FENICE is a social cooperative (no profit) with head office in Palermo. Since 1996 it manages a series of projects addressed to young people (aged between 1 and 25 years old); young people with several kind of disadvantages and facing socio-economic problems.

The focus of the numerous projects managed by FENICE, usually in partnership with public and private companies, from one hand regard the non formal education methods, from the other hand try to support young people attending schools in facing with their social problems. In this way, FENICE, works where school can’t arrive. In the Italian Education system is not easy to find public school with support system created for young people and aimed at help them during their school life (for ex: support systems able to help students with economic problems, or with drug problems, or victims of physical/sexual abuses). School, and in particular Teachers, can only assess the real presence of such problems, but can’t really support the young people concerned by using school tools (material and/or financial ones). In order to fill this gap, organisations such FENICE, manage numerous projects able to support young people at school but also outside school. For this reason, for our work is important the link with Public Schools of our region, and for the same reason in the EMYA project we have invited a public school to become partner in order to work together to reach the project final results.

Apart from the projects before named, we FENICE carry out training activities in favour of unemployed young people; moreover, our vocation courses aimed at updating the personal skills of people interested in become a manager of social problems of young people and/or children.

The Liceo Meli of Palermo, our public school partner, is a school of classic studies, where, apart from the ordinary education tools, regarding the support provided to young people needs, it is possible to note that some teachers of the school received the task to carry out psychological support addressed to young students, or sexual consultancy again addressed to students. Other kind of consultancy have been assigned to Meli’s Teachers, but it’s clear that a teacher (alone and with their ordinary task of teacher) can’t follow an entire schools by providing a correct and in time consultancy.