Project Description

The goal is to increase the specific professional training provisions that will enforce the involvement of different parts involved in the management of juvenile crime, for a better response to the needs for social inclusion of minor offenders.

The general objectives are:

1. To upgrade the professional competencies by specific professional training of different categories directly or indirectly involved in the management of juvenile criminality and in the assistance of minor offenders.

2. To endow the family members with specific competencies.

3. To increase the functionality and inter-operability of the structures that manages the juvenile crime.

The project designed, identified, tested, evaluated and disseminated an Educational Toolkit, aimed at developing both the educational process and the working experience in the care and social services sector. Beneficiaries of the project are ex-inmates (recently out of prison and in need of support) and inmates (who may access alternative measures to imprisonment, which gives an opportunity to those convicted of an offence to serve some or all of a sentence of imprisonment outside prison).

Results:

1. The reinforcement of networking, with associations and NGOs involved in the social sector and organisations in the field of education and prison environment;

2. The application of the principles of the Restorative Justice, as a possible model for the resolution of the consequences of a crime;

3. The development of an innovative prevention strategy to reduce the levels of reoffending, by the identification of a new direction for the civic and social coexistence of the disadvantaged