The main object of the project "V.O.I.C.E.: Voice of Inclusion, Citizenship, Empowermet", is to develop soft skills of people with fewer opportunities increasing their individual empowerment. The direct beneficiaries are the care leavers professionals that will develop specific competences with the purpose to help all the disadvantaged subjects to decrease their social exclusion. The project takes sprout from the relief need of care givers to have scarce competences finalize to the increase of the social awareness of people with fewer opportunity. They have lack of formative experiences of active citizenship that have as finality the expansion of the autonomy of the individual, the recognition of their own identity, the ability to activate processes of change. Moreover they don't have specific knowledge on the right of digital citizenship and raising awareness on on-line safety and digital well-being, including cyberbullying, fake news and other forms of online misinformation. Project V.O.I.C.E. project will help care givers to develop specific professional competence This objective will be reached through specific training, study visit and best practice, that will allow the care givers to widen their professional competences and to help the more fragile social categories to understand what their needs are, what their desires and as to reach them. Output of the project will be a a metodologic guideline on "Active citizenship for fewer opportunities" and a Toolkit on "Right and Responsibilities on Citizenship"
The Voice project aimed to increase awareness of rights access among the most fragile groups and consequently increase their chances for social inclusion. To achieve this goal, we responded to the training deficiencies of educators, improving their skills and knowledge with regard to the promotion and protection of the rights of vulnerable people both on social/web and in the social world (increased individual empowerment)
The project takes its origin from the need, identified among social workers, to have scarce skills aimed at increasing self-awareness and the ability to self-determine, in individuals who normally lack visibility and social voice. There was evidence of a lack of training experiences aimed at empowering the individual's autonomy, the recognition of one's identity, the ability to activate processes of change and existential planning, the appreciation of confrontation with others and diversity, solidarity and cooperation. The training need identified was to support the empowerment of disadvantaged people through active citizenship experiences. But it is also regarding the topic of digital citizenship rights and the risks related to the world of the web (Cyberbullying, sexting, fake news) that training deficiencies had been highlighted. Digital exclusion and the inability to have adequate tools to read social, are factors that affect the concrete possibilities of empowerment both individually and collectively and that often in the most fragile categories add up and amplify the extent of other social inequalities. These were the issues and needs that the "Voice" project responded to.