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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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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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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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