Reconnect: Empowering Teachers and Students to Support Hikikomori Reintegration

<< Objectives >>RECONNECT aims at improving the competences of teachers and other school professionals to better support the social and school reintegration of hikikomori and adolescents at risk of social withdrawal (final beneficiaries), thus preventing their early school leaving. This will be achieved through specialized training, targeted and gamified tools and the involvement of peer adolescents to support the reintegration process, fostering a more inclusive and supportive school environment.<< Implementation >>RECONNECT consortium will elaborate: Teacher and Peer Adolescents Training Curriculums (WP2), an online game (WP3) and a Community Voice Station (WP4): a collection of resources tailored to the needs of teachers and adolescents to address hikikomori syndrome. Through an EU training event, local trainings with 60 teachers, workshops with 60 adolescents and the online game with 60 hikikomori, resources will be tested and then shared with 400 stakeholders through dissemination activities (WP5).<< Results >>- TEACHER TRAINING CURRICULUM- PEER ADOLESCENTS TRAINING CURRICULUM- ONLINE GAME FOR SUPPORT THE HIKIKOMORI RE-INTEGRATION- COMMUNITY VOICE STATION TO CONNECT ALL TARGET GROUPS AND STAKEHOLDERSOther Outcomes:- Teachers’ improved skills on addressing hikikomori syndrome- Hikikomori students’ improved mental health - Positive school climate - Young people and families’ awareness on hikikomori syndrome- Connection of all target groups at EU level