult situation, the resources available are often not adequate. On the

one hand detention facilities are inadequate, with over 60% of the about 205 institutions

used (to which institutions for minors must be added, also being managed by the

Penitentiary Police) dating to periods between the 17th and 19th Centuries, posing clearly

evident logistic challenges (A. Alfano, 15th October 2008 - Festival of the Penitentiary

Police Corps, published in www.giustizia.it). Furthermore a lack of personnel in the

Penitentiary Police has been ongoing for a long time now, reaching 16% of the theoretical

amount of personnel, while the condition of the education and treatment personnel is of

no less concern (Source: Department of Penitentiary Administration (DAP), edited by

Pianeta Carcere: www.pianetacarcere.it).

It is obvious that, in this situation, the challenges for the realisation of the aims expected

by the serving of the sentence, in compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and

of the current regulations, are huge. In examining the projects submitted it appears clear

that the network of players involved in the inclusion activities for offenders has been

aware for a long time now of the aforementioned challenges, attempting to mobilise all

the resources available for this aim and activates synergies and connection processes for

the strengthening of all networks and relationships which could facilitate these inclusion

programmes.

This consideration is supported by the data relative to the heterogeneity of the

partnerships involved in the projects examined and by the role that has been played,

within these partnerships, by many private bodies who have undertaken the task of

managing bodies. Indeed many of the projects examined have been managed by private

bodies and this, in our opinion, demonstrates that the state and local Administrations

more and more often make use of organisations that add professionalism and further

expertise to those of the administrations themselves, enriching the opportunities for

treatments and their variety, while at the same time defending their own expertise and

enhancing their own operations.

In order to understand these aspects more clearly, let's move to a more detailed

examination of the projects focused on the thematic area of Institutional Networks.

3.1 Institutional networks3.1 Institutional networks3.1 Institutional networks3.1 Institutional networks

A first point to mention relative to the projects received involving activities on the theme

of institutional networks is the significant quantity of this theme. Out of 90 projects

submitted, 38 carried out activities involving networks. This is the second thematic area

by number of projects, following the theme of training for offenders, which involved 57

projects, but after all it must be emphasised that training for offenders is a sort of

secondary activity found in most of the projects examined. This is in fact an activity which

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is certainly present in many projects, but it often has an instrumental nature, needed to

realise the specific aims of the projects, such as in the projects targeted toward specific

groups of offenders. On the theme of institutional networks, which was a priority for

many projects, innovative and interesting proposals were elaborated in terms of

collaboration between players and coordination of services for the re-integration of ex-

offenders.

The entirety of these activities does not only meet a real necessity, evident from the

aforementioned data, but is also an objective that has been adopted at the institutional

level by the sentence execution system. Suffice it to mention an important memorandum

of some years ago (Memorandum 3593/6043 of 9 October 2003. Subject: the educational

areas of the Institutions, in order to promote a renewed effort for the treatment activities

in the Institutions) highlighted that "the objective challenges of the Institutions on the

one hand and external resources on the other hand are the two references to be

acknowledged with pragmatism in our project of renewed effort in prison treatment" and

it indicated, among the activities pertaining to the educational areas of the Institutions

"that of the development of activities and treatment projects and the coordination with

the resources of the external community". The construction and strengthening of

institutional networks for the realisation of treatment activities are therefore a part of the

institutional tasks of the Penitentiary Administration, just as they are a part of the tasks

of all Administrations, both local and national, which have responsibilities in the

processes of social inclusion which take place countrywide.

Within this framework, as we have said, many projects have taken place revolving around

the theme of institutional networks, basically following two different models for the

activities.

The first model was adopted by those projects which were focused on achieving the

construction and strengthening of a network of players by means of a very broad and

varied range of activities. Examples are the "Change - active work network" project

carried out in Emilia-Romagna or the "Car.Te.S.I.O.- Prison and territory, Operational

Integrated Systems" project, carried out in Piedmont, where the activities of the project all

seem to be geared toward this objective, attempting to strengthen and coordinate the

interventions aimed at the inclusion of offenders carried out by a broad range of players.

In these cases what seems most interesting is not a specific activity or a particular result,

but the very activity of connection and coordination, since it is a particularly effective

response to the need of resource coordination we mentioned earlier.

The other model that can be identified is that adopted, for example, by the "Task Force

SPI" project in Basilicata and "Performance of advice activities in support of public

employment services to promote work integration of offenders" in the Province of Siena.

The two projects have a common intermediate aim to strengthen and re-address the

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activities of the Employment Services so as to enable them to more effectively meet the

needs of offenders and ex-offenders. This is a theme of extremely great significance (see

also the project "Towards the Building of the Service Charter of the SSCA (Social Service

Center for Adults)" in the Region of Sicily), proceeding to the construction and

strengthening of a network strongly characterised by the intermediate objective desired,

which would be impossible to reach without a close coordination of the subjects involved.

The construction of the network in this case has a merely instrumental function, which is

nonetheless considered absolutely necessary.

3.2 Educational activities aimed at offenders3.2 Educational activities aimed at offenders3.2 Educational activities aimed at offenders3.2 Educational activities aimed at offenders

As mentioned above, most projects involved training activities for the offenders. This

could be largely expected, in consideration of the relevance that training has with respect

to the objectives of the execution of the sentence within our legislation.

As it is known, the Penitentiary Act of 1975 recognised that education has a fundamental

role in the re-educational treatment programme of the convicted (art. 15), both as a tool

for enhancing school education and as a mean of stimulating new interests in offenders,

widening their knowledge and possibly enriching their personality. Training therefore is

seen as a treatment and "transformation" activity, and it is not by chance that article 48 of

the Penitentiary Act and article 94 of the Execution Regulations of 1976 consider

education as an element of assessment for granting conditional sentences and early

release on probation.

The second paragraph of art. 19 of the Penitentiary Act also pays particular attention to

the training of the so called 'young adults', those individuals aged 18-25. Article 45 of

the Execution Regulations of 2000 confirms, lastly, the economic benefits for student

detainees who attend high school and university courses, benefits already established by

the previous regulations of 1976, in order to facilitate participation in school activities

also for those who are in disadvantaged economic conditions, for whom work has a

particular relevance.

The legal framework therefore gives a fundamental role to training and education during

the serving of the sentence. At the same time many significant obstacles are met during

the setting up of training courses for offenders. Firstly these are due to the

characteristics of the offender populations, which we have already partially mentioned.

Two more facts must be added to the aforementioned picture. First of all the length of

imprisonment.

Indeed, it is difficult to design training courses for people who stay in prison for very

short periods or that are there under pre-trial detention, therefore without a clear

perspective on the length of stay. Suffice it to mention that "at the national level, about

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29,000 out of 90,000 entrances in 2007 (i.e. 32%) are followed by release within the

following three days", as stated in research by the Penitentiary Administration

Department (Le Due Città, 30 July 2008). To this we must add that, as of 23 November

2009, 31,177 out of the 65,735 offenders in our institutions (47.4%) were under pre-trial

detention, therefore lacking certain terms for their penalty. Furthermore, as of 30 June

2009, of the 30,549 offenders who were serving a definitive sentence and therefore had

certain terms for their sentence, 9,858 (32.2%) had a remaining sentence length of less

than one year, whilst 19,823 (64.8%) had one lower than three years (Source: Department

of Penitentiary Administration - Office for the Development and Management of the

Automated Information System - Statistics Division).

The second issue is that of the mobility of offenders serving their sentence. It in fact

quite common, for those who are not serving very short sentences, to be transferred

more than once from one Institution to another during their penalty, with significant

damage to ongoing training and treatment activities. To contain the problem, art. 41 of

the penitentiary regulations of 2000, established that if the management believes it is

appropriate to transfer a student detainee, the "opinion of the monitoring and treatment

officers and that of the school authorities" must be sought alongside the transfer

proposal. The transfer therefore should take place, as far as possible, so that the offender

will be able to continue the study course followed and if the transfer is ordered it must

always be justified.

An example of an answer to this issue is the "Chance - S.F.I.D.E. Integrated training

System for offenders of Lazio" project carried out in Lazio, which included the use of a

"mobile portfolio" designed to systematically accompany the pupils on their path and

record results frequently, so as to ensure a form of continuity in case of transfer or

interruption, also facilitating the passage of information from a prison to another, so that

the acquired expertise was not lost and to enable immediate inclusion in the training

courses carried out in the prison to which the offender would be transferred.

More generally, the training courses described by the projects can be split into two

groups. On the one hand, training focused on work, that is cases where training is

targeted above all toward the employment of people and their integration into the work

environment; on the other hand cases where the training courses are designed mainly for

their value as a treatment.

An example of the first kind is represented by the course for "Operator in the production

of metal sections", organised at Imperia prison, targeted toward providing attendees with

a real opportunity for work integration, with the creation, alongside the course, of

connection channels with companies active in the industry.

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As for the examples of training activities characterised above all by their value as

treatment, we can mention the "Fuoriluogo" project of the Judicial Psychiatric Hospital of

Montelupo Fiorentino and the project "Voices from inside – a work guidance pathway for

female offenders" set up by the female section of Trani prison. In these cases rather that

the immediate opportunity for employment of the individuals what is relevant is their

involvement in personalised treatment pathways, to enhance transversal competences

such as self-management, time management and dialogue and the creation of pathways

addressing change, where the occupational spin-off is a last and only incidental

development.

3.3 Preparation for release/re3.3 Preparation for release/re3.3 Preparation for release/re3.3 Preparation for release/re----integration/transition managementintegration/transition managementintegration/transition managementintegration/transition management

It is clear that the aims of preparing for release, re-integration and transition

management should be underlying all activities carried out during the serving of the

sentence. Therefore we considered as being particularly representative those experiences

that were focused on specific activities to accompany the individuals, identifying

mentoring as the specific characteristic of this thematic area.

On this theme the regulation framework is rather poor on guidelines. In art. 43 of the

Penitentiary Act, discussing the release of the offender, it is established that "the director

of the Institution must communicate the expected release at least three months in

advance to the Social Support Council and Social Service Centre of the place where the

Institution is located and those of the place where the individual decides to establish

his/her residence, providing all data needed for the appropriate support activities".

In order to realise this aim the funds of the Fines Fund, purposely created in the

Department of Penitentiary Administration, were aimed at the Social Support Council for

penitentiary and post-penitentiary support to offenders and their families, as well as at

the support and help for victims of crimes. Practically all of these functions were

transferred to local bodies as per Presidential decree No. 616 of 1977, and due to this

reason the Social Support Council did not have time to take form. It is not a coincidence

that when the Execution Regulations of 2000 mention in art. 45 the support to families or

in art. 46 mention post-penitentiary support or in art. 88 assistance to those about to

leave the prison "aimed at solving the specific problems connected with family living,

working and environmental conditions they will meet", no longer mentions the Social

Support Council, referring rather in a more general way to social service centres, the local

services in charge and the associations of volunteers, without specifying either the

organisational modes nor the resources which could be used.

As a matter of fact then the theme of preparation and management of release is by law

left to the rather inconsistent initiative of local bodies, above all through the social

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services; their relation with the Institutions is however very problematic, in particular

when the sentence is served in a place other than where the person is coming from, and

where he/she will return at the end of the sentence. It is therefore not surprising that one

of the critical obstacles often mentioned by officers and offenders is that at the end of

the sentence the released person ends up finding him/herself in a condition of total

disorientation.

Among the projects addressing these issues we can mention the examples of the

"Ancora" project carried out in the area of Biella and the "S.A.L.I.S. Services oriented to

independent living, work and social inclusion" project carried out in Abruzzo. These are

two different experiences, particularly in terms of scale, which share the deployment of a

very broad range of interventions aimed at accompanying the persons during and after

their release from the Institution. Both include interventions to support independent

living and social life, as well as specific mentoring schemes during the phase of

introduction to work, possibly by means of work scholarships or other support measures.

Completely different yet just as interesting is the experience of the "Help desks of the

prison of Bologna". The "help desks" for offenders are a significant presence, although

not widespread, in Italian prisons, and are usually designed to meet the needs of people

during their detention. What has been detected by many projects is that the most

pressing issues for offenders when serving their sentence is not the sentence itself but

rather the aftermath, the preparation for release. Looking for a job or accommodation,

both imperative when becoming free again, are very difficult for ex-offenders and the

support, even just with information and a connection activity with the outside world

which are provided during detention are often extremely precious. The abovementioned

project tries to meet these needs by addressing, already at the design stage, the theme of

transition to work by means of an approach focused on the person and on networking, as

well as through the creation of a connecting link between prison and local area

represented by social workers and the activation of links with reference services. In

comparison with the two projects mentioned above the help desk service is more

connected with the personal involvement of the offender, which probably makes it more

difficult to involve the more marginal tier of the offender population but at the same time

ensures greater correspondence between the service provision and the needs expressed

by the users.

3.4 Training of officers3.4 Training of officers3.4 Training of officers3.4 Training of officers and trainers and trainers and trainers and trainers

The significance of the issue of training for officers is easy to understand. It is clear that

all the aims of serving the sentence, as well as all themes of intervention covered by

these projects, necessarily involve the theme of the know-how of the officers who are

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variously involved in the social inclusion pathways for offenders. Whichever activity or

intervention one desires to carry out during the serving of the sentence, it is evident that

they need the expertise and professionalism of the relative officers.

The experiences aiming toward training the officers working for the inclusion of

offenders take on an understandable significance. Two models can be highlighted for the

experiences surveyed. The first and principal model is that shown by projects such as

“TOOLS IN NETWORK (T.I.N.): an e-net approach to share mediation competences”, a

transnational project on minors' penal mediation or the “Supervision – Training Pathway

for the function of Professional Supervision of Social Services” project carried out in

Tuscany. These are experiences which enrich the stock of expertise available to

institutions operating in the penal sector, creating roles without which these institutions

would not be able to carry out their institutional role effectively. Therefore these are

experiences that enrich the resources of participants and allow them to carry out their

own tasks and functions in a better way.

The case of projects such as "Recycling cycle: recovering and re-using skills and

resources that have been disposed of to develop sustainable communities" from Emilia-

Romagna is different, where the training of officers is aimed at activating entirely new

inclusion pathways which would be absolutely impossible without this expertise. In this

case the occupational opportunities and therefore the possible pathways for inclusion

connected to the treatment of electric and electronic waste materials would have been

impossible to access without the presence of specific know-how. The project provides

the subjects which could take this opportunity with the knowledge necessary to do so and

has indeed opened a new channel along which innovative inclusion pathways can be

navigated.

3.5 Work inside and outside the prison and involvement of production facilities3.5 Work inside and outside the prison and involvement of production facilities3.5 Work inside and outside the prison and involvement of production facilities3.5 Work inside and outside the prison and involvement of production facilities

In view of what has been discussed above it is absolutely to be expected that work plays a

fundamental treatment role within the reform of sentencing carried out in Italy in the

mid-70s. Article 20 of the penitentiary regulations quite purposely established that "the

organisation and methods of prison work must reflect those of work in a free society, in

order to provide the individuals with a professional preparation that matches normal

working conditions so as to facilitate their social re-integration". Work therefore has a

central role in prison treatment, with the purpose of offering offenders the opportunity to

acquire transversal competences needed for an effective work re-integration in free

society. At the same time, those who know the prison environment also know that work

has always served another aim, providing economic support to the offender and his/her

relatives. The offender population has always originated from the marginal layers of

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society and not all offenders have economic tools capable of ensuring themselves and

their families a dignified life during the detention period. The issue is particularly severe

for foreign offenders, who can rarely enjoy support, even of an economic nature, from

friends and relatives; therefore for them work, although casual, during detention means

having some more money to use for their immediate needs or to send back home.

In spite of these basic needs, accompanied by the aforementioned value of prison work in

terms of treatment, work opportunities for offenders are however quite limited, mainly

because of the scarcity of economic resources. As of 30 June 2009, when 63,630

offenders were present in our prisons, only 13,408 (21%) were working. Furthermore,

these data must be interpreted cautiously. Not all "workers" work every day, many work

for a very limited number of hours and most of them for short periods, a few months

perhaps, in order to ensure that the greatest possible number of offenders can access

work on rotation.

If we consider then the tasks carried out by offenders, on the same date only 1,798

people (13.5% of workers) was working for outside employers with organisational

modalities likely to be closer to normal working conditions, so as to "facilitate their social

re-integration" as mentioned by the regulations above. 86.5% of offenders were

employed by the Penitentiary Administration, and 82.7% of these were employed in

services within the prison (meal delivery, cleaning of the section, clerical, etc.) (Source:

Department of Penitentiary Administration - Office for the Development and Management

of the Automated Information System - Statistics Division).

Most of the efforts in providing offenders with an occupation therefore remain the

responsibility of the Penitentiary Administration and they must be realised by means of

the internal services of the prison, which are understandably organised so as to meet the

re-education aim but also the need for economic support of the offender population.

Work within the prison therefore often takes the form of welfare inside the prison, with

functions that are more of assistance rather than treatment.

Due to the complex conditions of the work system within the prison, the projects

submitted are therefore mainly concerned with enriching occupational opportunities for

offenders creating conditions that allow access to work for a larger number of individuals,

whilst trying to ensure that work is carried out with organisational modes as similar as

possible to those found outside the prison.

For example, the "working prison" project of the Calabria Region allowed the

establishment of infrastructure (for flower farming, greenhouse cultivation and pottery-

making) within the three prisons of the region (Vibo Valentia, Rossano and Reggio

Calabria) using detainee labour; this infrastructure today is a pre-condition for the

creation of new jobs. The "Cosmetics Laboratory Practitioner" project at the female prison

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of Venice had a similar significance, and allowed the beneficiaries to use the expertise

acquired on the job market also in similar productive sectors, as well as being included in

the Social Co-operative that managed the project, in particular within the laboratory

inside the prison. Another project targeted toward the widening of occupational

opportunities for offenders was the "Social Co-operative IT2" project of the Province of

Bologna, but this was more projected toward the outside world with the creation of a

"work transition enterprise". This initiative, aimed at helping people who are socially

disadvantaged back to work, sustained the development and growth of a Social Co-

operative that could represent a transition from a protected environment to a "normal"

work environment, offering integrated work and training pathways. This intervention

evidently strengthens the system of social co-operation, which often represents the

principal if not only instrument available to officers for planning occupational

opportunities for offenders, according to needs set out by personalised treatment

pathways.

Within this context we should also mention the "Work in social inclusion of offenders

benefiting from pardon" project managed by Italia Lavoro Spa, which involved the entire

national territory. This project certainly represented the most significant effort realised in

recent years to construct employment pathways for ex-offenders and offenders at the

end of their detention period, especially by using training apprenticeships and providing

incentives for training to companies. This project, designed to respond to the sudden

release of a large number of people following the general pardon of 2006, could not

aspire to permanently increase the occupational opportunities for offenders, but at the

same time certainly represented for many people a real support in the delicate moment of

transition to freedom.

3.6 Specific groups (women, minors)3.6 Specific groups (women, minors)3.6 Specific groups (women, minors)3.6 Specific groups (women, minors)

The last group of projects which is useful to mention is that of projects aimed at specific

groups of users, particularly women and minors. These are projects that try to enforce

the aforementioned principle of flexibility and identification of the best modalities for

serving the sentence, in order to allow for the realisation of its re-educational aim. Article

1 of the penitentiary act immediately sets out that "treatment is carried out according to a

criterion of individualisation with respect to the specific conditions of individuals", while

article 13 establishes that "the penitentiary treatment must meet the specific needs of the

personality of each individual". The need for specific interventions for specific types of

offenders descends from this perspective of individualisation of treatment programmes,

which must be approved by the Surveillance Judge in order to ensure the compliance of

the sentence with laws and regulations.

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One group to which particular attention must be given is the group of minors. If, in

principle, the same regulations applied for adults should be applied to minors, since

there is no specific penitentiary system for minors in Italy, it must also be considered that

for a long time now the Constitutional Court has recognised the special characteristics of

sentences for minors, stating that "a progressive harmonious re-integration of individuals

within society, which is the essence of the re-education aim, must be the absolutely

prevailing objective in the serving of sentences for minors" (judgment No. 403 of 1997).

Therefore it is not a coincidence that several of the projects submitted often exclusively

targeted minors and aimed at enriching the opportunities for their re-integration by

means of a very broad range of activities. The most representative project, among those

submitted, was "Hypothesis of Work" carried out on the entire national territory and

managed by the "Don Calabria" institution of Verona, which carried out activities involving

many of the thematic areas we have analysed thus far, involving about 1,000 officers and

260 minors overall and trying to ensure that "prevalence" of the re-education function of

the sentence that was mentioned before.

Partially different is the condition of women offenders, since there is no need, contrary to

the case of minors, for a particular protection, with the exception of offenders who are

also mothers and who are protected also by art. 31 of the Constitution. If anything the

need for greater attention in the personalisation of treatment pathways for women stems

from the fundamentally male characterisation of prisons. Women started to be put into

prison only in relatively recent times, since for a long term the "deviant" woman was

entrusted to other facilities, generally of a religious nature, which had a much greater aim

of moral education and atonement rather than punishment, and even in recent times the

percentage of women in Italian prison never went over 5% of the total population of

offenders. Female detention therefore is a residual phenomenon, and for this reason it

struggles to affirm its peculiarity within the overall system of sentence execution.

In order to oppose this residuality of interventions, several projects have been created

such as "Women behind the bars" in Lombardy, which aimed to enhance and disseminate

gender policies, a culture of equality and multiculturalism within the prison environment,

by creating and experimenting with innovative work models for male and female working

offenders. The project aims above all to establish new models of intervention for the

increase and maintenance of female work within situations of lack of freedom, models

which are particularly suited to the specific needs of women offenders.

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4. Conclusions4. Conclusions4. Conclusions4. Conclusions

To conclude this short summary of the challenges identified and the solutions proposed

by the projects examined in the field of the social inclusion of offenders, it is useful to

repeat some points highlighted by this survey.

The first point is the institutional networks. A large quantity of projects had as a priority

this thematic area, and great attention was given to this topic by other projects that had a

different principal objective; this demonstrates the central importance of the theme for

the effectiveness of inclusion pathways. We tried to identify the reasons for this great

interest, which can be connected with the fact that currently no player involved in the

inclusion processes for offenders, be it central Administrations or local bodies, is in a

condition to independently ensure the realisation of the re-education aim of sentences.

To allow every offender the enjoyment of a fundamental right of the individual identified

by the Constitution, which is also intuitively a priority for the entire community, is a huge

effort, both in terms of professional resources and economic means, and no subject

seems currently capable of ensuring these independently; on the other hand the current

regulations impose a distribution of authority between central Administrations and local

bodies, with very strict forms of connection.

Within this context the projects attached to the end of this report provide many useful

hints for intervening on this theme, proposing various models of activity, although all

seem to be focused on the need to build linkage instruments between the action of

institutions and the needs of users, which often vary significantly from person to person.

A second aspect that the projects examined clearly indicate is that the networks of

individuals who desire to prepare and manage social inclusion pathways for offenders

must act above all on two fundamental themes, identified also by the regulations as

fundamental tools for the re-educational treatment: training and work. Certainly it isn't

an easy goal to ensure all offenders have access to training pathways and work

experience that have the aforementioned requisites, or that are capable of causing a deep

transformation within the person, steering him/her toward change, as well as offering

operating instruments and knowledge useful for their re-integration into society;

however this is undoubtedly the direction to follow, facilitating the widest possible access

to treatment pathways which seem to ensure the greatest success in the inclusion of

offenders and therefore limit the likelihood that after the sentence is served the persons

reoffend.

Another theme identified as central by the projects surveyed is that of mentoring the

transition from detention to freedom; this is also one of the most difficult to intervene

on. An abundance of documentation shows that detention makes the individual

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unaccustomed to the rules and rhythms of life in society, lowering accountability and

making the person child-like; this is why the transition to freedom is so significant.

Currently, however, many officers and ex offenders complain of the lack of clarity on who

must take care of this delicate phase of the treatment of offenders. The responsibility of

the detention system stops at the prison gates, but at the same time the local bodies

often intervene for ex-offenders only too late and only when their difficulty in re-

integrating into society becomes more evident and therefore more serious. In other

words, there does not seem to be another subject or a network of subjects institutionally

in charge of mentoring people in the period between the last few months of their

sentence and the first periods of freedom, facilitating and supporting their re-integration

into society. Numerous projects have intervened on this theme, showing some useful

strategies for action yet above all highlighting a significant shortfall in our inclusion

policies with respect to this theme.

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DESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTION FORMFORMFORMFORM

Section I Section I Section I Section I –––– Project Project Project Project DateDateDateDate

Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Performance of advice activities in support of public employment services to promote Work

integration of offenders

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany (Province of Siena)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget: : : : € 944.155,52

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other):::: NOP NOP NOP NOP ESF Ob. 3 System-oriented actions 2000-2006 Priority A

Measure B1, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Justice

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from 10.05.2003 to to to to 20.10. 2006

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization:::: Consorzio nazionale della cooperazione sociale CGM

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Paola Piscopo – Manager in charge of Active policies for offenders, Ex-offenders –

immigrants - urban security - Province of Siena - tel.+39-0577-241825 fax. +39.0577.241315 e-mail

[email protected]

Partner/sPartner/sPartner/sPartner/s Provinces of Siena, Turin and Venice

Section II Section II Section II Section II –––– Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project

IdentificatIdentificatIdentificatIdentification of the problematic areaion of the problematic areaion of the problematic areaion of the problematic area

Offenders with few integration opportunities in the short term, who are to serve a long sentence, with poor

vocational skills, a poor schooling level and with work re-motivation problems.

Project aimsProject aimsProject aimsProject aims

The Project pursues three main aims:

• to support prison policy aimed at increasing both internal and external work integration through

offenders’ involvement not only in social solidarity co-operatives but also in profit-making enterprises

and, at the same time, to strengthen work active policy strategies inside/outside prisons in three

provinces in Central-Northern Italy.

• to carry out the analysis of opportunities and challenges related to offenders’ work integration, both

through the promotion of work inside prisons and work integration in enterprises;

• design of a “specific” skills assessment tool for users with very complex needs, such as offenders, useful

for designing internal work integration and training.

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Short description of the projectShort description of the projectShort description of the projectShort description of the project

The Project has carried out a series of activities that have allowed:

• to increase the visibility of Institutions;

• to do benchmarking between Provincial experiences and sharing of best practices between Employment

Centres to the benefit of offenders;

• to raise awareness within local enterprises by promoting the knowledge and involvement in the

initiatives envisaged by the Law Smuraglia;

• to enlarge the network of Employment Centres towards other stakeholders, such as UEPE Municipalities

and enterprises;

• to raise awareness at the Provincial political level;

• to enhance work opportunities inside prisons through social co-operatives or profit-making enterprises;

• to support new work integration projects by means of a more effective co-operation between

Employment Centres and Prisons.

A Business Project has been implemented to set up a saffron-growing farm within the prison of Ranza.

A Business plan has been finalised for the start up of the saffron-growing farm at the Prison of Ranza;

Since August 2006 new job opportunities have been provided to offenders. They have been previously

trained by Consorzio Archè. The 300-hour-long training has been funded by ESF, and the Provincial

authority of Siena. At the end of the Project 9 offenders were hired.

Section III Section III Section III Section III –––– Project Activities Project Activities Project Activities Project Activities

1. 1. 1. 1. ACTIACTIACTIACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x

1.3 personal care services (eg. tutoring for minors in wardship, mentoring

for work integration, …)

x

2. 2. 2. 2. SYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEM----ORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONS

2.1 information and awareness-raising x

2.2 research x

2.3 training/advice for practitioners x

2.4 local network development x

2.5 employers involvement x

3. OTHER3. OTHER3. OTHER3. OTHER

3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x

3.3 dissemination of results x

4. 4. 4. 4. TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

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SectionSectionSectionSection IV IV IV IV –––– BeneficiariesBeneficiariesBeneficiariesBeneficiaries

PRACTITIONERPRACTITIONERPRACTITIONERPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES

A few training sessions have been organized, with the attendance of the Director of the Istituto Ranza, the

person in charge of trainers’ training, the director of prison practitioners, the Manager of the Provincial

Department for Disadvantaged People, the Siena and Poggibonsi Employment Centre officials, and a

representative of the Consorzio Archè.

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total): : : : 9 Italian offenders.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Task Force SPI

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Provinces of Matera, Potenza, Lecce and Benevento – urban areas and surroundings

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 782.019,04

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) N.O.P. ESF 2007-2013 “System-oriented actions for work

integration policies”, Objective1 – action II.1.A

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from:::: 01.06.2006 – 31.10.2006

Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Centro Servizi s.r.l.

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Orsi Simona, Centro Servizi s.r.l., tel. +39.0835.388251, [email protected]


Identification of the problematic areaIdentification of the problematic areaIdentification of the problematic areaIdentification of the problematic area

Difficulties in the integration of disadvantaged people into the labour market and struggle against

discrimination towards them.


� to test specific work integration actions for offenders;

� to promote actions aimed at individuals and enterprises through awareness-raising activities to promote

the integration culture, to support the promotion and implementation of specific actions;

� provide advice to Public Employment Services (P.E.S.) in the Objective1 regions to foster work integration

of offenders to bring about change in P.E.S. roles.

Short descriptShort descriptShort descriptShort description of the projection of the projection of the projection of the project

The Project intended to support a few Employment Centres to start up a few specific actions with a view to

foster work integration of offenders: this aim can be attained thanks to joint efforts between Prisons and

Employment Centres to assess offenders’ skills and to identify the ones required by the market towards

skills matches. A system-oriented action will be put in place to try out specific work integration actions of

Beneficiaries, and more generally, the project aims at the promotion of actions for individuals and

enterprises by raising awareness about the integration culture.

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1. 1. 1. 1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x





2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation

3.3 dissemination of results X



PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 45 practitioners from Public employment Centres and Public employment services....

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 300 beneficiaries including offenders, Ex-offenders and people who benefit from alternative measures to prosecution.

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Section ISection ISection ISection I –––– Project Project Project Project DateDateDateDate

Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Change – active work network

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 228.865

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob. 3 2000-2006 Priority B Integrated Project (3

Project actions)

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from: : : : 1.11.2001 – 27.06.2003

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization EnAIP Emilia-Romagna (the organization has been closed down)

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Paolo Klun Enaip, Bologna, via Scipione Dal Ferro 4, tel. +39.051.257011



� difficulties for offenders to carry out a job;

� lack of work opportunities inside/outside prisons;

� lack of skills and vocational qualifications for the majority of offenders;

� difficulties to match previous work experiences with present market requirements;

� need to have a common point of reference between prisons and local authorities to work out strategies

and projects, by identifying all the necessary regulatory, organization and educational tools to co-

operate in the servicing of the sentence.


� to set up an active regional and local network promoting work and social integration of offenders and

Ex-offenders, through the involvement of local authorities, not-for-profit organizations, profit-making

enterprises, also in the framework of co-operation agreements and protocols;

� to set up an integrated system of actions aimed at providing offenders with new opportunities

inside/outside prisons (social co-operatives, labour market).


The Project has envisaged a few activities:

� testing positive and integrated actions to support work and social inclusion of offenders and Ex-

offenders, also through the development of social enterprises, in order to: design devices/tools in

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support of targeted work active policies;

� designing strategies, solutions, tools to enhance Social co-operatives’ entrepreneurial and production

potentials;

� supporting regional and local networks;

� defining local integrated models and services to support vocational training and work opportunities for

offenders;

� creating local partnerships also through formal protocols; identification of new work opportunities inside

prisons;

� providing offenders and their families with points of access to guidance to the use of already existing

resources and the new ones that will be made available through networking.

Section III Section III Section III Section III –––– Proj Proj Proj Project Activitiesect Activitiesect Activitiesect Activities


1.1 guidance x

1.2 training



x



2.2 research x

2.3 training/advice for practitioners




3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x



SectionSectionSectionSection IV IV IV IV –––– BeneficiBeneficiBeneficiBeneficiariesariesariesaries

PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Since the project is not under way no data is available concerning beneficiaries. Generally speaking, the

project beneficiaries were: Regional, municipal and Provincial Councillors in charge of Training and social

Policies, prison directors, regional prison authority managers.

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total)

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title

Car.Te.S.I.O. – Prigione e Territorio, Sistemi Integrati Operativi/ Prison and Local territori, Operational

Integrated Systems

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action

Region Piedmont

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget €961.377,83

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) C.I. Equal I Phase

Concluded, Concluded, Concluded, Concluded, Duration: Duration: Duration: Duration: from 04.06.02 to 30.06.04

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization

CFPP – Casa di Carità Onlus

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Secondo Tessa CFPP Casa di carità onlus +39.335.7449730, [email protected]

Partner/s: Partner/s: Partner/s: Partner/s: Confcooperative –Regional Union of Piedmont

P.R.A.P. – Regional Office of Penitentiary Administration



The project handled the issue of work and social integration of (ex-) offenders in Piedmont. It started

from the identification of multiple exclusion factors, such as low vocational qualification levels, mistrust

of potential employers and the lack of occupational profiles and facilities to coach these people to be

integrated into the labour market.

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The Project has aimed at:

1. reducing the fragmentation of actions aimed at the integration of Beneficiaries;

2. fostering work integration by diversifying the supply of enterprises ready to hire disadvantaged people;

3. reducing the incidence of logistic and housing obstacles in the Beneficiaries’ integration processes.


With reference to Objective1 the partnership created a network system supported by a local “derivative”

network with the involvement of the 13 LOG (local operating groups including a multiple set of

organizations, such as local authorities, employment Centres and prison social services) present in each

Piedmont municipality where the prison is located. They have been the promoters of the Project, according to

a bottom-up approach, whereas during the implementation phase the Equal budget was allocated to each

LOG according to their local microprojects.

As far as the last two aims are concerned, customised projects have been implemented through scholarships

in a social firm in co-operation with the Agenzia Piemonte Lavoro. Different customised work integration

actions have been performed, such as the supply of vouchers to meet diverse needs of Beneficiaries and

support to find solutions to housing problems.


(Mark the activities that have mainly been carried out in the framework of the Project with an X)


1.1 guidance X

1.2 training



X


2.1 information and awareness-raising X

2.2 research

2.3 training/advice for practitioners X

2.4 local network development X

2.5 employers involvement X


3.1 monitoring

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3.2 evaluation



The Project has taken part in 3 transnational partnerships that have

involved organizations from Spain, Germany, Portugal, France, and

Belgium.


PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES CFPP Casa di Carità onlus:

1 project manager; 3 designers; 6 tutors

Confcooperative

2 Coordinators; 18 Tutors;

PRAP

3 educators; 1 Director

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES1111

Total number of final beneficiaries involved in the

funded project

235 + 400 system practitioners

Total number of final beneficiaries of the ESF National

Board

235

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italians foreigner

s Italians foreigners

(Minors) age 14-21 6666

(Young Adults) Age 18-25 72727272 8888 6666

(Adults) Age > 25 129129129129 10101010 4444

Alternative measures to prosecution 235

Ex-offenders

Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence

Mothers with children

Section V Section V Section V Section V –––– Thematic areas Thematic areas Thematic areas Thematic areas

Networking of Institutions X

Diagnosis, Profiling, Assessment

E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders x

1 The distinction between total number of final beneficiaries involved in the funded project and ESF panel beneficiaries is necessary since a few projects

do not envisage exclusively people under prosecution as beneficiaries.

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Practitioners and trainers’ training

Preparation to release/Re-integration/transition management X

Employers involvement X

Evaluation

Minors

Specific groups (e.g. women, drug addicts, sex-offenders)

Mentoring

Family relations and reintegration

Art in prisons

Work inside/outside prisons

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Section I Section I Section I Section I –––– Project Project Project Project DDDDateateateate

Project title: Project title: Project title: Project title: Sportello Informativo (SpIn) La presa a cuore per un modello integrato d’inclusione sociale

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Liguria (Prov. of Genoa)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 25.000.00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Region of Liguria and Municipality of Genoa

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started in April 2005

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Region of Liguria and Municipality of Genoa

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Spanò Santina, UEPE Genoa, Savona, Imperia

Partner/sPartner/sPartner/sPartner/s

• UEPE of Genoa, Savona, Imperia

• Consorzio social Agorà

• Centro di Solidarietà Ge

• Coop. Sociale il Biscione

• Amici di Zaccheo

• ARCI

• Comunità di San Benedetto

• Croce Rossa italiana

• University of Florence

• Ordine Professionale degli AA.SS. della Toscana

• Unione Evangelica Solidarietà

• V.C. Misericordia

Section IISection IISection IISection II –––– Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project


Fight against petty crime and relapse into crime.


Inclusion and management of local resources; use and enhancement of personal resources.

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Short description of the projShort description of the projShort description of the projShort description of the projectectectect

Results: trust relationship; repositioning in the local community con work integration.

Products: agreements with voluntary associations and third sector coops supporting Sp.In. through its

voluntary workers. Protocol with the Provincial authority of Genoa



1.1 guidance

1.2 training



x


2.1 information and awareness-raising

2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation

3.3 dissemination of results



PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 11 practitioners of whom:

• 1 criminologist of Consorzio social “AGORA”

• 2 educators of Coop. Social “Il Biscione”

• 3 educators of Centro di solidarietà of Genoa

• 5 UEPE social workers

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES Alternative measures to prosecution, Ex-offenders.

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Project title Project title Project title Project title S.P.A.R.S.I. Sostegno a Percorsi di Autonomia in una Rete Sociale Integrata

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Lombardy (Varese)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Fondazione Carialo - Milan


Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Municipality of Varese

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs Mongiello Maria, educator - treatment area - District penitentiary /Prison of Varese,

+39.0332.283708


• Uepe of Varese

• Centro Psico sociale DSM Varese

• SERT

• Social co-operatives Consortium

• type A Social co-operatives

• Voluntary association



To promote actions in support of social integration of offenders, ex offenders or subject to alternative

measures to prosecution, through integrated strategies between the different local stakeholders


• To provide housing opportunities to people without support;

• to support work integration, by disseminating greater information on local resources.

Short description of the projecShort description of the projecShort description of the projecShort description of the projectttt

The Project has enabled a redefinition inside prisons of the release practices of people without support and

bonds within the community.

An agreement protocol has been signed.

Different work methods and approaches are implemented to address the problem by different partners:

public authorities, third sector and voluntary sector.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training



x



2.2 research



2.5 employers involvement


3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation x





• 1 social worker del Municipality of Varese

• 2 UEPE Social workers

• 1 SERT practitioner

• 1 practitioner from the Centre DSM Varese

• 2 educators from the Social co-operatives Consortium Varese

• 2 educators from the Type A Social co-operatives

• 2 voluntary workers from the Assoc. “Assist. Volontari carcerari San Vittore martire”

FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL BENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 23 offenders.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title O.P.E.N. - Offenders Pathways to Employment National Network

Local Area/s of actioLocal Area/s of actioLocal Area/s of actioLocal Area/s of actionnnn: : : : national territory

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget:::: € 305.892,94

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): : : : Community initiative Equal II Phase, Action 3

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from 8.11.2006 to 28.02.2008

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization: : : : Istituto Don Calabria Verona, lead partner of the Development Partnership

Ipotesi di Lavoro.

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person:::: Mrs. Maria Grazia Mastrangelo, tel. +39.045.8033698, [email protected]

Partner/sPartner/sPartner/sPartner/s: : : : 9 Equal C.I. partnerships joined the OPEN network: two from Abruzzo - IN.TRA, and SALIS – one

from Calabria – POTAMOS – two from Campania – OLTRE LA LINEA D’OMBRA and COS – one from Sardinia –

LABORIS – one from Veneto – R.J.USC.I.RE – and one from Emilia – PEGASO, in addition to the sectoral

partnership lead partner Ipotesi di Lavoro, with 57 Partners in total.



in the framework of Equal Action 3 devoted to mainstreaming, the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social

Policies in its capacity as Management Authority, invited the Projects operating in the criminal law sector to

act jointly. The need for employment policies integration through strategies in support of social inclusion

was the starting point of reference that gave rise to the whole Project.


OPEN has focused on the design of innovative approaches, methodologies and tools for the development of

negotiated programming of a welfare policy mix. The network aimed at creating a social and relational capital

value for each one of the 57 Partners, by launching the potential basis for a future co-operation in thematic

actions both a national and European level.


The network has developed new approaches and methods for the involvement of social partners, employers,

institutions, in view of a new social order that envisages the work and social reintegration of ex-offenders, by

integrating work, social, VET - vocational training and education policies. Partners have developed four

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operational miniguides on work integration of final beneficiaries, addressed to different public and private

stakeholders involved in the reintegration process. Furthermore, they have produced a leaflet illustrating the

practices adopted by the OPEN partnerships. The partnership has opened up two thematic fora on Minors and

adults (offenders and ex offenders) that have served as a potential link between existing public and private

networks and a first step towards the creation of a permanent national network. The adults forum has

addressed issues, like the development of ex-offenders’ basic and vocational skills; legislation on access to

rights with a special attention to the interpretation of the various law provisions. The Minors forum was

focused on the issue of skills transfer from DGM to DAP for young people aged between 19 and 22 years, as

well as on other issues, such as the Customized Educational Project and the right/duty to training,

improvement of measures and of Provisions in Criminal Justice with special reference to situations of

discrimination, for example related to young foreigners.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training

1.3 personal care services (eg. tutoring for minors in wardship, mentoring)

2.2.2.2. SYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEM----ORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONS


2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 500 practitioners of partner

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title BBBBuilding the C.S.S.A services Charter of the Region of Sicily

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Sicilia


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Funds Granted by ISSP

Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: fromfromfromfrom: 27.04.2004 – 20.06.2005

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization UEPE of Palermo

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Rosanna Provengano Social assistant, tel. +39.091.7799111


• Next of Palermo

• ATS of Milan


Identification of tIdentification of tIdentification of tIdentification of the problematic areahe problematic areahe problematic areahe problematic area

Istituzione Ufficio Uepe Prap Sicilia.


Building the C.S.S.A services Charter of the Uepe Office of the Region of Sicily. Promotion and innovation of

Services and effective Uepe public communication.

Short description ofShort description ofShort description ofShort description of the project the project the project the project

The Project offered the opportunity to share the different professional experiences related to the issues of

quality within services and the identification and dissemination of good practices. It aimed at providing the

public authority with a tool designed to bridge the information gap.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training





2.2 research


2.4 local network development



3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• 2 managers of PRAP

• 1 manager of Social Services

• 1 Director of Social Services

• 2 social workers (one from Prap and one from Uepe of Palermo).

• 4 Advisors and Trainers - NEXT of Palermo

• 1 advisor and trainer - Studio APS of Milan

FINAL BENEFICIARIES (total) FINAL BENEFICIARIES (total) FINAL BENEFICIARIES (total) FINAL BENEFICIARIES (total) 236 units (n. 7 UEPE units of Sicily)

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title IIIIdentification and intervention system of offenders’ psychological distress

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Piedmont (Turin)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget €

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Region of Liguria and Municipality of Genoa

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started on 01.01.2005

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization District Penitentiaries Lo Russo and Cutugno of Turin

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Ellamaro Anna – Educator. Tel. +39.011.4557585


ASL of Turin



Increase of psychological disorders among convicts.


To prevent self-injury and aggressive episodes by reducing risk factors and increasing the level of

attention towards manifestations of psychological distress.


Definition of criteria for he identification of individuals at risk; screening of episodes of distress among

offenders pointed out by Director; reporting by the Office in charge of the categories of offenders selected

to become the beneficiaries of actions.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training

1.3 personal care services (eg. tutoring for minors in wardship, mentoring x

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2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• 71 internal practitioners

• 25 ASL (Local Health District) practitioners

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES offenders.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title TESSERE

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna (Ferrara)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)

ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded in August 2007

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization District penitentiary of Ferrara

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Cacciolo Francesco - Director C.C. Ferrara tel +39.0532.250011,

Mrs. Garofani Luisa – Manager of SERT (service of Assistance to Drug Addicts) of Ferrara tel.

+39.0532.233713


SERT - service of Assistance to Drug Addicts - of Ferrara


Identification of the problIdentification of the problIdentification of the problIdentification of the problematic areaematic areaematic areaematic area

Offenders within the District penitentiary of Ferrara are provided with no opportunities to receive ongoing

psychological counselling and support, including specific interventions for the prevention of suicide risk

and of other life-threatening behaviours.


Prevention, diagnosis and psychological counselling addressed to inmates with special reference to suicide

risk prevention.


Administration of tests; setting up of a support group, of a first-time offenders’ group and of protected

group, individual interviews, regular meetings.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• 10 inmates of the Penitentiary of Ferrara

• 5 psychologists of SERT of Ferrara

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 300 offenders.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title SFIDE - Integrated System for Training of deteinees in Lazio

LocaLocaLocaLocal Area/s of actionl Area/s of actionl Area/s of actionl Area/s of action Lazio

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 2.500.000,00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF 2007-2013 Priority Priority Priority Priority B1-C1-C2 C3

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from:::: 16.11.2007-31.10.2008, extended to 31.03.2009

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization EN.A.I.P. LAZIO,Via Prospero Alpino, 20 00154 Rome

ContaContaContaContact Personct Personct Personct Person

� Partner/s of the ProjectPartner/s of the ProjectPartner/s of the ProjectPartner/s of the Project

� Acanto Societa’ cooperativa

� Associazione culturale La ribalta – Centro studi “enricomaria salerno”

� Associazione di promozione social vita attiva

� Consorzio comuni del cassinate / Cassino Municipalities Consortium

� Consorzio Lavoro & liberta’

� Cooperativa 29 giugno – Social Co-operative –onlus

� DLI srl

� Eyes srl

� IRI management

� SOLCO srl

� V.C.I.



The Project is called “S.F.I.D.E. Sistema di formazione integrato per i detenuti del Lazio” (Integrated training

System for offenders of Lazio), was submitted by the temporary partnership led by EnAIP Lazio, and is

included in the framework of work and employment coaching.

Five modules have been developed:

� 14 editions of 15-hour-long Information and guidance sessions for a total of 210 training hours;

� 5 editions of 120 hours of Italian L2 for a total of 600 training hours;

� 6 Technical Vocational training editions for a total of more than 1000 training hours;

� 80 hour-long IT - ECDL literacy - 14 editions for a total of 1120 training hours;

� 14 editions of 12-hour-long sessions on the implementation of Law Decree 626/94 for a total of 168

training hours;

� 14 editions of 60-hour-long sessions on Life-Theatre-Video for a total of 840 training hours.

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� adopt an overall approach towards vocational training for offenders: design, dissemination and testing of

an innovative model of intervention aimed at overcoming problems related to the implementation of

fragmented solutions and poor integration between services and stakeholders concerned; design and

development of methods, tools and organization system that are necessary to implement the training

system model;

� secure equal access opportunities to training and guidance services in particular to the weaker and more

poorly skilled people. The project intends to design and develop flexible and innovative training methods

(open distance learning, utilisation of tutor assisted, self-training equipped spaces, provision of

computer equipment and software, modularity of training pathways, skills certification), to make access

to training and guidance pathways to available to the largest number of users. The project also intends to

design and develop training models that are fit for the needs, in terms of contents and skills of target

users, with special reference to women and foreigners;

� design and implement a mix of innovative vocational training and work coaching actions: testing of

different customised training and work re/integration plans through the co-operation with a facilities

and services network;

� design a communication system that is intended to facilitate the exchange, discussion and dissemination

of training and organization models and to support the model governance and replicability: CMS and

Learning Objects adjustment to the structural characteristics of the intervention and to the identified

target, drafting of guidelines for the management, monitoring and la re-usability of the system and

materials.


The S.F.I.DE Project - “Sistema di formazione integrato per i detenuti del Lazio” (Integrated training System

for offenders of Lazio) - is a system-oriented intervention that has envisaged the design and testing of a

training model which is suited to meet the training needs of adults in a difficult situation and to support

the detention system in accomplishing the tasks of recovery and rehabilitation in relation to the detention experience.

In particular, the Project intends to meet the need identified by the Prison management and to design

specific vocational qualification actions, targeted at providing guidance and training to offenders in those

employment sectors where they are likely to find immediate job opportunities upon their release from

prison; furthermore it has designed alternative work integration pathways and approaches, upon the

conclusion of training actions, such as apprenticeships or pre-integration solutions.

A further highlight of the project - in spite of the constraints related to its implementation – is the

flexibility of the organization facility that allows the prison management to define the most suitable job-

oriented training pathways, thus fostering the work integration of offenders inside/outside prisons.

In particular, open distance learning activities have been delivered to 43 students/offenders, enrolled to

the University of Tor Vergata, of whom:

� 5 enrolled to the Faculty of Business and Economics;

� 20 enrolled to the Faculty of Law;

� 18 enrolled to the Faculty of Humanities.

E-learning classes: the classes held by professors in the three Faculties have been filmed directly in the

classroom according to the syllabus timetable and then delivered to offenders in an asynchronous mode in

equipped multimedia classrooms through a “dedicated” platform. Class recordings have varied substantially

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according to the institutes, the classrooms and equipment available and according to the number of hours

available for offenders themselves.

Class hours: 403 of which

� 148 hours for the Faculty of Business and Economics;

� 159 hours for the Faculty of Humanities;

� 96 hours for the Faculty of Law.

Guidance and tutoring: this service proved to be of fundamental importance in the cultural growth process

of students/offenders both for the subjects learned in depth and for the psychological and motivational

support.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x





2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total)


The Project has involved 1800 users, of whom 1.704 males, and 96 females.

The Project envisaged a few three-month-long apprenticeships for 67 offenders, both men and women. Job

placements took place both inside and outside the prison. Offenders held in semicustody were granted a

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“work scholarship” amounting to 450 € a month for each trainee. During this experience, trainees were

supported by tutor for a total of 20 hours a week.

The first job-oriented training course was organized in Rieti on 14/04/2008.

Overall duration of the Project: 15 months, eventually reduced to 12 months.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title E-learning based university inside the prison

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Lazio (Roma)



UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started onstarted onstarted onstarted on 15.03.2007

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization District penitentiary Rebibbia N.C.

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Giustiniani Luisa – Education Area Manager C.C. Rebibbia N.C. +39.06.43980355

[email protected]


• Garante Regione Lazio / Prisoners Guarantor Region of Lazio; Fastweb S.p.A; Tor Vergata University;

LazioIdisu



Difficulties to provide quality training and an adequate tutoring to student offenders at the various

educational levels.


Guarantee the right to education to offenders; create an e-learning service centre for the provision of open

distance learning to offenders inside the Prisons of the Lazio Region.


Open distance learning for a few university courses; tutoring and teaching; activities monitoring: purchase

and supply of textbooks; assessment of results.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training x





2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• 1 Penitentiary Police Corps practitioner

• 5 Coop. Soc. “L’Aurora” teachers

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 43 offenders

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Integrated experimental training and work intervention for offenders

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Marche


Funding sources ROP ESFFunding sources ROP ESFFunding sources ROP ESFFunding sources ROP ESF 2000-06 Ob.3, Priority B, Measure 1


Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Marche Region

Contact PersoContact PersoContact PersoContact Personnnn Mr. Enrico Ercolessi, tel. +39.071.8063668 –[email protected]


� Marche Region – funding authority: activity control by means of start-up, in progress and final

inspections;

� Employment Centres of Pesaro and Fano - Province of Pesaro and Urbino: best-practice transfer,

employment helpdesks ;

� Provveditorato Regionale Amministrazione Penitenziaria / Regional Jail Authority of Ancona: Project supervision and member of the scientific committee ;

� District penitentiary of Villa Fastiggi of Pesaro: best-practice transfer, employment helpdesks and

training for its inmates;

� District penitentiary of Ancona: training activities for its inmates; opening of an employment helpdesk;

� Prison of Fossombrone: best-practice transfer, employment helpdesk and training activities for its

inmates;

� Agency for Innovation in public administration and in local public services – project management

authority and ATI lead partner: training; best-practice transfer and exchange in different prisons; final

dissemination actions;

� COOSS MARCHE: training; best-practice transfer and exchange in different prisons;

� Associazione SMILE: training; best-practice transfer and exchange in different prisons; actions of

dissemination finale of the project;

� Employment Centre of Ascoli Piceno: Establishment of protocols of agreement with prisons for the

opening of helpsdesks;

� Employment Centre of Fermo: establishment of protocols of agreement with prisons for the opening of

helpsdesks;

� Employment Centre of Tolentino: establishment of protocols of agreement with prisons for the opening of helpsdesks.

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Disadvantaged people held in three prisons of the Marche Region and presence of female offenders in one

of the three Project case studies.


� work integration of offenders;

� building of a partners’ network (public and private authorities);

� opening of work guidance and information helpsdesks, inside prisons.


The project focused on:

� transfer and exchange of best-practices in different prisons;

� implementation of training actions aimed at promoting the work and social reintegration of offenders;

� organization of a final meeting, to disseminate and capitalize on the experience results.

Main results that have been achieved:

� issue of vocational qualification certificates to no. 7 offenders. One offenders was then hired by the form

where he carried out his job placement;

� establishment of protocols of agreement between prisons and the Provincial Employment Centres for the

opening of work guidance and information helpsdesks, inside prisons;

� building of a partners’ network (public and private authorities);

� protocols of agreement with the Jail Authority to carry out ongoing training and work integration actions

for offenders;

� organization of a final meeting, to disseminate and capitalize on the experience results and to promote

the replicability and transferability of the experimental training experience carried out in the framework

of the project ;

� development of an information leaflet on work guidance services for offenders;

� publication of the project description and conference proceedings.

Section III Section III Section III Section III –––– Project Act Project Act Project Act Project Activitiesivitiesivitiesivities


1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x



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3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACPRACPRACPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total)

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 36 offenders (24 men, 12 women), of whom 15 Alternative measures to prosecution

In the first part of the project a 100-hour-long face-to-face training (guidance) was envisaged inside the

three prisons of the Marche Regione, i.e. Pesaro, Fossombrone and Ancona, involving 36 beneficiaries (12

for each prison, 24 M –12 F). At the end of this phase, 15 beneficiaries (5 for each prison, 10 M – 5 F),

chosen among those who had attended the first 100-hour-long face-to-face training and who were allowed

to benefit from alternative measures to prosecution, were involved in a further 300-hour-long training, 80%

of which was carried out on the job, in the framework of job placements in local enterprises.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Worker specialising in metal section bar manufacturing

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Liguria (San Remo – Valle Armea )


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob. 3 2000-2006 Measure B1

ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded in 2004

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Province of Imperia

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Region of Liguria, Mrs. Laura Costa


IdenIdenIdenIdentification of the problematic areatification of the problematic areatification of the problematic areatification of the problematic area

During one of the meetings of the Provincial permanent Coordination board of Imperia for the work

integration of disadvantaged people, Gruppo Integra, the decision was made to design a course addressed

to users under restraining order to provide them with real work integration opportunities.

Trainees are people with multiple problems, detained in prison and taken care of by the Social Services, by

Drug Addiction Services or by Mental Health Services.


The Project intended to support disadvantaged users with fewer resources and with work and social

reintegration opportunities after they have finished serving their sentence. The course that has been

organized has been very successful from a psychological point of view, since this was a way for detainees

to break away from the prison routine and to play a new social and work role.

A further aim achieved by the project was networking with the other institutions involved.


The course was carried out in the laboratory inside the prison and was structured according to 4 modules

whose total duration was 163 hours:

� technical practical guidance: it was addressed to 15 people. 9 trainees were selected;

� skills analysis: to fully understand the trainees’ aptitudes and skills and raise their awareness;

� modular training designed for the acquisition of basic skills: work organization, safety and security;

� job-oriented training: for the acquisition of theoretical and practical skills for the carrying out of metal

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section metal section manufacturing and maintenance operations.

Already during the design stage, a co-operative firm had accepted to provide a job placement opportunity

to 6 trainees.


1. 1. 1. 1. ACTIONS DEVOTACTIONS DEVOTACTIONS DEVOTACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ED TO FINAL ED TO FINAL ED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIEST ACTIVITIEST ACTIVITIEST ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total)

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 10

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: Voci di dentro Percorso Avviamento al Lavoro per detenute /Voices from inside – a Work

guidance Pathway for female offenders

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Apulia Region (Bari)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Apulia Region “small subsidies”

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started onstarted onstarted onstarted on 6.12.2007

Implementing OrganizatioImplementing OrganizatioImplementing OrganizatioImplementing Organizationnnn PRAP of Bari

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Marsico Giovanni, Legal representative COOP. L’AURORA +39.080.775471


• Social Co-operative “L’Aurora”; Consorzio Meridia; Apulia Region


Identification of the problematIdentification of the problematIdentification of the problematIdentification of the problematic areaic areaic areaic area

A Prison with the presence of female offenders who have to serve a long sentence


Handicraft products addressed to the external market. Vocational training.


The project intends to create a space in which female offenders who have to serve a long sentence can in a

certain way keep a distance from their situation and learn new skills. A training course and workshops have

been organized.

An agreement has been signed between the Trani Prison management and a Social Co-operative.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training and job placements X





2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total): : : : 6 practitioners of whom:

• 1 Penitentiary Police Corps practitioner

• 5 Coop. Soc. “L’Aurora” teachers


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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Programme LEONARDO TOI 541 – RECYCLING CYCLE: RECOVERING AND REUSING skills and

resources that have been disposed of to develop sustainable communities

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Italy (Emilia-Romagna), Poland, Malta

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 399.120,00 of whom 298.840,00 public funding and 100.280,00 of private funding

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Leonardo da Vinci - LIFELONG Learning Programme -

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, durat, durat, durat, durationionionion: 01.10.2008 – 30.09.2010

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization C.E.F.A.L. - Bologna

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Giacomo Sarti – C.E.F.A.L. – Bologna, +39.051.489611, +39.051.489661 [email protected]


� CEC (Comité Européen de Coordination (Belgium)

� AID – Actions Intégrées de Développement asbl (Belgium)

� AID Tubize (Belgium)

� RAPPEL Scrl (social economy) (Belgium)

� Fundacja Barka (Poland)

� European Consulting LTD (Malta)

� A.L.C.G. Association de Lutte Contre le Gaspillage (France)

� IT2 Social Co-operative (Bologna – Italy)

� TECHNE Società Consortile per azioni (Forlì/Cesena – Italy)

� EnAIP Ferrara (Ferrara – Italy)

� Cooperativa L’Ulivo (Bologna – Italy)

� C.I.D.E.S. Centro Internazionale dell’Economia Sociale (Bologna – Italy)

� SIC Consorzio di Iniziative Social Cooperativa Social (Bologna – Italy)

� Social Co-operative La Valle del lavoro (Bologna – Italy)

� Consorzio ASAS scarl (Bologna – Italy)

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The New WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) EU Directives 2002/95/EC, 2002/96/CE EC

2003/108/ EC regulate WEEE disposal. The transposition of these EU Directives into the national legislation

and the need to adjust to them open up new market opportunities and new potentials for social inclusion

and management. In Emilia-Romagna, based on the Pegaso EQUAL Project and on the experiences made by

a few Belgian and French partners, it has been proven that it is possible to reconcile local needs with

innovative of social and work inclusion of disadvantaged people.

Project Project Project Project aimsaimsaimsaims

� membership to a European thematic network centred on social economy and the WEEE sector;

� design of a development plan for the setting up of a network of social stakeholders dealing with WEEE

collection, management, recovery and recycling in Emilia-Romagna;

� skills updating of Italian, Maltese and Polish partner organizations on how to manage a WEEE

multiservices network for training, work and social inclusion of disadvantaged people, promotion of the

added value that is created from the social, environmental and economic point of view.


The Project is designed to set up a stable, formal and structured multiservices network. Hence, the Project

intends to promote a significant impact on:

� final beneficiaries, namely disadvantaged people, in the broad sense of the term, in compliance with law

381/91, which is expected to enhance their training and employment opportunities both quantitatively

and qualitatively;

� intermediate Beneficiaries, i.e. training organizations, social enterprises, which should improve their

ability to act as a network and cooperate with the local authorities and enterprises in a synergic and

integrated way to meet disadvantaged people’s integration needs, by creating added value from the

social, environmental and economic point of view.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x



2. 2. 2. 2. SYSSYSSYSSYSTEMTEMTEMTEM----ORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONS


2.2 research


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3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x


4. 4. 4. 4. TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES x


PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 21, of whom:

CEFAL – Bologna

� 1 training project manager inside the prison of Bologna

CEC (Comité Européen de Coordination (Belgium):

� 2 Directors of the organisation

� 1 assessment expert

AID – Actions Intégrées de Développement asbl (Belgium)

� 1 training and coaching manager

AID Tubize (Belgium)

� 1 Director

RAPPEL Scrl (social economy) (Belgium)

� 1 production manager

Fundacja Barka (Poland)


European Consulting LTD (Malta)


A.L.C.G. Association de Lutte Contre le Gaspillage (France)


IT2 Social Co-operative (Bologna – Italy)


� 1 development and innovation manager

� 1 translation expert

TECHNE Società Consortile per azioni (Forlì/Cesena – Italy)


� 1 training and coaching practitioner

EnAIP Ferrara (Ferrara – Italy)


Cooperativa L’Ulivo (Bologna – Italy)

� 1 Director;

C.I.D.E.S. Centro Internazionale dell’Economia Social (Bologna – Italy)

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SIC Consorzio di Iniziative Social Cooperativa Social (Bologna – Italy)


Social Co-operative La Valle del Lavoro (Bologna – Italy)

� 1 president

Consorzio ASAS scarl (Bologna – Italy)


FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 15 offenders, of whom 10 Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence and 5 Alternative measures to prosecution.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Training and skills development of practitioners who interact with prison and post-prison

problems

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Autonomous Province of Bolzano


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF 2007-2013 Priority IV, specific Ob. 1, operational Ob. 2

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , durationdurationdurationduration:::: 19.12.2008 – 31.12.2010

ImplementiImplementiImplementiImplementing Organizationng Organizationng Organizationng Organization UPAD – Università Popolare delle Alpi Dolomitiche

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Rocco Maurizio Moretti, UPAD Università popolare delle alpi dolomitiche, Via Florence

51, 39100 Bolzano. www.upad.it Tel +39.0471.502849/921023, [email protected], [email protected]


� District penitentiary of Bolzano

� Surveillance Magistracy

� UEPE

� Caritas/Odar

� Labour bureau

� Social co-operatives

� Prison helpdesk

� Dozza Prison of Bologna

� Municipality of Bologna



The Project is addressed to different categories of disadvantaged people (disabled, former prostitutes,

women victims of abuse and violence, former drug addicts, former alcohol abusers, ex-offenders, gipsies,

new poor people), sharing common employment difficulties, often accompanied by social exclusion.


Self-employment has been considered to be a possible employment solution for disadvantaged people as

well a san opportunity to enhance one’s social image. The Project intended to pursue these aims by means

of:

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� awareness-raising of institutions, services, Third sector and market organizations;

� motivational support and technical coaching to design business projects of would-be disadvantaged

entrepreneurs.


The main activities implemented by the project are:

� design of an intervention model based on interviews to disadvantaged entrepreneurs;

� meetings and workshops for institutions, services, Third sector and market organizations practitioners

on issues related to business creation and the help relationships with the disadvantaged people;

� identification and vocation guidance of 243 disadvantaged people;

� entrepreneurial coaching of advisors and mentors (disadvantaged entrepreneurs) per 79 would-be

disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Six enterprises have been set up.


1. 1. 1. 1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BBBBENEFICIARIESENEFICIARIESENEFICIARIESENEFICIARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance

1.2 training



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESESESES (total)(total)(total)(total) 41

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 16 Ex-offenders (13 men and 3 women).

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title “TOOLS IN NETWORK (T.I.N.): an e-net approach to share mediation competences)”

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Italy (Rome - Latina), Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Leonardo da Vinci - LIFELONG Learning Programme

Concluded, Duration: from: Concluded, Duration: from: Concluded, Duration: from: Concluded, Duration: from: 15.11.2007 – 14.05.2008 (extended to 14.9.2009 by amendment)

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Ministry of Justice – Juvenile Justice Department

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Isabella Mastropasqua – Juvenile Justice Department, Tel: +39.06.68188239

[email protected]


� Istituto Psicoanalitico per la Ricerca Social IPRS IPRS (Italy); Christian Youth Villane Foundation CJD Eutin

(Germany); Istituto per la Risoluzione di Conflitti (Bulgaria); Fondazione O’Belen (Spain); Riga City Mission

(Latvia)


Identification of the pIdentification of the pIdentification of the pIdentification of the problematic arearoblematic arearoblematic arearoblematic area

The Project focused on the issue of penal mediation (both in theoretical and methodological terms) in

partner countries, through an action-research based on the e-learning study of an on-line platform. The

mediation material that was already available on the platform was monitored and compared with the

different situations of various Countries. The T.I.N. Project experience was specifically addressed to

practitioners and experts and allowed to share documents and information, intervention strategies and

operational tools on the issue of mediation, with a view to analyse, compare and define common pathways

and policies in the area of restorative justice.


The main aim was the implementation of an on-line platform on the issue of penal mediation, through the

analysis and sharing of contents and techniques that were already present on it, within the more general

framework of deviance and Juvenile Justice in partner countries. A further important objective was to

support skills development of practitioners and other professionals working in the area of juvenile penal

mediation, by testing the on-line platform and services.

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After the first phase of information and data collection research on the justice context and on penal

mediation è practices, the experimental phase was started up in each partner Country, and carried out

through the on-line platform tool with educational units and management by a tutor. Furthermore a

website, a brochure and a DVD on the main activities and programmes related to mediation were also

produced. A workshop on the transnational experiences that had been carried during the Project was also

held.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training x

1.3 personal care services (penal mediationpenal mediationpenal mediationpenal mediation) x



2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x





55 European practitioners belonging to the sector of Justice (social workers, educators) as well as mediators, experts, students, trainees were directly involved in the project experimentation. In Italy the project was tested in Latina, in co-operation with the Social Services Office of Rome (Latina branch) and with the Mediation and Conciliation Office of Latina, whose components are a perfect expression of the welfare-mix, namely Juvenile Justice, local authorities, third sector (Caritas) and professionals (Lawyers) practitioners.

Several Juvenile Justice practitioners asked for an extension of the experience to other territories.

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Many Juvenile offenders from the Rome and Latina area (see statistics in www.giustiziaminorile.it) as well as many crime victims can benefit from the Project and from the activities of mediation.

Professors, students, representatives from local authorities and mediators took part in the final Seminar and benefited from the reports and materials that were provided.

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES

Indirect Beneficiaries of mediation activities were Juvenile offenders (taken care of by Justice) and crime

victims of the territories involved in the Project.

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DESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTION FORFORFORFORMMMM


Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: Supervision – Training Pathway for the function of Professional Supervision of Social Services

of n. 12 Social Workers of Tuscany.

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany


Funding source/s (ESF,Funding source/s (ESF,Funding source/s (ESF,Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) local funds, other) local funds, other) local funds, other) Tuscany Region and University of Florence.


Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization PRAP ( Regional Jail Authority) Tuscany and Uepe (Criminal Justice Social Work

Service)

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Rollino Susanna, Tel. +39.055.4607629


• Tuscany Region; University of Florence; Professional Social Workers Association of Tuscany



Need for professional supervision expressed by the local Uepe Social Workers.


The Project is intended to implement the provisions under art. 118 – DPR (Decree of the President of the

Italian Republic) 230 to carry out staff Professional Supervision activities through the setting up of a group

of Social Workers specialising in this function.


Specialisation Training course; training, tutoring and coaching model building. setting up of a group of

Social Workers specialising as Junior Supervisors. Building of a specific Supervision model.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training x

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1.3 personal care services (eg. tutoring for minors in wardship, mentoring for

work integration, …)



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• 12 social workers from UEPE

• 12 social workers from the main Municipalities of Provinces of Tuscany

• 40 Social Workers from UEPE in Tuscany

• Supervision Groups


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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title ANCORA Project

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Piedmont (Province of Biella)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € € € € 23110,00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) call for proposals for the granting of subsidies in support of

projects and initiatives in the area of deviance and crime control

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started in June 2009

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Province of Biella :Project network LOG (Local Operating Group) and Soc.Coop.

Soc. Oltreilgiardino

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Fulvia Zago, Province of Biella, social policies area +39.015.8480773

Sudano Ilaria, Via La Marmora n.76 +39.015.81159 President Soc.Coop.Soc. Oltre il giardino

OrganizationOrganizationOrganizationOrganization partner partner partner partner The LOG acts by coordinating the networked resources, knowledge, officials, human

resources and tools, necessary for the operation of the Group itself in pursuance of the Project aims.

The following partners have joined the LOG in the framework of the Project:

• Coop. Mosaico

• CFPP Casa di carità Onlus

• Asl 12 - SERT (Local Health District and Drug Addiction services) and Prevention Dpt

• District penitentiary

• CSA-CTP

• Municipality of Biella

• social coop. Orso Blu

• Centro Servizi Volontariato della Provincia di Biella

• Ass. Ricominciare

• Coop La Betulla

• Consorzio Socio Assistenziale IRIS

• Municipality of Cossato,

• Ass Enrichetta Alfieri • Don Luigi dell’Aravecchia ONLUS

• Municipality of Valle Mosso

• UEPE of Biella and Vercelli

• Comunità Montana Valsesia and Valsessera

• Employment Centre of the Province of Biella

• Social Co-operative Aurora

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• Social Co-operative La Coccinella).

• Voluntary association La rete: co-operation takes place through the availability of premises managed by

the association to take care 1 or 2 people within the framework of the Project and the support provided

by voluntary workers;

• Voluntary sector: co-operation takes place through the participation in the network and through the

availability of its own resources (material and moral support)

• Consorzio Sociale Orizzonti: co-operation takes place through the participation in the network and

through the availability of its own resources and skills, in particular through the networked co-

operatives.



Immediately after the release from prison ex-offenders have asked for help to meet their basic livelihood

needs, such as:

• immediate night shelter;

• stable housing;

• meal vouchers;

• urgent economic support actions;

• work integration;

• help with the payment of overdue utility bills;

• economic support to facilitate autonomous apartment rental contracts;

The Project is intended to meet the above-mentioned needs, by providing early residential sheltering (the

Biella Centre is equipped to offer emergency sheltering) and by helping people released from prison to be

socially re-integrated through concrete opportunities that are likely to prevent their relapse into crime. The

Project is intended to provide them with overall support to help them overcome the early difficult period.


The following coaching actions are envisaged for offenders and ex-offenders, to:

• facilitate their social reintegration;

• prevent their relapse into crime with direct benefits for the entire community;

• help ex-offenders become autonomous and no longer dependent on social assistance;

• strengthen the network and actions in favour of these disadvantaged people.

Short description of the projeShort description of the projeShort description of the projeShort description of the projectctctct

The Project is designed to take care of ex-offenders, to meet their basic needs, help them become

autonomous and be socially re-integrated.

Objective1) To take care of ex-offenders on a customised basis:

Actions:

• evaluation of referrals (by services in charge: Uepe, District penitentiary, Social Services, Municipalities);

• first interview to identifying emergent needs;

• working out a customised Project to meet the user’s needs, in a flexible, immediate and effective way;

• involving the network of support in liaison with the Provincial authorities and LOG members;

• proposal to user (contract or agreement);

• start up of the Project to take care of ex-offenders on a customised basis;

Objective2) To provide tools allowing autonomous housing and social integration solutions

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Actions:

• provision of a housing solution with the support of the reference network; in case of drug addicts, a

customised Project will be designed in agreement with SERT (Drug Addiction Service) in the framework of

a therapy Programme

• provision of vouchers to cater for basic needs, including the possibility of a work scholarship or

integration into a training pathway;

Objective3) coaching ex-offenders and helping them becoming fully-fledged citizens

Actions:

• assessment of prerequisites to exercise citizenship rights (e.g. possession of personal documents)

• coaching them in handling with bureaucratic procedures.

Aims 4 and 5) to support and strengthen reference networks, including family members and other local

stakeholders.

Actions:

• building the relational network also through the social voluntary sector

• involvement of resources to support and building of a relational network

general objectives:

• multidisciplinary team work to assess and monitor the implementation of the customised Project;

• assessment of the implementation of the customised Project;

• entitlement to privacy with reference to personal data.

Vouchers are provided to help ex-offenders to become autonomous and to pay for the following expenses:

rental of an apartment, utility bills, food; early needs, such as emergency accommodation, clothing and meal

vouchers, transport (public transport tickets, or petrol for one’s own means of transport), leisure time

management: courses, handbooks.


1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES

1.1 guidance X

1.2 training



X



2.2 research X





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3.1 monitoring X

3.2 evaluation X




PRACTITIONPRACTITIONPRACTITIONPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES 1 LOG tutor and operational network

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES 5 Ex-offenders

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Net-met, Network for the integration of disadvantaged people in the metropolitan area of

Tuscany

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany (Provinces of Florence, Prato, Pistoia, Circondario Empolese-Valdelsa)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 1.879.903,00 (related to Migrant, disabled people, drug addicts and offenders/ex-

offenders)

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Community initiative Equal I phase

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from: : : : 07.2002 – 05.2005

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Association Net-met, 57 members. Coordinated by the Provincial Authority of

Pistoia

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Bert d’Arragon, Provincial Authority of Pistoia, Piazza San Leone 1, 51100 Pistoia

OrganizationOrganizationOrganizationOrganization partner partner partner partner



The Net-met EQUAL Project is addressed to people who wish to become integrated into the labour market

and society without being discriminated and to private and public institutions and associations engaged in

these issues.

The Project intended to build a network for the development and testing of models and services aimed at the

improvement of work integration of socially disadvantaged people in the metropolitan area of central

Tuscany.

User Groups:

• social Services users, of different ages, who are not taken care of by any specialised services. Users

generally are socially disadvantaged people

• unemployed people having lost their job, due to dismissals or changes in the labour market, aged

generally over 50), who are not taken care of by any specialised

• people belonging to different ethnical groups (non-EU citizens, gipsies, etc.)

• ex drug addicts and alcohol abusers

• ex-offenders, offenders held in semicustody or in Alternative measures to prosecution

• people suffering from mental disorders taken care of by the Mental Health Service

• disabled people

• young drop outs

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The project was intended to create a network linking all stakeholders engaged in work integration services

for disadvantaged people:

• provincial authorities (Employment Centres, Training, Education, Social Policy Dpt)

• municipalities (Social Services)

• employers and Social partners (Job placement and contract opportunities)

• third sector Organizations (support to users groups, tutoring)

• ASL (Local Health District) (Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services)

The project was mainly intended to ensure the full social and work integration of disadvantaged people

living in difficult conditions and wishing to improve their living and work conditions.


Networking activities involving the different stakeholders of the filed have been carried out in the area

under question. A few innovative work and social integration initiatives have been undertaken, including

integrated training programmes, work coaching, employment subsidies and social support to

disadvantaged people



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x





2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x





FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (Total) 937

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Information helpdesks of the District penitentiary of Bologna

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna (Bologna)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 140.000 (annual cost), related to the setting up of the “Info work” helpdesk managed by

CEFAL

The cost related to the setting up of the Information helpdesk managed by Municipality of Bologna has not

been reported

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, othFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, othFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, othFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)er)er)er) ESF (OB. 3 B1) funds have been provided for the setting up of

the “Info work” helpdesk co-funded by the Provincial Authority of Bologna. Regional and municipal funds

have been provided for the setting up of the Information helpdesk managed by Municipality of Bologna.

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway:::: the Municipality Information helpdesk was set up in Dec. 1997; the “Info work” helpdesk was set

up in 2002. both of them are still in operation.

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization CEFAL, Municipality of Bologna

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Stefano Cuppini, Cefal, Tel +39.051.489611, [email protected]


With reference to the “Info work” helpdesk a Project Forum has been set up to monitor and follow up the

development of activities. It is made up of: the District penitentiary of Bologna (Director, educators’

manager), UEPE (Director, coordinator), Municipality of Bologna, Provincial authority of Bologna

(councillorship for Social Policies) and a representative from the Third sector.

SectSectSectSection II ion II ion II ion II –––– Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project


the problematic areas that have been identified are:

� large number of offenders present inside the prison;

� large number of non-EU offenders present inside the prison;

� offenders and Ex-offenders with poor level of schooling and poor vocational skills;

� offenders and Ex-offenders with poor level of knowledge of the employment and Social Services system;

� poor level of opportunities, for offenders, to access information, related to labour market opportunities;

� poor social reintegration opportunities related also to poor work opportunities;

� difficulties in under standing the prison dynamics.

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Helpdesks are mainly set up to provide information to offenders and ex-offenders.

On the one hand, the Project is designed to increase knowledge of offenders and Ex-offenders concerning

the labour market to enhance their employment potential (employability) by providing information,

guidance advice and support to transition to work, by means of an approach centred on the person and

networking. On the other hand, the Project intends to use cultural mediation to support foreign offenders’

sharing of cultural approaches, understanding of their inmate and social conditions, of cultural models,

attitudes and behaviours that are likely to facilitate relationships between practitioners and foreign

offenders. Furthermore, social workers are regarded as key players in serving as liaison between the prison

and the community, by creating links with the competent services.

Furthermore, the Project is designed to enhance offenders’ knowledge of the social context and services

that are available upon the release from prison if they decide to stay in the same municipality.

Short description of the projecShort description of the projecShort description of the projecShort description of the projectttt

In summary, the “Info work” helpdesk is designed to supply the following services:

� information on concrete training and/or work resources;

� guidance advice, setting up of customised projects to help transition to work;

� support to work integration and/or training (coaching, tutoring);

� mentoring in the autonomous search of a job (external Info work Helpdesk);

� production of information material.

the “Info work” helpdesk is designed to supply the following services:

� guidance and information to foreign offenders concerning the Legal Protection rights and entitlement to

alternative measures to prosecution;

� activities aimed to promote the dissemination of information on life inside the prison;

� social secretariat activities;

� care of people about to be released from prison;

� contacts and relationships with offenders’ families;

� contacts with institutions (UEPE, consulates …).



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training



x



2.2 research

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3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation





� “Info work” helpdesk (CEFAL) practitioners; three practitioners are hired, two of them inside the prison

and one at the Employment Centre;

� Work Psychologist, community clinic Psychologist, pedagogue. Activities: information, advice, guidance,

coaching, promotion.

� Socio-cultural mediator (Municipality of Bologna): 2 mediators operate in Bologna, one Arab-French

mother tongue and one Albanian-English speaking mediator. Activities: interpreting and translation

services, decoding of behaviours, habits, attitudes, assessment of possible resources upon their release

from prison through the networking with Third sector and Institutional services, legal, work and

administrative guidance and information services, Social workers’ support during a few interviews with

non-EU offenders to better understand their needs in order to meet them; rebuilding relationships with

their families and representatives from their Countries of origin;

� Work Psychologist (CEFAL), targeted actions within the internal “Info work” helpdesk. Activities:

motivational interviews aimed at the identification of personal profiles, in terms of social, cognitive,

motivational skills, etc.


On average, 230 people access the “Info work” Helpdesk Service every year (170 at the internal desk, 60 at

the CIP desk).

On average, 700 interviews a year are carried out by the Information helpdesk managed by Municipality of

Bologna.

As for the total number of final beneficiaries of the ESF National Board, 80% of them are men and 20%

women.

With reference to the “Info work” helpdesk, Italian users percentage is slightly higher than foreigners

percentage, whereas 90% of interviews carried out by the Municipality Information helpdesk concern foreign

offenders.

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SeSeSeSection I ction I ction I ction I –––– Project Project Project Project DateDateDateDate


IdentificaIdentificaIdentificaIdentification of the problematic area tion of the problematic area tion of the problematic area tion of the problematic area

Difficulties encountered by offenders: lack of stable work opportunities, social marginalisation and exclusion,

poor/inadequate vocational skills; failure to meet professional/economic expectations/needs, lack of job

seeking knowledge/experience, difficulties for local network systems to cater for offenders’ specific needs,

lack of communication and awareness-raising by the criminal justice system and local networks.

Project aims Project aims Project aims Project aims

Governance of criminal justice system, Labour market, public and private Social Services networks; work and

social integration of ex-offenders into the local community; access opportunities to services, involvement in

one’s own life project, exit from the deviance context. Active co-operation between the jail, judiciary,

business and economic systems. Qualitative and quantitative improvement of offenders’ work and social

integration opportunities.


MACROPHASE 1 advice to strategic planning of institutional governance of local committees engaged in work

with adult offenders;

Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Pegaso – plural networking processes for the inclusion of offenders – IT-G2-EMI 020

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Ferrara


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, oFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, oFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, oFunding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)ther)ther)ther)

Community initiative Equal –––– Phase 2 - Priority II

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded XXXX

Concluded, dConcluded, dConcluded, dConcluded, duration: uration: uration: uration: from14.07.2005 to 14.01.2008

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Techne S.C.p.A. – certified training organization

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Barbara Bovelacci Techne +39.0543.410711-760, [email protected] ;

Mr. Giacomo Sarti Cefal +39.051.489611 [email protected]

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MACROPHASE 2 general and specific Initiatives in each one of the 3 areas involved in the project: customised

coaching and work integration actions, through work labs and job placements in enterprises;

MACROPHASE 3 development of an Agency engaged in the communication and setting up of local

laboratories inside prisons, media communication and awareness-raising of citizens; drafting the Project

social report.


1. 1. 1. 1. AAAACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL CTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL CTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL CTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESBENEFICIARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance X

1.2 training X



X



2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring X

3.2 evaluation X


4. 4. 4. 4. TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES X


PRACTITIONPRACTITIONPRACTITIONPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES

TUTORS PSYCHOLOGISTS/EDUCATORS – TECHNE 4

TUTORS PSYCHOLOGISTS/EDUCATORS – CEFAL 3

TUTORS PSYCHOLOGISTS/EDUCATORS/TEACHERS – ENAIP 8

COUNSELORS – MUNICIPALITY OF BOLOGNA – 2

PROJECT COORDINATORS TECHNE 3

PROJECT COORDINATORS CEFAL 2

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PROJECT COORDINATORS ENAIP 2


Total number of final beneficiaries involved in the funded

project

91919191

Total number of final beneficiaries of the ESF National Board

of whom: M 85 F 6

Italians foreigners Italians foreigners

(Minors) age 14-21

(Young Adults) Age 18-25 1

(Adults) Age > 25 61 23 6


Ex-offenders 3

Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence 59

Mothers with children 1

Section V Section V Section V Section V –––– Thematic ar Thematic ar Thematic ar Thematic areaseaseaseas



E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders




Evaluation

Minors


Mentoring


Art in prisons

Work inside/outside prisons X



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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title: : : : S.A.L.I.S. Servizi per l’Autonomia, il Lavoro e l’Inclusione Sociale (Services oriented to

independent Living, work and social inclusion

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Region of Abruzzo

Total budTotal budTotal budTotal budgetgetgetget € 550.528

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) C.I. Equal II Phase

ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded X

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Province of Pescara

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Province of Pescara, + 39.085 724238 [email protected],

Partner/sPartner/sPartner/sPartner/s::::

� CNA - Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della piccola e media Impresa (National Confederation

of craft and small and medium-sized firms)

� Confesercenti Regionale dell’Abruzzo

� Sinergia Advertising S.r.l.

� Provveditorato Regionale dell’Amministrazione Penitenziaria Abruzzo (Regional Jail Authority)

� ENFAP Abruzzo - Ente Nazionale per la Formazione e l’Addestramento Professionale (National organisation

for vocational education and training)

OrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizations of thof thof thof theeee networknetworknetworknetwork

� Ufficio per l’esecuzione penale esterna of Pescara (Criminal Justice Social Work Service)

� SILUS – Labour Policies Sector - of the Province of Pescara

� Casa circondariale San Donato (District Penitentiary ) of Pescara

� Ser.T.- Dipartimento di salute mentale /Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services

� Dipartimento di Alcoologia of Pescara / Alcohol Abuse Dpt.

� Social Services Dpt. of the Municipality of Pescara and Francavilla al Mare

� Caritas Diocesana of Pescara- Unione dei giovani industriali of Pescara /Union of young entrepreneurs

� Confederazione Italiana Agricoltori / Italian Farmers’ Confederation

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The Project has been designed to address the obstacles hindering access to the labour market by ex-

offenders and offenders under Criminal Justice Social Work schemes.


The project aims at developing an innovative work reintegration pathway of Beneficiaries through a set of

integrated actions designed to increase the Beneficiaries’ employability, by enhancing their independent

living, personal and vocational skills, by providing them with forms of support to work independently and

through the acquisition of general and specific skills.

Short description of theShort description of theShort description of theShort description of the project project project project

A specialist coaching model has been tested to increase the employability of beneficiaries and to meet their

needs in terms of social inclusion and finding temporary accommodation solutions.

Synergic and integrated actions between different local Services and employers’ Associations have been put

in place to implement the model.

The work and social integration model envisages the following steps:

� information about the Project activities

� evaluation/recruitment

� possible access to transition housing scheme

� support in the supply of employability services

� referral to other community services to meet other beneficiaries’ needs

� awareness-raising, promotion and involvement of local firms

� definition of enterprises’ needs

� matching beneficiaries and enterprises’ needs

� on the job training

� work scholarship - work experience coaching

� providing beneficiaries with stable solutions.

After the initial recruitment phase, beneficiaries received guidance and a short training aimed at their

integration in a specific firm. Users received on the job training. The job placement lasted 6 months on

average. Users received a work scholarship to cater for their basic livelihood needs and reimbursement of

expenses. Furthermore they were provided with free-of-charge transition housing solutions throughout the

Project.

The whole integration/re-integration phase was supported by a specific ad hoc multidisciplinary team. It provided support

to both beneficiaries and employers involved the Project. Finally, beneficiaries were coached towards stable employee work

and self-employment pathways. Users could access technical advice services provided by the Centro Integrato Servizi (C.I.S.)

on self-employment and business creation initiatives. As for employee work, the firms interested in hiring users have

received technical advice services by C.I.S., in particular with reference to tax allowances and incentives envisaged by

the law.

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1.1 guidance X

1.2 training X



X



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





35 practitioners (Ser.T., Ufficio Esecuzione Penale Esterna, Social Services Dpt., SILUS, Caritas, Casa

circondariale San Donato of Pescara)


Total number of final beneficiaries involved in the funded

project

72

Total number of final beneficiaries of the ESF National Board 72

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italians foreigner


(Minors) age 14-21 X X



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(Young Adults) Age 18-25 X X

(Adults) Age > 25 X X


Ex-offenders 50






E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders X Practitioners and trainers’ training Preparation to release/Re-integration/transition management X Employers involvement X Evaluation

Minors


Mentoring


Art in prisons


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DESCRIPTION FORMDESCRIPTION FORMDESCRIPTION FORMDESCRIPTION FORM

Section I Section I Section I Section I –––– Project Date Project Date Project Date Project Date

Section II Section II Section II Section II –––– Description of the Description of the Description of the Description of the projectprojectprojectproject

Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Work in social inclusion of offenders benefiting from pardon

Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action

The whole national area is involved (12 regions and 46 provinces: Naples, Bologna, Naples, Bologna, Naples, Bologna, Naples, Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Rimini,

Forlì, TriesteTriesteTriesteTrieste, Gorizia, Udine, Pordenone, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Viterbo, Frosinone, Latina, Genoa, Genoa, Genoa, Genoa, La Spezia, Imperia,

Savona, Milan, Turin, Milan, Turin, Milan, Turin, Milan, Turin, Cuneo, Asti, Alessandria, Bari, Bari, Bari, Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Taranto, Cagliari, Cagliari, Cagliari, Cagliari, Carbonia-Iglesia, Medio

Campidano, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Caltanisetta, Agrigento, Trapani, Florence, Florence, Florence, Florence, Prato, Pistoia, Massa

Carrara, Venice, Venice, Venice, Venice, Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Verona, Vicenza).

The project originally envisaged the involvement only of offenders benefiting from pardon resident in the

14 metropolitan areas (listed in bold type). During the project this restriction has been lifted, to extend this

opportunity to the project beneficiaries

Total budget Total budget Total budget Total budget € € € € 11.506.469,00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ESF NOPother): ESF NOPother): ESF NOPother): ESF NOP “Governance and system-oriented actions” and NOPNOPNOPNOP “

system-oriented actions”, Employability Priority specific Objective 2.1.

Underway ,Underway ,Underway ,Underway , ddddurationurationurationuration: From 10 Oct. 2006 To 31 Dec. 2009

Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Implementing Organization Italia Lavoro Spa

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mario Conclave, Mrs. Giovanna Gorini, Italia Lavoro Spa, tel. +39.011.8395730;

+39.06.80244555; mob. +39.392.1553886; [email protected] ; [email protected]


Identification of the problematic area Identification of the problematic area Identification of the problematic area Identification of the problematic area

The project is promoted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and by the Ministry of Justice. It was

intended to support employability, to provide coaching for the re-integration into the labour market and

the prevention from relapse into crime of ex offenders beneficiaries of law on the granting of pardon (l.

241/2006). Subsequently, in the light of difficulties in identifying these subjects within the framework of

the project activities, ex offenders non entitled to pardon - who are about to finish serving their sentence

or subject to alternative measures to prosecution.

Project aims Project aims Project aims Project aims

The project aimed to contribute to the employability of 2.000 beneficiaries under Law 241/06 (on pardon)

through apprenticeships;

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Project Activities Project Activities Project Activities Project Activities

1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIARIESES

1.1 guidance X

1.2 training X


for work integration, …) X

2. SYSTEM2. SYSTEM2. SYSTEM2. SYSTEM----ORIENTORIENTORIENTORIENTED ACTIONS ED ACTIONS ED ACTIONS ED ACTIONS


2.2 research -





3.1 monitoring X

3.2 evaluation X


4. TR4. TR4. TR4. TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

� to foster the qualification of public and private services for social and work inclusion of ex-offenders;

� to promote local labour policies through combined labour active policies and income supporting

policies.

Short description of the project Short description of the project Short description of the project Short description of the project

The project has implemented the following activities:

� preparatory actions: identification of beneficiaries, networking with provincial and municipal

authorities, social services, social cooperatives consortia, local helpdesks, tools for practitioners

(operating manuals for tutors and for project practitioners);

� re-integration actions: agreements with firms and cooperatives; 2158 job placements (1037 firms

involved), of which 325 labour contracts with granting of training incentives to employers;

� coordination, management, promotion and assessment actions: development of communication tools;

(presentation kit for enterprises and beneficiaries, leaflets, web site, newsletters), local dissemination

workshops, and a final meeting.

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Section IV Section IV Section IV Section IV –––– Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Beneficiaries

PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES 176 tutors coming from the local network

FINAL BENEFICIARIESESFINAL BENEFICIARIESESFINAL BENEFICIARIESESFINAL BENEFICIARIESES4444 2158 (1966 men, 192 women)

Total number of final Beneficiaries involved in the funded

project

Total number of final Beneficiaries of the ESF National Board

Of whom: M M M M 1966 F F F F 192

Italians foreigners Italians foreigners

(Minors) Age 14-20** 100 3

(Young adults) Age 20-24** 106 3

(Adults) Age > 25 1760 186


Ex-offenders /

Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence /

Mothers with children /

* there is a total number of 161 foreigners. The breakdown by age and gender between Italians and foreigners has not been reported.

** Age classes have been modified based on data aggregation (aggregation generally used in the MDL).

4 The distinction between total number of final beneficiaries involved in the funded project and ESF panel beneficiaries is necessary since a few

projects do not envisage exclusively people under prosecution as beneficiaries.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title: : : : JONATHAN

Local AreLocal AreLocal AreLocal Area/s of actiona/s of actiona/s of actiona/s of action: : : : Tuscany Region

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget: : : : € 930.972,96

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Community initiative Equal II phase


Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization: : : : Municipality of Florence

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Simona Boboli – Manager P.O. adult education - Municipality of Florence tel.

+39.055.2625708 [email protected]


� Municipalities of Prato and Pistoia

� EUROBIC TUSCANYSUD

� Consorzio PEGASO Network

� LIBERA

� COSENO scrl

� Coordinamento Nazionale Comunità per Minori

� Ente Camposampiero

� Associazione Agricoltura Biodinamica – Biodynamic Farming Association - Tuscany



Young people at social risk are caught between the so-called “sheltered categories” and the free labour

market. These young people are not affected by problems that require their inclusion in privileged work

integration schemes, but live in difficult situations, which might be characterized by the lack or support of

their families, or even worse, by dysfunctional families that do not provide them with any material or

immaterial support to start their working lives.


A few innovative tools and specific actions have been developed to promote work integration, i.e. flexible

educational services aimed at meeting users' specific needs according to their local socio-economic

context and based on the integration of specific technical and educational skills. Innovation consists in the

design of a flexible service that can be adjusted to local needs.

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The Project envisages 4 Macrophases: the 1st one has tested a few local integration pathways within the

Municipalities involved. A key element is the set of local actions designed to support work integration to

promote the integration between education and work. The 2nd phase consisted in the testing of integrated

vocational training pathways for young offenders to provide them with the opportunity to learn new

vocational and soft skills to enter the labour market. The 3rd step allowed a large number of practitioners

of the field to acquire specific skills to provide support and coaching to young people and minors in

entering the labour market. The project allowed to strengthen psychological, social and work integration

skills.

The local networks “Reti Locali Leggere di Inserimento (Re.L.L.I.)” were implemented to try out the model

throughout the regional territory. The networks are based on the integration of knowledge, information

and skills. The general Macrophase 4 was especially important and innovative. It introduced the citizenship

education and equal opportunities module and it focused on the various aspects and links between

citizenship and work, and between individual rights and collective responsibility. All these activities were

carried out in the framework of a transnational partnership with Belgium and Portugal.



1.1 guidance X

1.2 training X



X



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 244

FINAL BENEFICIFINAL BENEFICIFINAL BENEFICIFINAL BENEFICIARIESARIESARIESARIES 31 Juvenile offenders. The Project concerned a total of 458 Minors.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title ANCORA

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany (Province of Pistoia)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 28.823,00 amount related to categories wider than the target group

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob 3 2000/2006 (Priority B, Mis. B1)


Implementing OImplementing OImplementing OImplementing Organizationrganizationrganizationrganization In Cammino Social Co-operative

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person

Mr. Sauro Gori, In Cammino, +39.0573.451361; +39.335.5297003 [email protected],



IdentifiIdentifiIdentifiIdentification of the problematic areacation of the problematic areacation of the problematic areacation of the problematic area

The Social Co-operative has been operating in the area of work integration of disadvantaged people for

several years. It points out that long-term marginalisation makes stable work and social integration

increasingly more difficult. In particular, the period immediately following adolescence is especially important

to give a positive turn to one’s life.


The Project is intended to make stable work and social integration possible. It is a farsighted objective that

often takes a long time to develop. That is why an important role can be played by a laboratory that offers

young people the opportunity to try things out and to find the right path again.


The Project is specifically addressed to 16/20-yeas-old young offenders, taken care of by the Juvenile Court

of Florence.

The project is organized in three steps:

1. identification of users and motivational evaluation interviews;

2. laboratory activities;

3. job placements.

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Section III Section III Section III Section III –––– Project ActivitiesProject ActivitiesProject ActivitiesProject Activities


1.1 guidance

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x



SectionSectionSectionSection IV IV IV IV –––– BeneficiBeneficiBeneficiBeneficiariesariesariesaries

PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 4 of whom: � 1 Coordinator (In Cammino)

� 1 Administrative counsellor (In Cammino)

� 1 Tutor (In Cammino)

� 1 (external) teacher

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 6 offenders....

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title IT: a tool for recovery and guidance of young offenders

Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Sicily (IPM Bicocca, “Cavour” Junior High School)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 11785,71

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) NOP ESF 2007-2013 .

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from: : : : 18.09.2008 –––– 22.12.2008





The Project beneficiaries are the IPM Minors of Bicocca. These young people are marked by devastating

experiences, are little inclined to be integrated in school, since they still keep very negative and frustrating

memories of their school experiences, and are indifferent and demotivated. The challenge to be pursued by

the prison school is to give sense to their lives through useful education and training.

In-prison training is first step towards the design of a new life. It is intended to facilitate young offenders’

social and work integration. The training experience provides an opportunity to learn to cope up with

reality in a different way and to be educated to “legal behaviour”, to achieve goals in full compliance with

the law. New acquired vocational skills will allow beneficiaries to enter the labour market more easily. The

further specialisation will allow them to obtain training credits and to be eventually reintegrated into the

school system.

IT tools are today essential for the implementation of project, for the creation of a business activity or micro-

enterprise. IT opens the doors to the market, to modern services and offers the opportunity to establish new

relationships in a global network. This requires the acquisition of additional skills, which several talented

craftsmen and retailers lack in Southern Italy.

Training services provided by NOP are aimed at the cultural and functional literacy, the cultural promotion,

the integration between right to education and right to guidance, to vocational training for adults and for the

population at large, in the lifelong learning framework. Education services are the way out from cultural

marginalisation, to complete one’s schooling and to obtain higher degrees.

In this context the training project is designed to provide beneficiaries with the opportunity to learn IT skills,

which are now absolutely necessary to access any type of job, including micro-entrepreneurial projects, thus

becoming a bridge with the external world.

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• to improve the levels of knowledge and skills of young offenders;

• to promote the development of key skills: digital skills, learning how to learn;

• provide the necessary skills to exercise full active citizenship rights;

• scouting new talents and skills.

Short description of theShort description of theShort description of theShort description of the project project project project

The project is organized according to six modules concerning:

� basic ICT and Personal Computer use concepts;

� Personal Computer operational system;

� Acquisition of word-processing skills (Microsoft Word);

� Databases and other PC basic tools;

� Computer picture management;

� IT networks.



1.1 guidance x 1.2 training x 1.3 personal care services (eg. tutoring for minors in wardship, mentoring for


x

2. 2. 2. 2. SYSSYSSYSSYSTEMTEMTEMTEM----ORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONS


2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 2 experts

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 15 Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title: : : : Ipotesi of work

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action:::: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia,

Molise, Marche, Sicilia, Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget:::: € 1.582.500



Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization: : : : Istituto “Don Calabria”, Verona

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Alessandro Padovani, Istituto “Don Calabria, tel. +39.045.87033698

[email protected],


� Juvenile Justice Department

� Ministry of Justice

� Coordinamento Nazionale Comunità di Accoglienza

� Consorzio Nazionale della Cooperazione di Solidarietà Sociale ‘Gino Mattarelli’

� Fondazione Enaip Lombardia

� SFERA Servizi Formativi Emiliano Romagnoli Associati

� Comune di Milano - Assessorato Educazione ed Infanzia /Municipality of Milan - Councillorship on

Education and Childhood

OrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizations of theof theof theof the networknetworknetworknetwork

� Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia: Regional, Provincial, Municipal authorities, ASL Local health

authorities, Third sector organisations and trade Associations

� Trentino Alto Adige: Provincial, Municipal authorities, ASL, Local health authorities, Third sector

organisations

� Lombardy and Liguria: Regional, Provincial, Municipal authorities, ASL Local health authorities, Third

sector organisations and trade Associations

� Lazio and Abruzzo-Molise-Marche: Regional, Provincial, Municipal authorities, ASL Local health

authorities, no. 30 Third sector organisations and trade Associations

� Calabria-Basilicata: Regional, Provincial, Municipal authorities, ASL Local health authorities, Third sector

organisations and trade Associations, Foundations.

� Sicily: Regional and School management , Provincial, Municipal authorities, enterprises, Training

organisations, employment Agency, Third sector organisations

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The Project is addressed to young offenders aged between 14 and 25 years of age, who are deprived of

their freedom due to their imprisonment and constrained to live in extreme exclusion due to their difficult

social and family backgrounds that are at the very basis of their deviance and problems with justice.

Further factors of discrimination are related to their low schooling level, belonging to marginalised groups

and illegal backgrounds.


The DP, including the main national organizations and the Juvenile Justice Department, intended to address

the above-mentioned problems by promoting work and social agreements and by testing new integrated

social and work inclusion models, to implement an Educational Project that will eventually allow

beneficiaries to recover their full legal status.

The project is designed to promote the integration of 130 young offenders by implementing different

practices, centred on the enhancement of employability, as a way out of deviance and delinquency.


The Project focused on central and local contexts and systems by strengthening the links between the

judiciary, social and work policies and by opening up new employment spaces for the integration of young

offenders.

Three main types of activities have been carried out:

� information and dissemination: the network and all the stakeholders involved have been informed and

made aware about the Project through: meetings, by the Project partners themselves, at a central and

local level, with the direct involvement of political, technical/operational stakeholders; the creation of

extended partnerships in the Regions concerned to better identify the beneficiaries’ needs; and

dissemination events with the involvement of all the stakeholders who have participated and

cooperated in the actions and with institutional and non institutional partners active in the work and

social inclusion of minors and young people;

� training Measures: development of integrated of education/training modules and pathways provided

inside the prison; guidance, advice and coaching for offenders to help them being reintegrated into the

school or work systems through apprenticeships and customised training pathways. These measures

enable beneficiaries to acquire a set of certifiable skills inside the prison, according to national and/or

regional standards. The acquisition of basic skills as well as technical and vocational skills will be

certified upon the completion and final examination after a three-year experimental cycle;

� activities are carried out in liaison with the organizations involved in the Project network: social

dialogue, awareness-raising on the Project issues, concerning the employability and the social and

work inclusion of minors and young people. Capitalising on the principle of CSR Corporate Social

Responsibility, the Project has been funded by a few organisations to continue its commitment in the

area of work and social integration to the benefit of Final beneficiaries also upon the conclusion of the

Project, thus enhancing the cooperation between institutions, young people and enterprises and

between personal care services networks and the labour market.

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1.1 guidance X

1.2 training X



X



2.2 research X





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





1000 (practitioners from ASL Local health authorities, Provincial, Municipal authorities, trade Associations,

co-operatives, Juvenile Justice Centres and Juvenile Justice Department).



funded project

260


Board

260

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italian foreigner

s Italian foreigners

(Minors) age 14-21 X X

(Young Adults) Age 18-25



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(Adults) Age > 25

Alternative measures to prosecution X

Ex-offenders






E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders X Practitioners and trainers’ training X Preparation to release/Re-integration/transition management X


Evaluation

Minors X


Mentoring


Art in prisons

Work inside/outside prisons X

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: COSTELLAZIONI: actions in favour of the education and training system in prison

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna (Provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini, Ravenna, Ferrara,

Reggio Emilia, Parma and Piacenza)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob. 3 2000-2006 Priority B

Concluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: fromConcluded, Duration: from 27.09.2006 to 31.12. 2007

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Fondazione EnAIP S. Zavatta Rimini leading of an ATI

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Giovanna Scaparrotti

Fondazione EnAIP S. Zavatta Rimini viale Valturio 4 RN tel. 0541/367113



In spite of the several legislative provisions and guidelines in furtherance of social and work inclusion of

female offenders, the resources and practices that are put in place are not always consistent and effective.

It has sometimes proved to be difficult to capitalize on the efforts made by individual managers and

practitioners in the various territories due to poor dissemination of information, lack of actions in support

to local networks that would allow practitioners not only to learn form good practices but also to develop

new general skills that are suited to act in the intersection between the different systems.


The Project has tried to achieve the integration between the various systems (Provveditorato regionale

Amministrazione penitenziaria /Regional Jail Authority, Direzione scolastica regionale / Regional School

Authority, and Vocational training) at a regional and Provincial level, by focusing on the moot points that

might hinder joint design efforts. The ultimate goal was to strengthen the network between the prison and

work/social reintegration services of offenders inside/outside prisons. The Project has been designed to

develop tools and spaces to share different languages, to analyse the different roles and functions, pooling

together missions, constraints and tasks of the different organizations.

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The following coaching actions have been carried out:

1. A Skills Portfolio was built to serve as a tool to record the different offenders’ formal and non formal,

education/training experiences, inside the prison ( BO and FC); local networks strengthening and

enlargement Laboratories to make the G.O.T. experience efficient ( PR, PC, FE, RA,);

2. Diversity Laboratory, within the VEGA section for transgender and homosexual inmates of the Rimini

prison, by involving practitioners and offenders to strengthen skills starting from the offenders’ direct

experiences;

3. data collection and dissemination by means of a report and a cod on the experiences made within the

regional territory;

4. monitoring and evaluation



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training



2. 2. 2. 2. SYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEMSYSTEM----ORIORIORIORIENTED ACTIONSENTED ACTIONSENTED ACTIONSENTED ACTIONS


2.2 research





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x


4. 4. 4. 4. TRTRTRTRANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIESANSNATIONAL ACTIVITIES


PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 131 131 131 131

� 23 School Managers and Prison Directors

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� 17 Educators

� 15 Agenti of Penitentiary Police Corps

� 3 Uepe PRACTITIONERS

� 40 school Teachers

� 7 Practitioners FP

� 4 Practitioners Ente locale

� 9 Practitioners third sector

� 5 cultural Mediators

� 3 Asl/ Sert

� 3 Sanità IP (healthcare workers)

� 2 Voluntary workers

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 9 foreign offenders from the special section for transgender and homosexual

inmates of the Rimini prison

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title DONNA OLTRE LE SBARRE / Women behind the bars

Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Local Area/s of action Lombardia ( female Prison sections of:

Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Mantova, Milan Opera, Milan S. Vittore, Monza, Vigevano)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 690.886,00 (1st ed. 405476 + 2nd ed. 156210 + 3rd ed. 129200 )

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob. 3 2000-2006

ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded::::

� 1st ed.12/11/2003 – 31/10/2004

� 2nd ed. 10/11/2005 – 29/12/2006 (AZIONE of SYSTEM)

� 3rd ed. 30/01/2007-15/10/2007


� 1st edition - GALDUS Società Cooperativa in Associazione Temporanea d’Impresa con CONSORZIO NOVA

SPES ONLUS Società consortile social arl (2003) - Project n. 141117 -

� 2nd edition - CONSORZIO NOVA SPES ONLUS Società consortile social arl in Associazione Temporanea

d’Impresa con GALDUS Società Cooperativa – Anteeo & Partners s.r.l. (2004/2005) - id. Project 295443 -

� 3rd edition - Società Cooperativa in Associazione Temporanea d’Impresa con CONSORZIO NOVA SPES

ONLUS Società consortile social arl – (2006) - id. Project 390078 –

ContacContacContacContact Persont Persont Persont Person Diego Montrone - Legale Rappresentante GALDUS SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA -

[email protected]



The Lombardy prisons host less than 8% of the total prison population. Few women in prison are involved

in training and work activities. Job opportunities, and even more so the stay in a working environment, are

the best guarantee to head towards a stable and promising future and the building of one’s own identity.

This aim can be realistically pursued in a “blended” pathway, including employment supported by coaching

and tutoring interventions, the involvement of the public services, training system and third sector. The

Project has focused on this almost unknown area of female work in prison, which takes place in a complex

human environment according to specific relational codes and rhythms, different from those applying to

the “external world” and completely different from the prevailing male universe, which characterizes most

prison environments.

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The project was intended to provide a few groups of female offenders with the opportunity to acquire and

strengthen their basic and general skills to enhance their degree of awareness and motivation towards

work. As a matter of fact, work is usually intended by both male and female offenders as functional

(thinking out of the box, status symbol, economic remuneration), rather than being considered to be

significant as such, in terms of building one’s self-esteem, mobilizing internal and external resources,

triggering off the learning and growth process, which provide ongoing sources of satisfaction and

motivation. The Project focused on the enhancement of work as a source of motivation and recovery of

normal life, which is regarded as a characteristic of a socially acceptable condition even after the release

from prison.


The project has built, tested and assessed a new model of intervention aimed at enhancing and

maintaining work activities to be carried out by female offenders, according to an integrated approach

agreed upon by the various stakeholders belonging to the different systems, in view of the continuation of

their work activity even after the release from prison. In particular, the project was intended to enhance

and disseminate gender policies, equal opportunities and multicultural approach in such a complex and

problematic environment. A few knowledge activities were carried out (a preliminary research was carried

out in the 8 penitentiaries with female sections in Lombardy) and few experimental work models were

designed, promoted and implemented for both male and female offenders. The contract might envisage 4

working days and 1 continuous training day to be promoted and tested in 4 already existing laboratories

inside the prisons in Lombardy.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x



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FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 128 offenders women, of whom 43 foreigners

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: R.J.USC.I.RE- Riqualificarsi on the Job per riUSCire in un Inserimento /On-the-job training

towards a successful work integration

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action:::: Veneto Region

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget:::: € 744.015,18



Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization:::: Higher Education Institute “Ruzza Pendola”

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person:::: Higher Education Institute “Ruzza Pendola”, Padova, +39.049.657287

[email protected],


Municipality of Venice; Cooperativa “Il Cerchio” a r.l.; Fondazione Teatro “La Fenice”; Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Onlus; Associazione EDIMAR

SecSecSecSection II tion II tion II tion II –––– Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project


The DP (Development Partnership) decided to address and solve the work integration difficulties, both as

employees and self-employed workers, that female offenders encounter when they are released form the

Prison of Giudecca in Venice. The project also concerned the companies, which are often reluctant in hiring

ex-offenders, both due to the prejudices and mistrust attitudes, and to the costs and bureaucratic

procedures.

ProjectProjectProjectProject aims aims aims aims

The Project is intended to create the suitable conditions to facilitate work integration of female Beneficiaries

by involving, on the one hand, the local firms and, on the other hand, by promoting the development of

basic, soft, technical and vocational skills related to the fashion sector, with special reference to art

costumes.

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Information and awareness-raising actions were undertaken to overcome prejudices related to the hiring of

ex-offenders and to ease bureaucratic procedures, in favour of local textile enterprises and trading

companies, temporary work agencies and employment Centres.

The Project’s main aim was the organization of training activities in prison that were specifically intended to

transfer specific skills with rich growth potentials – art costumes –. 35 Italian and foreign women were

involved in the Project, whose main aim was motivation and self-esteem rebuilding. Some of them managed

to certify their skills through qualification examinations and the issue of diplomas. This was possible thanks

to new web-based ODL technologies, by using Internet for ECDL drills and CAD software for the design of

theatre costumes. The “Practice firm” method was used in the training laboratory, to enable women to

operate in prison as though they had been in an enterprise.

Furthermore, the Project invested in the training of 19 practitioners, including teachers, educators and

agents of the Penitentiary Police Corps as well as social workers from the Ministry of Justice. It focused its

attention on the fundamental skills necessary for teaching activities inside a prison. In particular, a

Vademecum on coaching activities was designed. This methodology is based on a partnership between

coach and client and is intended to help the latter to attain specific personal and vocational goals.

The coach acted as a facilitator in the job-oriented training experience and helped the beneficiaries involved

in highlighting the main difficulties as well as the main aims to be achieved and the way to approach them.

In particular, the project focused on the rebuilding of women’s social and professional identity, by

promoting their self-analysis and development skills.


1. 1. 1. 1. ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL ACTIONS DEVOTED TO FINAL BENEFICIBENEFICIBENEFICIBENEFICIARIESARIESARIESARIESESESESES

1.1 guidance

1.2 training X





2.2 research X





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation


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19 (school teachers and trainers, UEPE educators, Penitentiary Police Corps agents and social workers from

the Ministry of Justice)



funded project

35


Board

35

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italians foreigner


(Minors) age 14-21

(Young Adults) Age 18-25 X X (Adults) Age > 25 X X

Alternative measures to prosecution X

Ex-offenders




Networking of Institutions


E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders x

Practitioners and trainers’ training x

Preparation to release/Re-integration/transition management


Evaluation

Minors

Specific groups (e.g. women, drug addicts, sex-offenders) x

Mentoring


Art in prisons

Work inside/outside prisons x



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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title FUORILUOGO

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany (Circondario /Penitentiary Empolese Valdelsa - Ospedale Psichiatrico

Giudiziario (OPG) Montelupo / Judiciary Psychiatric Hospital)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESFROP ESFROP ESFROP ESF Ob 3 2000/2006 (Priority B, Measure B1)


Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Cooperativa SINTESI

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person: Mirko Regini – Stella Latini, Cooperativa Sintesi, +39.0571.924317/27 [email protected],




The Project started from the lack of liaison between the Judiciary Psychiatric Hospital (OPG) of Montelupo

and its community.


Facilitate the integration and reintegration of the project beneficiaries into the labour market by alternating

class-based sessions and on the job training activities.

ShorShorShorShort description of the projectt description of the projectt description of the projectt description of the project

A few courses were organized to transfer vocational skills to offenders who were about to finish serving

their sentence and were ready to be reintegrated into the labour market or with opportunities to carry out a

few work tasks within the Judiciary Psychiatric Hospital.

In particular a few recycling, gardening and cooking courses.

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training X



X



2.2 research




3333. OTHER. OTHER. OTHER. OTHER

3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 20 offenders (19 Italians, 1 foreign)

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title C.O.S – Concrete Opportunities and Services for offenders and ex-offenders

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Campania



ConcludedConcludedConcludedConcluded

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization ENOF – Ente Nazionale orientamento e Formazione (National guidance and

Training board)

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person ENOF - Ente Nazionale orientamento e Formazione Via A. Riboty, 23

00187 Rome (RM) Tel. +39.06.39745688 Fax +39.06.39889701 [email protected] www.enof.it


� Associazione La Mansarda

� COPIM - Consorzio per l’Occupazione e la Promozione

� Imprenditoriale

� In Service



The problematic area that has been dealt with by the project is the difficulties of integration into the labour

market encountered by offenders and ex-offenders. In Italy, the rate of relapse into crime of those who do

not manage to find a stable job, once they are released from prison, accounts for 85%.


The project aimed at improving the quality of life of offenders and ex-offenders and of their social and work

conditions, as well as raising a new awareness and a new way of coping up with the issue of the relationship

between prison, labour market and reintegration into society.


The DP promoted actions which, on the one hand, provided offenders and ex-offenders with adequate

vocational skills to become integrated into the labour market and, on the other hand, raised the awareness of

enterprises who are reluctant to offer a job to an ex-offender. The project was carried out in the Campania

prisons, characterized by a high rate of unskilled young people. The Project focused its actions on this target

group to enhance the recovery role that can be played by prisons and to promote the recourse to alternative

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measures to prosecution, especially those linked to training-work pathways.

The Project envisaged both individual and collective guidance, training, work coaching actions, to enable

users to acquire all the necessary cognitive and operational skills as well as the basic, soft and specialist

skills to enter the labour market. At the same time, it promoted a thorough promotion and awareness-raising

campaign addressed to small and medium-sized enterprises, to point out the main tax advantages envisaged

by the law for the enterprises that are willing to hire offenders and ex-offenders.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation






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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title SOLARIS – Servizi Orientamento Lavoro Autonomo e Svantaggio (Guidance, Self-Employment,

Disadvantaged people Services)

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Friuli Venice Giulia

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 600.565,88600.565,88600.565,88600.565,88

The total budget refers to all the Project activities and was addressed to a broad category of people:

including both the services practitioners (intermediate Beneficiaries) and the physically, socially and

economically Disadvantaged people (direct Beneficiaries such as: the disabled, former drug addicts, Ex-

offenders, gipsies, people coming out from prostitution circuits, women victims of abuse and violence, new

poor people).


ConConConConcluded, Duration: fromcluded, Duration: fromcluded, Duration: fromcluded, Duration: from:::: 28.11.2005 – 27.06.2008

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization IRES FVG – Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali del Friuli Venezia Giulia

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Paolo Molinari (Project Leader), IRES FVG, via Manzini 41 – 33100 Udine,

+39.0432.415463 [email protected],


� A.S.S. n.4 - Azienda per i Servizi Sanitari “Medio Friuli”, Dipartimento delle Dipendenze (Health Services

Authority - Drug Addiction Department)

� C.O.S.M. - Consorzio Operativo Salute Mentale (Operational Mental Health Consortium)

� Comunità Piergiorgio ONLUS

� Associazione IDEA onlus

� Centro Caritas dell’Arcidiocesi di Udine Onlus

� FINRECO - Finanziaria Regionale della Cooperazione

� Cooperativa CRAMARS scarl

� Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Economia, Società e Territorio (University of Udine,

Department of Economics, Society and Territory)

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The Project is addressed to different categories of Disadvantaged people (disabled people, people coming

out from prostitution circuits, women victims of abuse and violence, former drug addicts, former alcohol

abusers, Ex-offenders, gipsies, new poor people), all sharing similar work integration difficulties, often

accompanied by social exclusion problems.


Self-Employment has been regarded as a solution to employment integration problems for Disadvantaged

people and an opportunity for them to build a positive social image. The Project’s aim was to make this

opportunity possible through:

� awareness-raising of services, institutions, Third sector organisation and employers;

� motivational support and coaching to design business projects for disadvantaged would-be

entrepreneurs.


The following main activities were carried out:

� design of a model of intervention based on interviews to disadvantaged entrepreneurs;

� meetings and workshops for Third sector, services and business community practitioners on issues

related to business creation and help relationships with disadvantaged people;

� identification and job guidance of 243 disadvantaged people;

� entrepreneurial coaching of advisors and mentors (disadvantaged entrepreneurs) for 79 would-be

entrepreneurs. Six enterprises have been set up.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training



x

2. 2. 2. 2. SYSYSYSYSTEMSTEMSTEMSTEM----ORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONSORIENTED ACTIONS


2.2 research



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3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 41, of whom:

IRES IRES IRES IRES ---- Friuli Friuli Friuli Friuli VeniceVeniceVeniceVenice Giulia Giulia Giulia Giulia

� 4 researchers and entrepreneurial advisors tutors

� 2 psychologists, researchers and social helpdesk practitioners

� 1 marketing advisor researcher

A.S.S. n. 4 A.S.S. n. 4 A.S.S. n. 4 A.S.S. n. 4 ---- Dipartimento delle Dipendenze Dipartimento delle Dipendenze Dipartimento delle Dipendenze Dipartimento delle Dipendenze (Drug Addiction Dpt) (Drug Addiction Dpt) (Drug Addiction Dpt) (Drug Addiction Dpt)

� 1counseullor, social helpdesk practitioner and mentor supervisor

1 Psychologist and social helpdesk practitioner

CARITAS DIOCESANACARITAS DIOCESANACARITAS DIOCESANACARITAS DIOCESANA of of of of UdineUdineUdineUdine

� 2 social helpdesk practitioners

CommunityCommunityCommunityCommunity PIERGIORGIO ONLUS PIERGIORGIO ONLUS PIERGIORGIO ONLUS PIERGIORGIO ONLUS


C.O.S.M.C.O.S.M.C.O.S.M.C.O.S.M.


CRAMARSCRAMARSCRAMARSCRAMARS


Associazione IDEA OnlusAssociazione IDEA OnlusAssociazione IDEA OnlusAssociazione IDEA Onlus


FINRECOFINRECOFINRECOFINRECO

� 1 financial advisor

External partnersExternal partnersExternal partnersExternal partners

� 2 entrepreneurial advisors tutors

� 8 chartered accountants and advisors of specific sectors

� 9 entrepreneurs engaged as mentors

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 16 (13 men and 3 women) including Ex-offenders and people who benefit from

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alternative measures to prosecution.




Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title: : : : LABORIS – LABoratorio per l’Orientamento e l’Inserimento Sociale (Guidance and social

integration Laboratory)

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action

Metropolitan Area of Cagliari



C.I. Equal II Phase

Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: Concluded, Duration: from 2004 to 2007


S.O.S. SERVIZI ALLA OCCUPAZIONE E ALLO SVILUPPO S.R.L


Mr. Fabrizio Floris, SOS Srl Servizi all’Occupazione e allo Sviluppo, +39.070.673042 [email protected] ,


� Associazione di volontariato Cooperazione e Confronto Onlus (Voluntary Co-operation association)

� Cooperativa Sociale Comunità la Collina Onlus (Social Co-operative)

� Associazione Piccole e Medie Industrie della Sardegna (Small and Medium-Sized Industries of

Sardinia)

� Istituto di Formazione dell’API sarda (Training Institute of the SMEs’ Association of Sardinia)

� Consorzio Sardo fra cooperative di produzione ( Production co-operatives Consortium of Sardinia)



Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence did not have any point of reference except for the

Ministry practitioners who had coached them along their pathway. At the same time the local enterprises

were not adequately aware of the issues related to the integration people released from prison. In addition to

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that, the lack of coaches or mentors made it difficult for enterprises to be involved and engaged in the work

integration and hiring process of ex-offenders.


The Project aimed at providing a guidance service inside prisons and counselling guidance service outside

prisons, in order to enhance offenders’ skills, and support their motivation to work.

At the same time, two tutors coaching offenders’ in their inclusion pathways were envisaged by the Project.


In terms of system-oriented actions, a network was set up with the involvement of both public and private,

profit and not-for-profit practitioners. The general mission of the network was guiding all activities towards

the satisfaction of final beneficiaries’ real needs. The network was designed to help disseminate the

knowledge and identification of beneficiaries, it suggested more effective strategies for their involvement,

the issue of different authorizations, the availability of spaces inside the prisons and their offices for the

organization of guidance and training activities.

Two tutors were appointed to facilitate the beneficiaries’ work integration: the corporate tutor and the

psychosocial tutor. The former was the technical point of reference for the Beneficiary placed within the

enterprise. He played guidance and facilitating role in the beneficiary’s integration and learning of life skills.

The latter acted as personal point of reference for the Beneficiary to help him cope up with the most critical

moments in the integration process.

Training activities provided inside the prison were aimed at starting up an entrepreneurial initiative within the

District penitentiary of Cagliari. Contents concerned the use of software for the monitoring of means of

transport. Both theoretical and practical training was provided in a face-to-face situation.



1.1 guidance X

1.2 training



X



2.2 research




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3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation



transnational Partnership with projects from the United Kingdom, Belgium

and Portugal

joint modelling Activities related to guidance and training methodologies –

also through peer mentoring training. Identified protocols of transition

from prison to civil society based on the involvement of all the

occupational profiles and organizations.



Approximately 1050 practitioners from the Ministry of Justice, University, enterprises and third sector took

part in the awareness-raising and promotion as well as in the activities leading to the work integration of

Final beneficiaries.



funded project

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Board

100

of whom: M 95 M 95 M 95 M 95 F 5F 5F 5F 5

Italians foreigner


(Minors) age 14-21

(Young Adults) Age 18-25

(Adults) Age > 25

Alternative measures to prosecution

Ex-offenders







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Diagnosis, Profiling, assessment

E-learning

Training activities addressed to offenders




Evaluation

Minors


Mentoring X


Art in prisons


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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title ARIA3…al cubo

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Basilicata

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 1.500.000,00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Cassa delle Ammende dell’Amministrazione Penitenziaria, P.O.

Basilicata ESF, 2007-2013

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , duration: 24 months, tot. 700 hours

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Dipartimento dell’Amministrazione Penitenziaria, Provveditorato Regionale

della Basilicata, Potenza

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mr. Giuseppe Palo (PRAP representative), [email protected]


� GCI Etabeta S.P.A., Roma

� Altafilm, Milan

� RCE Multimedia, Napoli



The project focuses on the problem of family difficulties in the prison context. First of all, it intends to

provide offenders and their children the tools and competences that are necessary to cope up with the

problem of accessing the labour market; secondly, it intends to promote business initiatives within the

prison.


� to help offenders address the work integration issue, by providing them with a real job opportunity and

vocational qualifications within the “cinema-television set” and “studios” professions (carpenters,

electricians, light engineers, etc.);

� to involve the offenders’ children in training and work integration pathways; to offer offenders and the

companies of Basilicata the opportunity to promote business initiatives within the prison;

� to attract national and international productions to provide the regional community and the local

audiovisual sector with incentives.

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The project intends to organize “studios” within the prison and to make them available to Southern Italian

cinema-television operators and crews and to hire workers and technicians trained within the framework of

the project. A few examples of the activities that have been carried out are: setting up of the Regional

Agency for the cinema & television industry “ARIA” 3 (www.aria3.eu) promoted by the partners, the

Department of Training Work Culture and Sport of the Basilicata Region and by the PRAP of Basilicata;

involvement of the District Penitentiary of Potenza in the “XV edition of the 2009Medfilm Festival” in Rome,

with the production of a short film on the issue of cultural integration whose title is “Three and a Half

Minutes” (directed by Luca Curto and with Neri Marcoré as leading actor); organization of the photographic

exhibition-catalogue “LocKation” on the subjects related to criminal prosecution in Basilicata.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 25 (offenders and offenders’ children).

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title “LEGAMI – learning partnership on maintaining bonds between offenders and their children”

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Italy (Rome - Latina), Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia

ToToToTotal budgettal budgettal budgettal budget € 20.000,00

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) LIFELONG Learning Programme - Grundtvig

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , durationdurationdurationduration:::: August 2008 - July 2010

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Bambinisenzasbarre

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Lia Sacerdote, president of “Bambinisenzasbarre” via Castel Morrone, 17 –

20129 Milan tel. +39.02.711988 - fax +39.02.8738 8862 - [email protected]


� Istituto Psicoanalitico per la Ricerca Sociale IPRS (Italy)

� European Network for Children of Imprisoned Parents (Eurochips) - 6 rue Charles Floquet - 92122

Montrouge, Île de France – France

� Action for prisoners' families - Unit 21 Carlson Court 116 Putney Bridge Road - SW15 2NQ London –

United Kingdom

� ASBL: Relais Enfants Parents - Rue de Bordeaux, 62 A, 1060 Bruxelles - Belgium



The International Agreement of Children’s Rights of the United Nations, of 1989, sets out that every child is

entitled to maintain bonds with his /her parents, whether separated from one or both of them. The Draft

European Charter on the Rights of the Child del 1992, article 9,15, è sets out that every child is entitled to

maintain bonds with his /her detained parents. The Association known as Bambini Senza Sbarre (Children

without bars) and its partners have been engaged for several years on the divide between law and reality and

on maintaining relationships between children and their detained parents, in the awareness that it operates

in social prevention terms. Every year, in the European Union 800,000 children are separated from their

detained parents. Bambini Senza Sbarre is engaged in the sharing of best practices and continuous training

of prison practitioners (educators, social workers and agents of the Penitentiary Police Corps) in contact with

offenders and their children visiting them in prison.


� to improve the quality and accessibility of mobility, throughout Europe, of individuals involved in adults

education;

� to improve the quality and to increase the scope of co-operation between the organizations involved in

adults education throughout Europe;

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� to support people belonging to vulnerable social groups and social contexts

� marginalised people;

� to foster the development of innovative practices in the adults education sector and the transfer of these

practices to the partner Countries.


Ongoing/accomplished activities:

� analysis and comparison of awareness-raising and best practices training of Penitentiary Police Corps

staff;

� setting up of training helpdesks for families affected by detention problems on gender-specific forms of

counselling and group work inside prisons;

� creation of a so-called “Yellow Space” in the S.Vittore prison meant for offenders’ children waiting to

meet their parents;

� training seminar held in the prison of Bollate, Milan on 6-7-8 November 2008;

� European press conference/debate on ‘Invisible children, when children/ parents’ relationships involve

the prison’. Milan, prison of San Vittore, 8 May 2009.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training

1.3 personal care services (penal mediationpenal mediationpenal mediationpenal mediation) x



2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 7

� 4 trainers

� 1 Psychologist

� 2 organization and communication practitioners

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 200 approx.

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title District penitentiary Laboratory of Ferrara

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna (Ferrara)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget about € 50.000,00 a year

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Ferrara, Centro Servizi

per il volontariato di Ferrara (Voluntary Sector Services Centre) of Ferrara, Fondazione Cassa of Risparmio

of Ferrara

DurationDurationDurationDuration: : : : the Laboratory was started in 2005. It is open throughout the year except for summer and winter

breaks.

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Teatro Nucleo

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Horacio Czertok, Teatro Nucleo, +39.348.2303834 [email protected],


� Municipality of Ferrara

� Centro Servizi per il volontariato of Ferrara



The Project invests on creativeness, in particular on theatre. It requires the general commitment to

stimulate solidarity, self-confidence, knowledge and control of one’s feelings, respect towards oneself and

others, recovery of one’s personal dignity through continuous commitment and work.


The project pursues both pedagogical and productive aims, in order “to train” offenders to become fully-

fledged actors and to write their own plays to be performed within the prison itself to the benefit of other

offenders and non- offenders coming from outside, and in other external theatres within the city or

elsewhere.

In particular, the following aims are pursued:

� recovery of one’s personal dignity –endogenous result within the laboratory;

� getting rid of the stigma – in the encounter with the audience inside and outside the prison;

� stimulating the intercultural dialogue, collective and solidarity activities, feelings, improvement of

communication skills, acquisition of vocational skills.

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The Project, was started in 2005. It was meant to carry out activities on a continuous basis with the aim to

create a theatre company inside the prison.

In 2007 the first performance called “Schegge da Totò a Beckett” was shown at the Municipal Theatre of

Ferrara.

This experience became then an integral part of the INSIDE OUT Project in the framework of the Grundtvig

EU programme, led by the Teatro Nucleo, in co-operation with local and foreign partners from Germany

and France. It will become part of the new ESPRIT/GRUNDTVIG Project that has recently been approved by

the National LLP Agency in co-operation with local and foreign partners from Germany, France and

Hungary.

In 2008/2009 a monitoring of the theatre /prison activities in Emilia-Romagna was carried out, under the

auspices of the Regional Authority and of the Municipality, with a specific forum organised in April 2009,

which gave rise to the Emilia-Romagna theatre/prison Coordination, whose lead partner is Teatro Nucleo.

A new performance drawing inspiration from “Woyzeck” by Georg Buechner is now under way whose

rehearsals are open to the public.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x





2.2 research x





3.1 monitoring x

3.2 evaluation x



(carried out in the frame work of Projects carried out with the support of

the National LifeLongLearning Agency - Grundtvig EU programme)

x

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PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 9 9 9 9

� 1 Project manager, 2 theatre practitioners, 2 video practitioners from Teatro Nucleo

� 2 practitioners from the Centro Servizi per il volontariato of Ferrara

� 2 practitioners from the Municipality of Ferrara –Social Services Councillorship



Board

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italians foreigner


(Minors) age 14-21

(Young Adults) Age 18-25 10101010 12121212

(Adults) Age > 25 20202020 15151515


Ex-offenders 1

Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence 4


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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: Operatore per laboratorio di cosmesi /Cosmetic laboratory Practitioner

Local Area/s oLocal Area/s oLocal Area/s oLocal Area/s of actionf actionf actionf action Veneto (Venice)


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) regional Funds

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , durationdurationdurationduration:::: 15.06.2009 – 02.11.2009

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization Soc. coop. Soc. “Rio Terà di Pensieri”

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Raffaele Lavorato, +39.338.6243046 [email protected]

SeSeSeSection II ction II ction II ction II –––– Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project Description of the project


the Cooperative was set up in 1994. it is equipped with laboratories manufacturing silk-screening and

leather items, creating cosmetic products, growing organic vegetables, carrying out bookbinding and

assembly activities. It has entered an agreement with male/female Prisons to organize training course

addressed to male/female offenders. A cosmetic laboratory is located inside the female prison. It uses

aromatic and medial herbs grown in the home garden to distil essential oils for the manufacturing of

cosmetic products.


The project is intended to train an expert to perform controls on the chemical and physical parameters of

raw materials and on the quality of the finished product, and to operate cosmetic products packaging

machines. These technical skills are acquired to be spent in similar manufacturing sectors specialising in

the automatic product packaging.


The cosmetic laboratory operator is an occupational profile with theoretical and practical skills that allow

the processing of cosmetic products according to set standards and formulas both manually and by means

of semi-automatic packaging machines. The methodologies that are adopted, the discussion and

comparison, practical drills and problem-solving sessions on the acquired notions in chemistry, biology,

etc allow trainees to acquire the necessary skills to carry out one’s work with method, accuracy and

precision. This will open up opportunities to acquire major orders from large hotels based in the area

around Venice and in large supermarket chains

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1.1 guidance

1.2 training x





2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 15 offenders (6 Italians, 9 foreigners)

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Guidance, Training, Work experience, Incentives to work integration

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Tuscany (Province of Massa Carrara)

Total budgetTotal budgetTotal budgetTotal budget € 298.280

Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) ROP ESF Ob 3 2000/2006 and ROP ESF CRO 2007/2013

Underway:

• Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ROP ESF ob 3 2000/2006 and ROP ESF CRO 2007/2013 -

guidance Helpdesk at the Prison of Massa and at UEPE (ufficio esecuzione penale esterna / Criminal

Justice Social Work Service)

• Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ROP ESF CRO 2007/2013 - Integrated Project of the 5

provinces along the Tuscany coast ( Costa Toscana per l'Inclusione – CTXI) with training activities, job

placements and customised tutoring in the textile sector

Concluded:

• Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ROP ESF ob 3 2000/2006 - Training for the certification of

skills in the wood and iron carpentry, mechanics and fashion house with presence subsidy

• Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ROP ESF CRO 2007/2013 – Work experience inside/outside

prisons with the contribution of study vouchers

• Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other): ROP ESF CRO 2007/2013 – Public tender for Incentives to

work integration

DurationDurationDurationDuration: : : :

• Guidance Helpdesk at the Prison of Massa and at UEPE (ufficio esecuzione penale esterna / Criminal

Justice Social Work Service), ongoing since 2000

• Integrated Project of the 5 provinces along the Tuscany coast in the textile sector, ongoing since 2009

• Training for the certification of skills in the wood and iron carpentry, mechanics and fashion house from

May 2008 to May 2009

• Work experience inside/outside prisons with the contribution of study vouchers, from January 2009 to

May 2009

• Incentives to work integration, ongoing since March 2009

OrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizationsOrganizations

• Guidance Service (Labour policy and VET sector): guidance Helpdesk of in agreement initially with STOA’,

currently with ATI IAL whose lead partner is Cisl Tuscany;

• Work Service (Labour policy and VET sector): Work experience inside/outside prisons with the

contribution of study vouchers and Public tenders for Incentives to work integration;

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• Work Service (Labour policy and VET sector) in agreement with Livorno Sviluppo: InterProvincial Project in

the textile sector ;

• Work Service (Labour policy and VET sector) in agreement con Training Agencies: Training for the

certification of skills in the wood and iron carpentry, mechanics and fashion house. . . .

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Paola Marini Tel +39.0585.816662 - fax +39.0585.816697 [email protected]

OrganizationOrganizationOrganizationOrganization partner partner partner partnerssss

• Settore Formazione Professionale Servizio Lavoro / Vocational Training Sector, Work Service

• ATI

• Livorno Sviluppo

• Casa Circondariale di Massa ( District penitentiary)



The social reintegration of offenders detained in prison or in semicustody is a slow and problematic process.

In addition to normal difficulties linked to the labour market dynamics, also institutional and social prejudice

and constraints must be taken into account, since they tend to prolong disadvantaged people’ social

exclusion conditions.

At a national level, the need was felt to promote maximum synergy between national, regional, local

institutions and civil society to fully pursue the social reintegration aims, reducing relapse into crime,

preventing deviance and fostering social security.


Through its Project known as “The prison Neighbourhood of the City” the Province of Massa-Carrara tries to

meet the several needs/problems stemming from the social integration of offenders. The Project has

provided an early information and guidance service (through the guidance Helpdesk inside the prison and the

one at UEPE “Liberi di orientarsi”); training inside the prison (courses of wood and iron carpentry, mechanics

and textile techniques); work - experience (job placements inside/outside the prison) and vocational

requalification (Project known as Costa Toscana per l'Inclusione / Tuscany Coast for inclusion). They are

fundamental steps to envisage change in one’s life and a new knowledge that facilitates offenders’ social and

work integration.


The following actions have been agreed upon by the protocol of agreement subscribed by the Province and

District penitentiary, aimed at promoting work inside/outside the prison and restorative justice pathways,

according to law L. 22/06/2000 no. 193 "Smuraglia law":

• early information and guidance service;

• basic training pathways in the wood and iron carpentry sectors developed for the acquisition of

equivalent and certifiable skills (with reference to U.C. Rep.R.T.).;

• initial and specialist training Pathways for the acquisition of technical skills in the finishing of household

linen, (with reference to U.C. Rep.R.T.) ;

• support and customised activities aimed at dismantling exclusion and facilitating stable job

opportunities, through funded work - experience pathways;

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• Incentives for the hiring of offenders;

• Integrated Project of the 5 provinces along the Tuscany coast to strengthen the textile manufacturing

sector for the promotion of work opportunities within the textile manufacturing plants already present

inside the Prison of Massa. 6-month-long Work experience activities are going to be addressed to about

30 offenders. This intervention is integrated with the Project funded by the District penitentiary, the

Cassa delle Ammende of the Ministry of Justice, for the modernization of looms to make the prison a

centre of supply of all the Italian prisons.



1.1 guidance x

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation





• Massa-Carrara Province:1 P.O. Service Work practitioner; 1 guidance Service practitioners; different

administrative support units

Partners: ATI ( guidance): 3 practitioners; ATI (training): 8/9 units; Livorno Sviluppo: 8/9 units

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (Total number of final beneficiaries involved in the funded project) 74

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title Social Co-operative IT2

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Emilia-Romagna


Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other)Funding source/s (ESF, local funds, other) To support the development and growth of the cooperative, in

addition to the synergy of M.C.L., FOMAL and Cefal, they have taken part in other initiatives in the framework

of projects supported by public and private funds:

� community initiative (Employment, Equal...) projects;

� projects to support the business development funded by the: Municipality of Bologna; Overall Subsidy

“NOICON” for the “ work integration and reintegration of disadvantaged groups” of the ESF Ob.3, Measure

B1 Operational Programme; Province of Bologna, Measure D.3 - Development and strengthening of

entrepreneurship with priority on i new employment areas;

� projects funded by the bank Foundations (Fondazione Cassa of Risparmio in Bologna and Fondazione del

Monte di Bologna e Ravenna);

� voluntary sector activities by the Cooperative members;

At present, several private enterprises and public authorities provide IT2 with different contracts .

Several public authorities (Emilia-Romagna Region, Provincial authority of Bologna, prisons and different

local authorities, especially the Municipalities) and associations regularly benefit from the catering service.

UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway,,,, The Social Co-operative IT2 was set up in 1998, and is still in operation.

ImplemImplemImplemImplementing Organizationenting Organizationenting Organizationenting Organization At present the Social Co-operative is run by a BoD

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Flavio Venturi, +39.051.489611 [email protected]


Coop IT2 is promoted by MCL (Movimento Cristiano Lavoratori) and Cefal (Consorzio Europeo per la

Formazione e l’Addestramento dei Lavoratori). It was set up in 1998 in the framework of the of Community

initiative Employment Youthstart YES Project (Young Enterprise Solutions), which gave rise to the other

national YES networks of enterprises of transition in Italy drawing inspiration from the French model of

“entreprises d’insertion”.

In addition to the initial founders of the cooperative, in 2002, FOMAL (Fondazione Opera Madonna del

lavoro), joined the Coop IT2. It ha acquired a specific experience as Regional Catering School, and it has

provided a major contribution for the development of the Catering sector of the cooperative and of the

Restaurant of transition “Le Torri”.

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IdentIdentIdentIdentification of the problematic areaification of the problematic areaification of the problematic areaification of the problematic area

The social firm intends to meet work integration needs of disadvantaged people (offenders, Ex-offenders)

who are marginalised, through the creation of real work situations, i.e. “real” work contexts but also of

mediation services and environments in view of a work activity that will reconcile users’

training/education/socialization needs and enterprises’ needs


To promote work integration of socially and physically of disadvantaged people by letting them pass

through a sheltered context towards a real work context, by providing them with integrated work and

training pathways


The cooperative, which is organized as a company of transition to work, is fully integrated in a broad local

network of services and it is active in the restaurant, banqueting and catering sectors, as well as in the

cleaning and WEEE recycling sectors.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training x



x



2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation



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� Production managers: they take part in the definition of the customised Project and in the monitoring of

the user’s pathway inside the cooperative and in the initial phase of integration to other enterprises. This

activity is carried out through interviews aimed at addressing the general and technical issues; Skills:

pedagogical and relational skills, being the leading element in the building of user’s skills;

� Work transition managers: they are key actors in the cooperative. They are the partners of the Project

that has been set up to cater for the disadvantaged people’s needs. They play a leading role for users

and carry out a constant monitoring of activities. They act as liaison between users and local services.

They have the task to coordinate action. Finally they are in charge of the transition phase into external

enterprises, they get in touch with companies, they coach users during the early interviews and coach

them according to new integration model. Skills: this occupational profile is equipped with multiple

vocational skills in the area of social sciences;

� Technical Experts in various business sectors, i.e. restaurants, catering organization, etc….

In particular, three professionals are hired on a fixed basis by the restaurant, to coordinate and manage the

restaurant activities and two trainers, such as:

� a chef, a kitchen manager;

� a hall and bar manager;

� a chef-educator and a kitchen training manager;

� a teller manager;

� a hall educational manager.

The other members of the staff are people engaged in the training or transition to work pathway in the IT2

cooperative. People have different tasks, in the kitchen, bar and hall, according to the specific schedules

envisaged by each customised training or transition to work Project. All users who are involved in customised

Projects are reported by the local services that share the responsibility of the Educational Project with the IT2

pedagogical staff.

FINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIESFINAL BENEFICIARIES (total)(total)(total)(total) about 70 (year of reference:2008)

of whom: MMMM FFFF

Italians foreigner


(Minors) age 14-21 10%10%10%10% 15%15%15%15% 10 %10 %10 %10 % 15%15%15%15%

(Young Adults) Age 18-25 8%8%8%8% 5%5%5%5% 7%7%7%7% 5%5%5%5%

(Adults) Age > 25 5%5%5%5% 5%5%5%5% 5%5%5%5% 5%5%5%5%

Alternative measures to prosecution 3%

Ex-offenders 2%

Offenders who are about to finish serving their sentence 3%

Mothers with children 20%

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Project titleProject titleProject titleProject title:::: Il carcere che lavora /The working prison

Local Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of actionLocal Area/s of action Calabria



UnderwayUnderwayUnderwayUnderway, , , , started in May 2007

Implementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing OrganizationImplementing Organization PRAP Calabria

Contact PersonContact PersonContact PersonContact Person Mrs. Letizia De Luca – Educator +39.0961.880320


• Regione Calabria; Union Camere Calabria; Confindustria Calabria; Confartigianato Calabria,

Confagricoltura Calabria.




• Set up vocational training and skilled training activities inside the prison;

• Create an integrated system between work inside the prison and enterprises outside the prison.



1.1 guidance

1.2 training



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2.2 research





3.1 monitoring

3.2 evaluation




PRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIESPRACTITIONERS INVOLVED IN PROJECT ACTIVITIES (total)(total)(total)(total) 14, of whom 12 practitioners inside the prison and

2 outside the prison.


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