Bobby’s Dream RFK Human Rights Italia
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It’s critical to support the most vulnerable migrants through a structured hand-tohand integration process CONTEXT AND
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Migration in Fragility
3 major categories REGULAR IMMIGRANTS ~5,3M
• Regular migrants in conditions of economic or legal precarity
IRREGULAR • IMMIGRANTS IN RECEPTION ~0,1M
Migrants in reception who arrive illegally and apply for political asylum
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Social inclusion limits
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Migrants' extreme conditions
Very strict economic migration planning measures
Migrants arrive in conditions of extreme need
Irregular migrants - Black
It is essential to intervene quickly on the main areas of need
market, exploitation, and exploitative labor practices
Regular migrants - The IRREGULAR • IMMIGRANTS ~0,4M
Migrants whose residence permit has expired
reasons for social exclusion can be of various types as cultural or religious
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Several activities are to be carried out in different phases of integration for fragile immigrants: from understanding the initiative to measuring social impact CONTEXT AND
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Involvement in the initiative • Network creation with reception facilities • Collection of spontaneous applications for social inclusion initiative • Communication and dissemination strategy development
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Screening
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Gap filling
• Evaluation of the legal and documentary status
• Support for bureaucratic and fiscal processes
• Evaluation of food, accommodation, and mobility conditions
• Complementary services:
• Competency assessment with training purpose – Speaking language – Labor formation – Civic education
BACKUP
– Social housing – Healthcare assistance – Mobility
• Linguistic, behavioral, and professional training:
Integration • Maximizing employment opportunities through networking and company scouting • Creating synergies with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects of companies • Job profiles definition
– Standard packs
Post integration • Integration monitoring • Social impact measurement • Support in bureaucratic procedures for contract renewal / residence permit
• Support in the acceptance of the asylum application by the employer
– Individual support
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RFK Human Rights Italia focuses on integration and is grounded on Five operating principles that constitute the guidelines for its activities in defense of human rights FOCUS
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Migrants and people in vulnerability involvement in the operative group of work to gain concrete suggestions about their needs
Gender balance in job allocation
Human rights education and cultural inclusion
Inclusion through soft skills as relational/ emotional education
Guarantee a living wage to ensure autonomy DBS
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RFK Human Rights Italia benefits from a structured operating model for each operational phase of its projects W AY
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RFK Human Rights Italia operating model ONLUS SOCIO-WORK SUPPORT INITIATIVES 1 2
PROJECT DEFINITION
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PROJECT STRUCTURE
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DELIVERY
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Analysis of needs and scenarios on the territory Projects design Partner selection Budget definition Collecting sponsors
Call for selection of participants Selection of participants
Courses delivery Apprenticeship delivery Final exam
Participants interviews and storytelling
Certificates delivery Job placement support Interviews with employers 3, 6, 12 months after placement
Individual monitoring DBS
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RFK Human Rights Italia has completed 2 main pilot initiatives to support social integration and professional trainings with the support of selected project sponsors FOCUS
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Via Bobby's Dream program for social and labor inclusion, RFK Human Rights Italia is committed to contrast, with dedicated projects, the phenomenon of socio-economic inequality that significantly affects specific fragile categories of the population RFK Human Rights Italia focus
Professional training project A
Professional training project
Project ASA Ausiliario Socio Assistenziale
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Project FiloLab
Pilot class of technical training for ASA (SocioAssistance Auxiliaries) and soft skills reinforcement
Embroidery course for haute couture training and personal soft skills reinforcement
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Florence
Social support and integration project
Sistema di Accoglienza e Integrazione (SAI) Comune di Fabbriche di Vergemoli Social project dedicated to asylum seekers with cultural boundaries, focusing on psychological, career guidance, language support DBS
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The 2 main initiatives have registered encouraging results in terms of attendance, certifications achieved by participants and subsequent job offering FOCUS
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The initiatives undertaken by RFK Human Rights Italy have been appreciated and proved useful for the participants. The foundation has been able to actively collaborate with both sponsors and operating partners, successfully providing the best possible learning and supporting experiences
KEY PROJECT’S RESULTS
Project ASA Ausiliario Socio Assistenziale
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Project FiloLab
800 hours
46 hours
396 hours
94 hours
Hard skills technical courses and apprenticeship
Soft skills courses as human rights
Hard skills technical courses and apprenticeship
Soft skills courses as human rights
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8 out of 10 students attended the final exam (2 students will attend it in June 2024)
100%
All students have successfully passed the final exam
63%
5 out of 8 students have been already offered a work contract
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5 out of 8 students have been offered a work contract
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All 8 students have successfully passed the exam
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Course usefulness NPS expressed by students DBS
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The initiatives carried out by RFK Human Rights Italia were very successful among the participants, who considered them as fundamental experiences for their lives FOCUS
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“FiloLab project allowed me to learn advanced sewing and embroidery techniques, also giving me the opportunity to be hired by a company that collaborates with the main Italian fashion brands. I am now using the acquired skills to create the wedding dress of my soon-to-be-married daughter ” Magliane, FiloLab project partecipant
“During the months spent with the RFK Human Rights Italia foundation I improved my Italian and English, in fact now I no longer feel uncomfortable undertaking a conversation in both languages." Olga, FiloLab project partecipant
“The quality of education and training that I have received during the ASA project, gave me the opportunity to quickly find a job after finishing the exams, and for this I will always be grateful to RFK Human Rights Italia" Prince, Project ASA partecipant
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Going forward, the foundation will focus on creating a long-lasting sustainable path, keeping people at the core and consolidating its positioning to increase its reach W AY
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DISCUSSION
K E Y S T R AT E G I C P I L L A R S
RFK Human Rights Italia Vision
We carry forward the moral legacy of Senator Robert F. Kennedy to fulfill his dream of a more just and peaceful world
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People-centric integration
Geographical consolidation and sponsor support
Sustainable longlasting operating model
RFK Human Rights Italia Mission Growing together, promoting the integral human development of every citizen of the world, so that everyone acquires the awareness to inhabit the world sustainably
Bobby’s Dream promotes inclusive labor market models to combat socioeconomic inequality
• Set clear project guidelines
• Build long-lasting collaborations
• Empower course participants
• Consolidate geographical presence
• Leverage participants’ ‘Word of mouth’
• Consolidate ownership of initiatives • Structure an evaluation process • Evaluate options for providing commercial training services
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The focus of RFK Human Rights Italia will continue to be on socio-cultural humanrights initiatives, while facilitating the provision of professional training initiatives W AY
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Results-driven evaluation of initiatives leads to a consolidation of sectorial focus in line with previous projects streams, replicating Filolab and creating a new format for welfare auxiliaries, more oriented on family care
Future initiatives
Social support and integration project
Professional training projects Project FiloLab II
RFK Human Rights Italia will continue to provide cultural integration courses and human rights education, leveraging on its distinctive know-how, ensuring immigrants and people in a state of vulnerability have access to the tools they need to be successfully integrated in the workforce and in the society
Second edition of the embroidery course for haute couture at the spaces of its RFK Human Rights Italia International House of Human Rights in Florence
Training room for domestic helpers and family support Objective of training for inclusion in families or accommodation facilities that need support figures in the management of children and elderly people
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The solid values of the Foundation will continue guiding the work towards shaping a bright future for immigrants and turn integration initiatives into success stories W AY
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We are realizing that it is not enough to give a man food, clothes, shelter, work, we are realizing that the important thing is instead to help the man help himself Robert F. Kennedy
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FiloLab participants testimonials W AY
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