MOBi project was conceived to respond to an evolving need, namely the social inclusion of (ex) offenders. It’s a project idea that proposes innovative integrated approaches in order to diminish the distance existing between society, in general, and the Criminal Justice System, in particular, by using the tools of adult education. MOBi goals matching: 1.Understand the EU contemporary punishment and reintegration picture in terms of society's’ perception, participation, offenders labelling, return to work or to community, building a quick assessment tool to measure society “culture” towards punishment and reintegration 2.To create new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to respond to (ex)offenders’ reintegration process 3.To develop a community engagement methodology to support CJS organisations and practitioners, and closest stakeholders’ efforts on reinforcing existent community (society) based approaches 4.To design one transnational training programme, to be executed by key-organisations, aiming civil society in order to ensure that all citizens have access to knowledge on CJS rehabilitation model and re-thinking on their individual role in the reintegration process 5.To deliver a Handbook, to support different enterprises/organisations from Public, Private and Third Sector developing their social responsibility and participation on CJS and offenders’ reintegration. The methodology of the project follows a waterfall implementation strategy, in which the first activities will supply the necessary inputs to develop the following ones. In order to understand the EU contemporary punishment and reintegration picture in terms of society's perception of CJS, partners will apply an electronic survey sent to all EU Member States (civic society); at the same time, partners will also try to understand offenders’ fears and stereotypes, applying one survey in prison context. IO3 is intended on to create one Methodology on Community engagement in CJS, aiming to support a needs analysis on community engagement towards effective support to CJS. IO4 is focus on creating a Toolbox for training community awareness on CJS, (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes. The IO will focus on the design of a course curricula aligned with results of the assessment tools to screen society perceptions (waterfall methodology). At the same time, partners will engage civil society: enterprises, NGOs, Foundations, Universities, etc., inviting them to be associated partners and to run inside their facilities Community Mobilization and Empowerment Workshops. (Ex) Offenders will be invited to present their testimony. The last IO aims to ensure that this package (assessment + methodology + training) can be replicated in any EU country with the intended purpose of up-scaling to public policy recommendation, by delivering a Handbook for community awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes. During project implementation it’s foresee tangible and intangible results. Intangible results 25 validation workshops involving 150 experts 1 000 responses to the assessment tools (200 per country) 5 train the trainers pilots 40 experts/prison workers/trainers trained 10 Community Mobilization and Empowerment workshops 200 people involved 6 Transnational meetings 6 visits to national prisons 3 Short-Term Staff Training Events 5 open seminars Tangible results 1 assessment tool to screen society perceptions on (ex)offenders’ needs and CJS function 1 assessment tool to screen offender’s perceptions on society acceptance regarding reintegration process 1 methodology on community engagement in CJS 5 training courses on community awareness on CJS, (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes 10 Community Mobilization and Empowerment workshops 1 Toolbox for training community awareness on CJS, (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes 1 Handbook for community awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes We expect MOBi project to have a significant impact on: _offenders and (ex) offenders: giving them voice to express their fears and perceptions on society acceptance regarding reintegration process. _prison staff/trainers, they will receive training and gain new information during the training activities useful for everyday faced challenges. They will acquire new knowledge, and strategies to deal with society prejudices and stereotypes, and competencies to transfer knowledge about prison system. _ to build solidarity between Europe citizens, solidarity across borders between its Member States, and solidarity in its action inside and outside the Union. We expect the connection between prison and private organisation, being non-profit or for profit to increase, pulled by the creation of win-win collaborations.
The MOBi project is a partnership of eight organizations present in five different EU countries. The project is led by CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE-CPIP and aimed to: • Understand the European contemporary punishment and reintegration picture in terms of society's perception, participation, offenders labelling, return to work or to community, building an assessment tool to measure society ‘culture’ towards punishment and reintegration • To create new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to respond to (ex)offenders’ reintegration process • To develop a community engagement methodology to support Criminal Justice System (CJS) organisations, practitioners, and closest stakeholders’ efforts on reinforcing existent community (society) based approaches • To design one transnational training programme, to be executed by key-organisations, aimed at civil society, to ensure that all citizens have access to knowledge of the rehabilitation model at work in their own criminal justice system, and are therefore able to review their own, individual role in the reintegration process • To deliver a Handbook, to support different organisations from Public, Private and Third Sector developing their social responsibility and participation on CJS and offender’s reintegration. The eight organizations partners are Genepi (France), Bremen Senate of Justice and Constitution and Hoppenbank e.V. (Germany), Associazione Antigone (Italy), Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais and Aproximar, Cooperativa de Solidariedade Social (Portugal), Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning - CPIP and The Baia Mare Penitentiary (Romania). During the project partners have been developing a set of Intellectual Outputs (IO), namely: IO1: Assessment Tool to screen society’s perceptions on (ex) offenders needs and CJS function IO2: Assessment Tool to screen offender’s perceptions on society acceptance regarding reintegration process IO3: Methodology on Community engagement in CJS IO4: Training course on community awareness on CJS, (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation & reintegration processes O5: Handbook on community awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation & reintegration processes. The MOBI process and way of work was to ensure that this package of assessment, methodology and training can and will be replicated in any European Union country with the intended purpose of up-scaling to public policy recommendation and raising awareness of (ex)offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration processes. It’s destined to civil society organizations in general in order to put their values on action to enhance (ex)offenders’ reintegration process. One of the expected results MOBI has attained is a civil society more informed about prison services operation, different offender populations and strategies to actively participate on offenders’ social reintegration, with special focus on employment issues. Thus, our MOBI results were used by workers and trainers linked to Prison Services who intend to developed key-competences to transmit how the services work, who are the clients, what are their needs, etc. as well as by organizations from Public, Private and Third Sector developing their social responsibility and participation on Criminal Justice System and offender’s reintegration. In this sense, MOBi project was conceived to respond to an evolving need, namely the social inclusion of (ex) offenders and the creation of a collaborative context whereas both prison and community engage into a "co-working" mindset focus on making reintegration a lifelong learning process for both offenders and civil society. The project proposes an innovative integrated approach in order to diminish the distance existing between society, in general, and the Criminal Justice System by using the tools of adult education.