Project "RemiX – Reti di supporto per minori migranti"

The project aims to implement a service system to support minors with a migrant background who experience vulnerabilities, by establishing partnerships and synergies between the public and private sectors, strengthening territorial networks and “RemìX spaces”, (piloted in the previous edition the Remi Project -FAMI 2014-2020-), as innovative services for prevention, identification, and addressing vulnerabilities.

General objective

Support the improvement and empowerment of the service system – and more broadly the adults responsible – in addressing the vulnerabilities of minors with a migrant background. The focus is on combating violence through an intercultural approach.

Specific objectives

Improve the ability of reference adults to fulfill their role of protection, guidance, and support for migrant minors.
Strengthen the system’s capacity to prevent, identify, and address the vulnerabilities of minors with a migrant background, also through the consolidation of the role of diaspora communities.
Develop a model to address the vulnerability of minors and families with a migrant background through an empowering intercultural approach.
Activate a communication and dissemination process that can support the success of the project and, at the same time, help to understand and act on the vulnerabilities affecting foreign minors.

Activities

1. Activation and Enhancement of RemìX Spaces

- Value the skills acquired and the intervention model tested (Remì Project – FAMI) through collaboration and peer training among multidisciplinary teams.
- Activities and support services to empower the network of “reference adults” for migrant minors (counseling and personalised support, linguistic-cultural mediation, legal advice, psychological support, parenting support activities, and workshops for minors).

2. Capacity Building

- Empowerment of service operators and reference adults through: co-design of training interventions, delivery of training modules on key topics of combating violence against migrant minors and vulnerability, creation of workshops as spaces for reflection and exchange of experiences, delivery of webinars, support services, supervision, and on-the-job training.
- Consolidation of the role of diaspora communities in the processes of addressing and managing vulnerabilities by: identifying and empowering community agents through informative/training meetings, workshops, and co-designing information tools.

3. Definition of an Empowering Intercultural Methodology

- Guided self-reflection groups for RemìX space practitioners to evaluate practical approaches to managing intercultural sensitivity.
- Focus groups with community agents to reflect on the motivations that drive a person with a migrant background to take responsibility for leading their community.

4. Awareness, Communication, and Dissemination

- Project dissemination activities and results through online and offline channels.
- An awareness-raising campaign co-designed with community agents with the aim of producing 6 multilingual service maps and a video to inform the public about the vulnerabilities of foreign minors.