Her real training can be scary: she specializes in general criminology. So Mélanie Hodge prefers to define herself as a delinquency and social reintegration worker. Its daily job is not to establish a profile of criminals for investigators but to analyze crime and above all to determine its causes. And it goes even further since it seeks to reduce these risky behaviors.
Mélanie began her professional career in Canada where she also studied. “I worked in social reintegration assistance”, she confides. After a few years, she wanted to "bring her skills to Saint-Martin". "A way for [her] to bring [her] stone to the building". She was first recruited by the Collectivity and then by the Prefecture to participate in missions and / or in the development of public policies to fight against delinquency. Motivated by the desire to invest more, she decided to work on her own. And to focus on parents and not just young people.
“The family is the first lever of socialization for the individual. From an early age, the individual seeks a place of belonging, and it must be found within the family. The family is a protective factor. This protective factor must be strong enough to mitigate the others who are at risk, ”explains Mélanie. And if a young person does not find these landmarks, these bonds of belonging within his family, he will look for them elsewhere, often in the street by joining a group, or even a gang.
From her experience, Mélanie was able to observe that parenthood and parental behavior are risk factors for delinquency. She recognizes that being a parent is complicated, even more so in a difficult social environment.
Through her business, Mélanie wishes to give parents "the tools so that they can fulfill themselves as parents". She does not seek to raise morale, to give lessons but to support parents who are having difficulties. "We must not feel guilty, we must absolutely defuse this feeling," she says. Mélanie thus offers parenting support workshops, whether in individual or group interviews. “Everyone advances at their own pace, we repeat things as many times as necessary. We must empower individuals to act, ”she said.
She also wants to help single, isolated women and mothers to believe in herself, to be like her a “Positively-Mom”. And to share this definition of "parenthood: helping shade the minds of the future while trying not to lose your own." " (soualigapost.com)
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