Non fOrmal Innovative tools to foster life Skills of juvenilE prisoners Erasmus Project

Project Title

Non fOrmal Innovative tools to foster life Skills of juvenilE prisoners

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The efforts done in the last decades from the EU institutions to provide, accordingly to international and EU convention on protection of children and young people, better policies in the juvenile justice system have proven to create positive effects for many young European, but there is still lot to be done. The rationale of those policies and recommendation is the same as the one that leads to NOISE: support youth in participation process, preventing them to fully or partially disengage from the “social contract” and help them to develop attitude, skills and knowledge for a fully integrated life in EU society. Partners in the NOISE consortium observed that the situation at the end of the sentence escaped from any protocol and/or coaching process which led the youth quickly to reproduce crimes so to enroll them in a “career of recidivism”.

Given the needs analysis, that is shared by all partners and that gives the same outcomes both at national and EU level, NOISE partners agreed to focus the intervention of the exchange of best practices in the field of life skills development for young offenders, and thus the correspondent tailored training for professionals working with this specific target group.

General objectives:
– Promote and reinforce cooperation between the different organizations that relate with the development of young offenders (justice, health, education, culture, sport)
– Prevent from recidivism through improved models of intervention based on non formal strategies and programs
– Facilitate and strengthen social and labour insertion of young offenders, promoting social inclusion, employability, intercultural dialogue in the juvenile prison environment
– increase the implementation of non formal methods and tools for juveniles offenders in order to maximize the positive impacts which implementation of such measures would bring back into the society as a whole.

Specific objectives:
1. Exchange best practices in the field of professional youth work to prevent recidivism and promote the social reintegration of juvenile offenders by developing their life skills
2. Train at least 25 youth workers/social workers/prison officers at international level and 40 at national level, in each partner country, on the best practices exchanged
3. Empower young offenders to overcome their obstacles to a full inclusion by developing their life skills, in particular their spirit of initiative, self-consciousness, ability to manage interpersonal relations
4. Collect European best practices in partner countries related with the development of life skills in young offenders and publish a toolkit, called NOISE Toolkit, to be implemented and tested in selected juvenile prisons.

To reach these objectives, the project is organized in 5 work programmes.
WP0 – Project Management, Quality Assurance and Risk management (M1-M28)
WP1 – Preparation and promotion (M1-M4)
WP2 – International Staff training and local needs analysis (M5-M13). This WP includes 4 joint staff training events during which the exchange of best practices will take place concretely
WP3 – Collection of best practices and publication of the NOISE Toolkit (M8-M13): during this WP, partners will analyse the best practices shared and the learning outcomes reached during the international trainings and produce a collection called NOISE Toolkit. This will be the main sustainable, tangible output of our project.
WP4 – Implementation of the NOISE Toolkit in juvenile prisons (M21-M25): during this WP, once educators and juvenile prison staff will have been trained and integrated the Toolkit as part of their professional background, they will test the non formal educational tools included in the Toolkit at local level, in all partner countries. Juvenile prisons or reintegration services will be the involved since the very early stage of the project.

Professionals working with juvenile offenders will improve their youth work methodology, including those non formal tools (i.e. circle time, brain-storming, problem solving, mindfulness, T-Group, Team building) aimed at stimulating the life skills of young offenders, supporting their successful reintegration in society. Thanks to the implementation of the NOISE Toolkit in selected juvenile prisons, young offenders will practice leadership and responsibility, mindfulness and conflict solving, to which they are not used to, improving their self esteem and awareness of their own ability.

WP5 – A3 (M26-M28): DEOR strategy evaluation, follow up, including the evaluation of the learning outcomes with Youthpass and Europass documents.

NOISE will reach a wide sustainable impact on:
– Directly involved youth workers/social workers/educators/prison officers who participate in LTTA, national training and implementation of NOISE toolkit
– Directly involved young offenders aged under 18 y.o. in juvenile prisons or probation services who take part in WP4
– Partner organizations, stakeholders and associated partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80880 Eur

Project Coordinator

SOCIETA’ ITALIANA DI MEDICINA E SANITA’ PENITENZIARIA ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Vsi “Psichologiniu ideju namai”
• Freedom Gate Greece
• Dione Youth Organization
• Associazione Culturale Pro.m.e.t.eu.s