Progetto Persona: Youth Support & Counseling Services

2. Association Progetto Persona has been engaged in the prevention and care of Youth Uneasiness and in the promotion and enhancement of the Individual since 1996.

3. Two distinct fields of intervention: Youth Uneasiness and the uneasiness of all the adults related with the youth – parents, teachers etc.

4. Activities Counselling and psychological individual support for the youth; Educational Paths for Youth Group; Short- time interventions, addressed to the youth’s uneasiness and misbehaviour – usually pointed out by teachers and/or parents - in schools of various grade and order;

5. Activities Classroom active presence; Daily presence at home, addressed to children with distressful family situations; Group Baby-sitting services, during evening Training; Meetings for parents; Counselling Point “Guess who’s talking” to offer active listening and a qualified counselling service;

6. (Adult’s) Activities Psychological support and counselling, held by psychologists and voluntary operators – for parents; Short cycles of informative-training meetings within kindergarten, primary and secondary schools; Counselling Point “ I’m in it, too!”, at some Local authority Board in province of Treviso;

7. Volunteers’ Lifelong Training All voluntary members of AssociazioneProgetto Persona have been actively involved (any 15 days) in a personal lifelong training and learning path, addressed both at their being volunteers and at their being individuals

8. Territorial diffusion The Association has been gradually and steadily integrating within different provincial local realities, creating a net of collaborations and links with a number of Local School Boards, single schools of different grade, Local Authorities, parishes and, above all, a great deal of families

9. Agreements and Partnerships Since 2002 the Association has been on an operative partnership with O.F.B - Onlus Francesco Brancaleone, in Naples; Since 2003 the Association has been a chosen centre for pre-/post-training practice for students from Padua University; Since 2006 the Association is strictly collaborating with Paradoxa Centre in Treviso;

10. Framework of Reference Existential Analysis; Costructivism and Social Constructionism; Symbolic Interactivism; G. Kelly, P. Watzlawick, E. Goffman, J. Bruner e K. Gergen;