Workshops
FOCUS GROUP WITH FAMILIES Consortium of MAJMIN 1 – LLP – Leonardo da Vinci – Development of Innovation Project – Project Number: 517580-LLP-1-2011-1-RO-LEONARDO-LMP
Motivations • There is the need of involving family members in order to let them get awareness and responsibility; • There is the need of allowing family members to catch the proper information, to give and to receive appropriate feedbacks; • There is the need of promoting the dialogue, the comprehension, the interaction among all key actors (professionals and not) dealing with minor offenders; • There is the need of equipping family members with information, knowledge, skills and competences to prevent minors offending.
Specific objectives of focus group • There is the need of involving family members in order to let them get awareness and responsibility; • There is the need of allowing family members to catch the proper information, to give and to receive appropriate feedbacks; • There is the need of promoting the dialogue, the comprehension, the interaction among all key actors (professionals and not) dealing with minor offenders; • There is the need of equipping family members with information, knowledge, skills and competences to prevent minors offending; • To understand the expectations and the real requests of families to the institutions; to facilitate communication and creation of a relationship based on respect and reciprocal trust between people who are a part of intimate word of the minor and the social community in which family and minor live; • To stimulate on professionals of the services linked to juvenile world a less judgmental approach and more respectful and sensitive one about the delicate period of life which minor lives and about family difficulties.
Conclusions of the organised focus groups The family is no longer able to educate their children, because of the lack of sample from the adult world, by the parents themselves and by institutions. The messages that reach the young are wrong and morally harmful; messages of violence have become normality. The “culture of sacrifice” and the personal commitment are lost; to get what they want any means is permitted; the ephemeral values: money and profit. The goal is to HAVE MONEY, it doesn’t matter what the medium is. The institutions do not support young people and do not give them a chance. The parents spend few times with their children and didn’t speak enough with them. The large use of web influences the personality of the youth, producing a lack of face to face relation, the real one. The rules are transgressed, and consequently youngsters are not educated in “respect”. Youngsters lack respect for laws, values, traditions and individuals. The parents often charge the youngsters of their expectations and this causes them stress, responsibility they should not take. The youngsters stay in front of the PC and they do not have the possibility to express and their energy and aggressiveness. They need to blow off steam to escape the tension, they need to compete (importance of sports). The sense of community is nowadays missing and this does not facilitate the management of young people; lacking communication and relations amongst neighbors and citizens do not support any more parents with a system of sharing and comparison made by mutual agreement of the same rules.
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