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Milan, August 21 2019 – Help desks, projects, workshops, educational and orientation courses. There are many interventions that the Municipality of Milan implements to accompany adolescent boys and girls through delicate phases, such as school inclusion and reintegration or the choice of the best study path, with the aim of combating dropout as much as possible and facilitate inclusion processes.

“Adolescence begins one of the most difficult phases for children and their families – declares the councilor for Education and Instruction Laura Galimberti –, a phase that the Administration wants to concretely accompany, to try to reduce as much as possible the phenomenon of school dropout and to guarantee everyone access to school, inclusion and inclusion in society".

To continue the actions already underway within the IPM Beccaria, for example, the Council has decided to acknowledge the participation in the "Inside out 2.0" project, as an associated partner, with which Fondazione Enaip Lombardia ( leader) participated in the public notice of the Lombardy Region for the consolidation of inclusion interventions for people subjected to measures by the judicial authority. The Municipality of Milan has in fact been present at Beccaria since 1979 with the Center for Restorative Justice and Criminal Mediation unit, which in 2018 implemented over 16.500 actions for a total of 960 presences (6.630 between January and July 2019 with 380 attendance).

There are various interventions within the juvenile prison: from 'bridge' actions for children leaving the Institute, through orientation towards the territory, services and institutions, to individualized educational paths, from cultural and socialization activities to workshops for small groups. The Spazio Mediando was also tested, which accommodates different types of conflicts regarding internal relations between prisoners, between penitentiary police officers and prisoners, between educators and prisoners, between penitentiary police officers and educators.

These interventions of the Restorative Justice Center are accompanied by the actions of the SEA (educational service for adolescents), which in the 2018/2019 school year designed and implemented individualized and integrated school-laboratory educational paths for boys and girls at risk of dropping out, reported by 11 lower secondary schools (437 presences), and scholastic reintegration and recovery paths through the SeguiMI a Scuola help desk (108 presences).

Furthermore, through the school orientation offices (PoliStart), 211 children and their families were reached through study support actions, 48 ​​L2 scholastic integration workshops were held for 725 students and 225 hours of linguistic-cultural mediation were provided. And again, the staff of "Cercooffro scuola", the school orientation desk aimed at young foreigners aged 14 to 21, welcomed 2018 pupils and families in 117 and carried out 147 orientation interviews, accompanying the children in choosing the most suitable school. suitable and supporting them in the registration phase.

Thirty-five schools in Milan were involved in the SEA school orientation service, which involved over 4.000 students (and families) and over 400 teachers, through consultancy, individual interviews and preparatory meetings to accompany the choice. school. Individual consultancy activities were also aimed at around 30 students from 20 schools who benefit from the educational support.

The Arteducation Space was then created in co-planning between the SEA and Third Sector entities, where art and education work together to transform themselves into vehicles for fighting social exclusion and reducing disparities to a minimum: 94 were involved children between 11 and 21 years old. Inside, the projects "Art as Education" and "Doors with children" interact, which involved 192 children, 25 teachers and 2 schools.

Finally, the CIA (Education Center for adults and adolescents) is also aimed at adolescents and adults, aimed at combating school dropout and returning to education, through day and evening courses to recover school years and obtain a qualification . In the 2018/2019 school year, there were 476 users of the CIA. From a survey carried out through 171 interviews, it also emerged that 49% of the students attending day courses come from technical institutes, 25% from high schools, 14 % from professional institutes and 12% from professional training centers. 80% of those enrolled and attending manage to pass the qualification exam.