Accompanying the Careleavers in a path of Autonomy Resilience and Empowerment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Accompanying the Careleavers in a path of Autonomy Resilience and Empowerment

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers

Project Summary

The CARE project – Accompanying the Careleavers in a path of Autonomy, Resilience and Empowerment, is born from the need gained over the years of experience in the field to realize a specific training aimed at university students of the faculties of humanities, which can be a value added to work with minors in view of their exit from the reception paths. In the needs analysis phase implemented thanks to the CHILD.FOR.CHILD project coordinated by the 3P Cooperative and funded by the EU REC program, the implementation of a guide figure and support to the autonomy of the young people who, after having lived part of their adolescence in reception facilities or foster families, they find themselves having to face entry into adult life “alone” and most of the time without the tools necessary to cope with these new changes. This even more if we consider that in Italy, the boys who live within their families of origin, at the age of eighteen, are certainly not ready for an independent life. For this reason it is important to train professionals to guide young people on a path of autonomy, resilience and empowermnent, which starts from their entry into the reception structures or foster family, and continues even after their exit, as points of reference for the guys out who don’t have a family that can support them or that isn’t adequate for that.
The project involves the construction of 5 Intellectual Outputs:
IO1: literature review of the models applied to the autonomy pathways in residential care for minors outside the family
IO2: Comparative study and analysis of intervention models for the promotion of careleavers autonomy.
IO3: creation of a tool that allows the analysis of the history and models of autonomy of the children received in the community and to identify protective and risk factors, in order to elaborate a personalized autonomy project.
IO4: Implementation of a toolkit for the construction of pathways of autonomy resilience and empowerment
IO5: Joint curriculum for the training of an expert on the subject of promoting autonomy
Following are the expected results:
1. Training specific figures for the implementation of individualized autonomy paths of minors in communities / careleavers
2. Increase awareness of the phenomenon
3. Raising awareness of the governance for the implementation of policies aimed at careleavers and focusing above all on paths of autonomy
4. Implement operational tools for the implementation of training courses and their evaluation
5. Acquisition of new skills
6. Joint curriculum thanks to the implementation of an intensive study program (ISP)
for careleavers:
7. Greater social inclusion
8. Decreased deviance and / or alcohol and substance abuse
9. Increased the possibility for the new adult to undertake more lasting training courses
10. Increased the possibility for the new age to enter the world of work
3 Multiplier Events will also be realized for the dissemination of the results achieved: the first in Spain, the second in Romania, the third in Italy
The CARE project participants are distributed as follows:
1. researchers and specialized operators, as regards the study and implementation of the first intellectual output-30
2. University professors and trainers regarding the structuring of the training modules and their implementation-10
3. Political administrators, managers and managers of social services, reception and protection of minors, referents of guidance and employment centers, managers of residential structures, educators of residential units, judges of the juvenile court, foster families who in how much stakeholder will be involved in the various project phases, higher education teachers-300
4. Students and graduates from the universities involved (attending the short cycle, first, second or third cycle), and graduate professionals working at the involved partners and / or in other reception facilities. In the latter case, they must have a degree in one of the disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, educational sciences-200
5. Minors in reception facilities and adults over the protection system-250

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 374310 Eur

Project Coordinator

3P (PADRE PINO PUGLISI) SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CONSORZIO TARTARUGA
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI
• SORANGELI TRANS SRL
• Asociación Claver
• FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD LOYOLA ANDALUCIA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO