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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.