Psycho-social mentoring for young girls

The initiative of the Catalonia Region entails psycho-social mentoring for young girls migrating alone. The target group, identified as the most vulnerable within the already vulnerable unaccompanied foreign minors, will include 15-20 girls living in the Catalonia Region, who can suffer from forced marriages, gender-based violence, sexual abuse, prostitution. The activities will build mentoring relationship between young girls and female university students so as to:  

• promote a psychosocial guidance among young women with special attention to the empowerment process and the prevention of violence against them;  
• facilitate their interpersonal relationship during the mentoring process.  

This will also be done by encouraging:  

• language practice and building of a social network to develop their personal project;  
• boosting their social network thanks to the mentors;  
• identification of possible academic and professional pathways;  
• empowering the girls to prevent gender-based violence.  

The mentors will be properly trained and also supported by a psychologist. The activities envisage: weekly meetings, support to the social public system who follows the young migrants, organization of workshops for capacity building.