| The Fund to combat child educational poverty, implemented by “WITH THE CHILDREN”, promotes “Bonds of freedom”, a call that finances innovative projects for the prevention and fight against pathological and behavioral addictions among adolescents (11-18 years), promoting their psycho-physical well-being and autonomy. The planned initiatives include community and integrated intervention models, universal and early prevention, parenting support, strengthening of the educational community and active participation of young people. The goal is to intercept signs of discomfort early, prevent the chronicity of risk behaviors, promote life skills and build cohesive territorial networks. The duration of the project must be between 36 e 48 months. Territory of intervention: The projects must be carried out exclusively in an Italian region, without actions distributed across multiple regions. Direct recipients: Adolescents aged between 11 e 18 years, residents or domiciled in the project intervention region. Priority to profiles with risk factors: family fragility, early signs of distress, vulnerability (disability, BES, NEET, migrants), fragile territorial contexts. Proposing subjects: Responsible party (Leader): • Third Sector organisation (D.lgs. 117/2017); •Consisting of at least 2 years; •Registered office in the region of intervention; •He can't have, with the financing body, more than two and ongoing projects. Mandatory partnership: •Minimo 3 subjects, of which at least one other ETS; •Schools allowed, public bodies, university, businesses (no profit come fine); •No partner can manage >50% of the contribution; •≥65% of resources are managed by ETS; •Each organization can submit only one proposal as a responsible entity. Additional requirements: Partnerships will be evaluated based on: •Previous experience in addiction prevention and working with adolescents; •Ability to involve territorial actors functional to the intervention (social and health services, schools, local authorities, law enforcement agencies, professional orders); •Rootedness in the territory and ability to activate integrated educational networks; •Heterogeneity and complementarity of professional and institutional profiles. Type of interventions: • Universal and early prevention: programs to enhance life skills, scientifically validated information on risky substances and behaviors, integrated school-community pathways; •Selective and indicated prevention: early detection actions with validated screening tools (AUDIT, CRAFT, test per gaming disorder), brief and motivational counseling, integrated care with local services (SerD, NPI, social services); •Support for parenting: information on risks and early signs of distress, mutual help groups between parents, valorisation of family rituals, involvement of extended figures; •Strengthening of the educational community: coordinated multidisciplinary teams (school, social and health services, Third Sector, local authorities), teacher training, school psychologist integration, low threshold listening desks, shared operating protocols; •Youthful protagonism: active involvement of adolescents in all project phases (needs analysis, co-planning, realization, assessment), valorisation of innovative expressive languages, public recognition of initiatives created by young people; •Inclusion and accessibility: reasonable adaptations and personalization of interventions for adolescents with disabilities or Special Educational Needs (BES); •Counteract of gender violence: promotion of healthy emotional relationships, equal and respectful, Beware of cyberbullying and revenge porn; •Crisis management: operational protocols for emergency situations (suicidal ideation, intoxications, self-harm) with connection to local services; •Protection of operators: burn-out prevention, regular supervision, continuous training, peer support groups; •Child safeguarding e privacy: policy to prevent abuse, mistreatment or exploitation; protection of the confidentiality of the adolescents involved, balanced with obligation to report in case of serious risk. Eligible expenses: •Staff costs: salaries, contributions and charges for human resources directly employed in project activities; •Costs for project activities: expenses for carrying out prevention interventions (training, peer education, outreach, counseling, screening, parent training, sporting/cultural/artistic activities, ecc.); •Costs for services and consultancy: external professional services functional to the project (trainers, experts, evaluators, communicators, psychologists, mediators, ecc.); •Costs for goods and materials: purchase of equipment, teaching tools, consumables strictly related to project activities; •Ongoing monitoring and evaluation costs: data collection costs, analysis of the results, intermediate and final reporting; •Impact evaluation: mandatory entry equal to 4% of the requested contribution, to be allocated to the organization selected by Con i bambini; •Communication and dissemination costs: expenses for disseminating the results, production of information materials, public events (excluding the creation of new websites); •Child safeguarding policy: quota of up to 1% of costs dedicated to CSP support provided by an organization selected by Con i bambini; •Indirect costs: flat rates per 10% of the requested contribution, to cover general coordination and administrative management costs; •Redevelopment/renovation interventions: allowed only if functional to the project and to an extent not exceeding 30% of the requested contribution; for interventions ≥ € 50.000 Technical and economic feasibility project is required; •Cofinanziamento: monetary share equal to at least 10% of the total cost of the project, covered by own or partner resources (Enhancements of real estate are not permitted, furniture or volunteering); Ineligible expenses: disbursements of financial contributions to other projects; invoices between partners; expenses of non-partnered entities; ordinary management costs (utilities, stationery, rents); design costs; creation of new websites; financial charges, bank commissions, depreciation; costs without monetary outlay (valorisation of volunteering, real estate); flat-rate or self-certified expenses; purchase/construction of real estate infrastructure; renovations exceeding the 30%; transversal costs not directly attributable (rents, onerous loans, utilities, ordinary maintenance). Resources available: € 10 millions , assigned based on the quality of the proposals received. Breakdown by macro-geographical areas: Nord (Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino-Alto Adige, Aosta Valley, Veneto): € 3.652.000; Center (Abruzzo, Lazio, Marche, Molise, Tuscany, Umbria): € 1.603.000; South and Islands (Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily): € 4.745.000; Contribution required by project: between € 250.000 e € 800.000. • Mandatory co-financing: monetary share equal to at least 10% of the total cost of the project (Enhancements of real estate are not permitted, furniture or volunteering); •Indirect costs: flat rates per 10% of the requested contribution, to cover general coordination and administrative management costs; •Impact evaluation: mandatory entry equal to 4% of the requested contribution, to be allocated to the organization selected by Con i bambini; •Child safeguarding policy: quota of up to 1% of costs dedicated to CSP support provided by an organization selected by Con i bambini; •Redevelopment/renovation interventions: allowed only if functional to the project and to an extent not exceeding 30% of the requested contribution; for interventions ≥ € 50.000 Technical and economic feasibility project is required. |
