The Re-ability project aims to improve the socio-relational and emotional skills of women / mothers victims of violence temporarily hosted in a residential community and / or taken in charge by anti-violence centers. To achieve this goal it is necessary to enhance the skills of the operators / educators of the communities and centers also in terms of learning new skills and provide them with innovative operational tools that allow women / mothers to achieve good levels of socio-relational skills and emotional. Alongside the path of psychological and emotional support, adults who have experienced a particular trauma and a difficult path, also in socio-relational terms, and who have a fundamental educational task (as parents) need to acquire and enhance personal skills compared the path of care / support they are experiencing. These are in particular EMOTIVE and socio-relational skills such as self-awareness, management of emotions, stress management, empathy, effective communication, effective relationships. Precisely for this reason, with a view to change in terms of modernization and internationalization of partner organizations, exchange and sharing of good practices, we intend to create a series of tools and results capable of creating an interconnection between formal, informal and non-formal learning formal and raise the quality of the "education" offered to women / mothers and their children guests in the community. Specifically the project aims to carry out three Intellectual Output: 1. Parent Education Plan, a tool for the realization of an individualized project aimed at strengthening parenting skills, starting from the strengths and weaknesses of women / mothers victims of violence, but also and above all from their needs and desires 2. Promote and develop the socio-relational and emotional skills of mothers: paths, tools, ideas and activities. It is a Toolkit of tools useful to the educator to achieve the objectives of the Parent Education Plan 3. New educational needs: recommendations from mothers who are victims of violence. This is a publication in which the data and results of previous IOs will be collected accompanied by real political recommendations so that mothers will be given a voice in dialogue with political decision-makers Quattro Transnational Meetings are planned, which in addition to having the objective of organizing the project activities from a technical and scientific point of view and defining the financial and reporting aspects, are also used as a moment of exchange of practices and study visits in the centers of the organizations partner. Cinque Multiplier Events are planned as dissemination moments, one for each partner country. The idea is that these MEs, some of which are programmed to take place simultaneously, can have a strong impact and reach as many people as possible thanks to the use of new technologies. From the implementation of the activities, the following results are expected: As for the host mothers or women of the anti-violence centers: • Strengthen socio-relational skills • Strengthen emotional skills • Strengthen parenting skills • Increase awareness of one's own experiences • Promote appropriate and functional attachment styles • Promote greater social inclusion As for educators: • Offer valid support tools to their work • Improve the ability to offer support • Activate tools for change that can be subject to evaluation and monitoring • Increase professional skills • Creation of a specific and professionalizing intervention model • Promote networking and • outline a shared vision of the area of intervention to accompany vulnerable parenting, identifying the transversal objectives and the actions that allow to achieve these objectives; • provide common guidelines with respect to interventions aimed at families living in situations of vulnerability primarily at local level; • facilitate services in operating in a compliant manner; • to provide local authorities and services with an overall picture of the indications coming from the most recent Italian and international scientific research and from the knowledge produced through innovative national experiences; • start a renewal of inter-professional and inter-institutional practices through the construction of new balances and concrete forms of sharing responsibility between promotion, prevention, administrative protection and protection
The objective of the project is to work on learning and strengthening the skills of the woman/mother to ensure the healthy growth of the child while protecting her rights. Some of the centres for women who are victims of violence or mothers in a vulnerable condition of the partnership organisations work 24 hours a day, they are facilities that welcome the woman and the minor by offering them alternative accommodation; others work more like help desks. In both cases, the time that these centres have in charge of women with their children must be used to promote a real change of perspective on the part of the mother, who must come out of this process stronger than before. Experience in the field teaches us how strong the need is to work with these women both on strengthening existing ties and on the ability to create new ones, a network to which they can refer so as not to feel alone, and this consequently entails the need to strengthen emotional and relational skills.
In all European countries there are residential centers care and services that welcome women who are victims of violence with their children, or 'mother-child' shelters that welcome mothers and children who are temporarily in a situation of distress and/or fragility for which they need accompaniment and/or socio-educational support. These services at a European level, albeit with different standards and models, are united by the aim of promoting the well-being of women and minors in order to contain or prevent situations of developmental/relational distress, as well as material distress related to living and working conditions. Social conditions and the great changes in which our society lives, with the new educational needs of children, require adults to develop new parental and educational skills. To this end, the Re-Ability project has set itself the objective of supporting the parenting skills of mothers who turn to our services and who are faced with an important change, since they are coming out of a difficult history, often made up of violence, but also of emotional deficiency, parental incapacity, and neglect.