“Tra Zenit e Nadir” is a project financed by Fondazione con i Bambini with the aim of experimenting in Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino a new model of intervention within the area of restorative justice. The goal is to enable the skills of minors and new offenders by actively involving the territory in the different phases of the reparative process. Together with the Arimo cooperative (project partner) we experimented the “Open Day Center” (Centro Diurno Diffuso in Italian), an innovative community based model of foster care that integrates youth worker knowledge and competences, the youngsters responsability to activiley participate in the reintegration process and the educational, civic and cultural role and opportunities coming from the community in order to improve the wellbeing of the minor in his relations with the “real world”.