Monday, 12 April 2010 09:04
It has been supported by Vodafone Italy Foundation, Education Department, Training and Work of the Campania Region and the School Regional Office for a three year period 2006 – 2009; it has involved 10 schools in Campania, allowing to more than 100 students, with school issues, to benefit from the Matilda Raffa Cuomo's one-to-one method. The aim of the project has been carrying out an educational action to prevent and fight school dropouts with instruments, in particular volunteer Mentors, aimed at enhancing relational and emotional skills of young people.
The initiative has showed to be an efficient intervention to face problems such as: low school attendance, failures, early school leaving which can overall reach alarming proportion asking for a specific individual intervention. The mentoring activity has mainly focused on: dialogue, comparison, friendship and discussion regarding particular topics and biases thus letting emerge individual socio-relational (School, Family, and Peers) and work skills (job and career orientation).
The Mentor Project Activity has also realized an assessment of the intervention model in Schools carried out by Maria D'Alessio, Chair of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".




















