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The Educational Service for Adolescents (SEA) operates in the age group from fourteen to twenty-one with individual and small group educational interventions.

The main purpose is the prevention of:

• discomfort
• dropout and school dropout
• risky behaviors
• conflict.

through actions that promote integration, return to the education cycle and educational success.

It is also responsible for designing accompaniment and educational support courses:

• alternatives to detention
• aimed at reintegration in the phase immediately following incarceration
• oriented towards resuming the normal process of resocialisation, training and professionalisation.

This tends to restore or build the boy's autonomy, avoiding recidivism.

The Cesare Beccaria Juvenile Penal Institute is a prison facility for children aged 14 to 18.
A team from the Adolescent Educational Service (SEA) operates within it. The team is made up of a coordinator and 5 educators with the functions of:

• educational provision in the coexistence spaces within the medium/long-term stay groups at the Institute
• management of small group laboratory activities aimed at simulating real work within the Institute.

What is tutoring for?
Tutoring promotes a process of growth and change through the educational relationship with the child.

TO WHOM IS IT ADDRESSED?
It is aimed at boys and girls in the Milan area aged between 14 and 18 (and up to 21 in cases of continuation of administrative foster care) who have been reported by:

• Social Services of the Ministry of Justice
• Family Social Services of the Municipality of Milan
• Service for Minors Subjected to Criminal Proceedings of the Municipality of Milan
• Employment Mediation Center of the Municipality of Milan
• ASL
• Private Social.

Children can also access the service spontaneously.

Who does it
The educators coming from the Beccaria Institute are identified as the most suitable to plan an intervention with minors.

The professionalism and experience gained allow them to build effective educational practices and to respond to the needs of guaranteeing and protecting minors in the area of ​​hardship, in the criminal and non-criminal circuit.

They are aimed at pre-adolescents and adolescents at risk of educational failure or school dropout.

The workshops are open to lower secondary school students upon recommendation of the manager or coordinator of the child for whom an integrated path is to be proposed, in agreement with him and his family.

Agro-Zootechnical Laboratory
Inside the "Rinnovata Pizzigoni" Elementary School, in via Castellino da Castello, 10, there is an agricultural company that has vegetable gardens, fields sown according to the season and animals. The children are included in two types of educational paths: integrated school-laboratory paths and socialization at work paths.

In both cases, the boys are responsible for feeding the animals and cleaning their living environments and, depending on the seasons, they dedicate themselves to fertilizing the land and sowing seeds, pruning the hedges and trees and picking the fruit.

Computer Laboratory
The laboratory stimulates you to think, to open up to new perspectives on the world by using tools to improve your knowledge of doing, creating, redoing or recreating while finding motivation.

A path is activated by identifying the need, interpreting curiosities and individual interests, self-awareness and inner exploration.

The laboratory, in via Pastrengo, 6, is made up of multiple computers, both Windows and Ubuntu, on the network. The different paths range from the use of spreadsheets to the creation of virtual landscapes, from the first programming approaches to the creation of blogs.