We are in the final phase of the project BYMBE – Bringing Young Mothers Back to Education, aimed at motivating and supporting young NEET mothers to re-enter education and training.
The project partners met for the last meeting in Innsbruck on 11 and 12 July 2019 to discuss the results of piloting activities for young mothers in Austria, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania and Spain and to finalize the resources for counsellors, social workers and educators working with young mothers:
- The Report on National Education and Support Services for Young mothers provides information on education and childcare systems in the project partner countries. For those interested in having information on the situation in Italy, the National Report developed by CESIE is available in our Digital Library.
- The Handbook for Outreach Awareness & Motivation Strategies is aimed at anyone who wants to understand how to build a motivational and awareness campaign. The Handbook also illustrates the activities of the BYMBE campaign.
- The Set of Intervention Methods to Involve Young NEET Mothers presents the main approaches to supporting young mothers.
- The BYMBE Orientation Pack contains several guidance and training activities designed to help young mothers find their own educational and professional path.
- The BYMBE Empowerment Pack presents training activities focused on self-awareness and understanding and managing emotions and attitudes in interacting with people and the surrounding social context.
- The BYMBE Support Pack deals with situations and crisis that can demotivate young mothers and generate doubts in them about returning to the educational path.
The final events of the project in the partner countries are already being organized. The final events are intended to present the work done by the BYMBE project but also to stimulate reflection and action on the dynamics and challenges faced by young mothers to remain or return to the educational and training path.
In two years of the project it was realized that young and adult mothers in Italy have little support in resuming their studies, especially when the decision to leave the school is made or took place during secondary education of first and second degree.
Obtaining information, accessing home education during pregnancy and continuing secondary education as an adult is not easy, especially when young mothers lack support from families, social services and support agencies.
For more information about the project, please contact alessia.valenti@cesie.org
About BYMBE
BYMBE – Bringing Young Mothers Back to Education is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme – Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for adult education aimed at developing support measures for young mothers who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) for them to get back to education and training and improve their chances in entering the labour market.
Discover the tools and handbooks BYMBE offers to social workers, teachers and trainers to develop their professional skills and provide guidance and support services adapted to the needs of young NEET mothers.
Partners
The partnership holds together 6 European organisations:
- Frauen im Brennpunkt (Austria, coordinator);
- Bimec (Bulgaria);
- EHI – Exchange House Ireland (Ireland);
- Social Innovation Fund (Lithuania);
- Magenta Consultoría Projects S.L.U. (Spain);
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information
Visit bymbe.eu.
Contact Alessia Valenti – alessia.valenti@cesie.org – Tel. +390916164224.
