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Monday, 31 January 2011 17:38

Michelle Obama at the National Mentoring Summit

Washington. Last January 25th, during the first national edition of Mentoring "Reaching academic and social success: supporting youths with Mentoring", the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has confirmed her support to Mentoring, which is also included in the "Biden Plan" of Barack Obama. She has announced the Mentoring Corporate Challenge, an initiative promoted by Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to encourage companies in the United States to support Mentoring programs which help young people to reach their educational targets and improving their trust. The conference was an opportunity to meet with other associations which confronted and underlined the need of integrating social contents to companies activities.

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Friday, 28 January 2011 09:07

In & Out Meeting, Legality paths.

On Friday January 28th at 9.00 a.m. it was held in Palermo at the complex Malaspina, "Baviera Room", the meeting "In & Out, Legality Paths" which involves authorities, experts from the world of Juvenile Justice and representatives of specialist organizations. The agency which organized the conference is Euro Research Center, promotion and community initiative together with National Organization for Emigrant Families and the organization Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO.

Legality Paths includes itself in the field of National Operational Program "Safety for the development of Italian Mezzogiorno" – Convergence Target 2007 – 2013, aimed to help young people to get out of criminal law and widening the opportunity of social and work integration. Under-ages helped by the Services of Juvenile Justice will be joined by tutors selected and trained according the model of the Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO.

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Monday, 24 January 2011 17:44

New York: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe meets Matilda Raffa Cuomo.

In recent days Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe during his visit in New York to promote the initiative "DireNapoli", has met at the Italian Consulate, at a dinner organized by the General Consul Francesco Maria Talò, Mrs Matilda Raffa Cuomo.

The experience of Mentoring in the United States, Italy, and Spain drew the attention of the Cardinal. The educational path proposed by Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO is an experience which is built together and involves everybody.

From here the firm belief of a greater support and participation by the Cardinal upon his return in Naples, to promote this methodology designed by Mrs. Matilda Cuomo. The opportunity of another meeting between the Cardinal and Mrs. Cuomo will be Mrs. Cuomo's next trip to Italy, to prepare the World Forum 2012 together with Mentoring USA/Italy – NPO chaired by Sergio Cuomo.

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Thursday, 05 August 2010 09:13

Mentoring and British American Tobacco against under-age tobacco addiction.

Contrasting the phenomenon of tobacco addiction among under-ages is one of the more efficient prevention actions to soothe the negative effects of smoke on health and individual behavior. British American Tobacco Italy wants to contribute to reduce this malaise looking for solutions able to favor the growth of a more balanced and supportive society. Every initiative to prevent tobacco addiction in under-ages must focus on different factors which make young people start smoking cigarette. Starting smoking is a consequence of an individual behavioral process, environmental and social, rarely ascribable to a single event. The under-age behaves like an adult smoker or peers to feel part of a social and cultural group and to claim their own personalities. Since the end of the Sixties the school was considered the place to spread information regarding health.Nowadays things have changed. School is the place where young people start smoking, following the example of their peers. From here comes the interest towards the Mentor Project proposed by Mentoring USA/Italy. British American Tobacco Italy has showed its interest in supporting the Mentoring Program 2010/2011 which focus on the inclusion of an education action aimed to prevent under-age smoking monitoring the educational response of the action started through statistical elaboration. The message is: those who smoke are not free, they are slave of tobacco addiction; cigarettes do not help, they cause problems. The key messages of the campaign are not conveyed as a prohibition or warning. Instead, they focus on an emotional appeal and creative communication. Under-ages who start smoking put at risk their health and life. These messages must be transmitted highlighting a positive behavior towards life, without smoking.

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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 09:58

Mentoring in juvenile re-education centers

It was held in recent days, at the Italian Consulate in New York, a meeting between Mrs. Matilda Raffa Cuomo and senator Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati State under-secretary of Justice to discuss how to apply the method one-to-one in re-education centers aimed to favor inclusion of under-ages who are leaving the prison system.

This expertise, which also used scientific monitoring of University "La Sapienza" in Rome can represent an efficient contribution to favor social re-inclusion of kids with law problems.

Mentoring in jails offers opportunities to help under-ages who have not left the prison system and to have a social perspective, relational, and to ease the construction of a life project with a positive connotation.

The experience of Mentoring USA/Italy will represent a sharing opportunity with personnel who work in juvenile prisons. The educational activity will include the valorization of the communication and interpersonal relationships as a founding moment for young people who need to be re-included to social life. In this regard, it will be find work and life paths with the support of local companies and jail personnel will be trained on communication and interpersonal relationships.

During the creation of bridge between jail reality and working reality, it will be important to involve company workers with a double function: being matched in a one-to-one relation with kids (mentees) and in a big group given their feedback regarding how they built a work and personal growth path.

Soon there will be a meeting between Sergio Cuomo, national president of "Mentoring USA/Italy" – NPO and the under-secretary Casellati.

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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:49

Mentoring member and host of the World Forum 2010.

World Forum 2010. From November the 8th to 11th 2010, international child welfare representatives and experts, gathered at the IBM Palisades Learning Center in New York for the twenty-first international annual meeting of IFCW (International Forum for Child Welfare) aimed to promot…

Training Courses in Spain

On April 29thit was held in Algeciras, in the region of Andalusia, the first training course for Volunteer Mentors who will join, in a one-to-one relationship, early school leavers who attend compulsory school. The beginning of this new and engaging path has been strongly wanted by the Ita…

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