After Us. Development and innovation in the discharge process from the protection paths of disadvantaged adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

After Us. Development and innovation in the discharge process from the protection paths of disadvantaged adults

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project has achieved the objective of the Erasmus Plus Program 2017, social inclusion, acting on the existing procedures and practices, within the systems of protection and discharge of subjects who have been removed from their family of origin by court order and, who have been taken care of by the assignee care facilities. Through meetings with experts, seminars, study visits and international research based on interviews with care leavers and caregivers, we have developed the “Guidelines for the processes of accompaniment to adult life of young people in foster care situations” and the “Guidelines on the methodology of the Human Project applied to subjects who have experienced forced family separation”. These are useful tools, in the daily work of educators, in order to support fragile people in the development and systematization of the process of emotional/relational, housing and work autonomy. The direct beneficiaries of the project activity have been mainly adults, the “caregivers” as a whole, or those who have come into contact with the person who has left the protection process. At the local level, the project saw the involvement of trainers, social workers, volunteers from organizations, psychologists, psychotherapists but also representatives of local institutions, social services and judges from the Juvenile Court. In addition, the project has had as indirect beneficiaries the careleavers, who, through modification and innovation of the practices in use, will benefit from a system of protection and, in particular, of discharge, more structured and agile as possible, so that after the end of the period of foster care at the facilities to which they have been assigned, they will be able to take advantage of a path that allows them to be included in their own social context from the point of view of housing, work and relationships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 372450 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Consulta Diocesana per le attività in favore dei minori e delle famiglie ONLUS & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Congrégation de Notre Dame de Charité du Bon Pasteur
• Congregación Hijos de María Inmaculada – Pavonianos – Albacete
• Fundatia de Voluntari Somaschi