Unemployment and Job policies in Turin. Our service, your idea!

Training Day : 3 Focus Groups 15,22,29 September Mornings with unemployed service users (job service)

Training Day : Agenda AM - opening European Project Presentation Job policies, evaluation of public services and citizens participation Focus Groups: unemployed people needs and motivations

Training Day : Agenda European partners best practices on civic engagement Group discussion on italian practices about theme «unemployment and participation» (web portal in Italian cities) / questionnaire / conclusions

Training Day : Agenda End of Project: Results report and dissemination to all stakeholder Publicizing of the initiative: website; social net.; poster attached on CSAL’s job service space

Results Training Day 22 participants: -8 Foreigners -3 disadvantaged people -17 Male; 5 Female

Group discussion on italian practices about theme «unemployment and participation» What Needs (unemployed people)? On job services: Places of listening,dialogue. To find useful informations on job research Attention and support to personalised runs

What it Misses (in Local job services)? -Skilled and qualified clerks -Broker on language for foreigners -Help on web tools to search job -Humanity and sensibility

«Unemployment and Participation» What it Misses? -No spaces of protest /organization of the social uneasiness -Collective ways that admits the proposals -Groups which to share resources, opportunity, information

What’s problem in italian civic participation? Vertical culture in welfare services : (exception in drugs services or psychiatry with peer educators). Automatically it misses in the people a thought about collective solutions Vertical culture in services it produces inequality and it not favors participation or collective protest. Some processes of self-organization among equal people, they are favorite in spaces where we observe equal relationship and bonds of trust in the communities (Examples brought in Preparatory Desk research: Centers of Proximity; Social Street, Cohousing…).