Youth Care Platform conference
Accelerate to independence: 'After Care Guarantee' in Youth Care
This meeting was the closing conference of the 'After Care Gurantee Project'.
Rationale
Young
people from residential care facilities often lack a strong family or social
network to fall back on. Studies show a considerable number of homeless people have
spent time in a youth care institution. They remain faced with ‘structural
homelessness’ and unemployment. More often than not the roots to these lifelong
challenges lie in ineffective guidance in the transition from youth care to
young adulthood. For many vulnerable youngsters the gap after youth care is
just too big. There
is a strong need for after care
mechanisms.
Content
During the
conference, we will present an after care guarantee model and policy recommendations
in order to involve and increase awareness at all levels (from policy to youth
work and young people themselves). These recommendations will be activated by
hearing the youngsters and their accompanying staff. Regional ministers and
administrations will reflect on future after care strategies and policies and a
representative of the European Commission will share the perspective of the
Commission on social protection and after care. To conclude the day, we will
discuss the importance of prevention and an integrated collaboration of
different sectors in after care mechanisms, based on the experiences of the
Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and the Homeless Hub.
Venue:
Flemish Agency for Youth Welfare
Ellips Building, Koning Albert II-laan 35, 1030 Brussels
Invitation: see below.
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