RE-Ability project – adult education to promote Relational Skills
The RE-Ability project – adult education to promote Relational Skills
is a strategic partnership for adult education funded by the Erasmus + Programme 2014-2020.
The partnership is composed of non-profit organisations and associations belonging to the third sector that have been working with women victims of violence for years.
The Partnership
The Project
The RE-Ability project – adult education to promote Relational Skills, intends to support the parenting skills of guest mothers within the care centers with their minors, to ensure that the mother-child couple can experience their relationship by establishing daily life and balance in their experience and by offering the mother educational accompaniment paths that can grow sufficient parenting, social-work, self-management and child-management skills and autonomy.
In order to do this, we need to assess the mother’s basic skills when she enters the care and draw up a parenting education plan, indicating the activities needed to achieve the set goals. To this end, a toolkit will be made available to mothers and operators with indications of possible activities for mothers to carry out with their children independently or guided by an expert.
Output
Parenting educational plan
This is a tool designed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of mothers who are victims of violence placed in care centers, shelters, or who turn to specialised centres in order to make an initial assessment that allows operators to have a basic picture and gives useful indications for the achievement of objectives.
The instrument is a questionnaire designed to investigate 4 areas, each of which in turn identifies within it a number of sub-areas:
- Area of awareness – personal experience, educational style, locus of control, educational model
- Communication area – assertive, passive, aggressive
- Relationship area – empathy, trust in others, effective relationships, network and social support
- Emotions area – emotion recognition, emotion management, appropriate response, coping strategies
It was produced in two versions, the first consisting of 95 items and the second of 47 to make it easily adaptable to different application contexts.