The situation faced by unaccompanied minors throughout Europe is a growing concern for a great number of NGOs working with and for children. In this precise case, the Net for U project aims at improving the integration of unaccompanied foreign minors. To this extent, the diverse partners involved in this project are determined to define an effective multidimensional intervention Program.
The latter relies on the achievement of several objectives, which are the following: the elaboration of a knowledge-based intervention model to improve helpful practices both of ongoing special assessment and of family tracing procedures; the development and fostering of appropriate opportunities of training and education, of social and leisure activities, and of an active participation in cultural life for the children concerned; the creation of a permanent transnational cooperation within professionals, stakeholders, social workers and all other figures who work and are dedicated to the rights and well-being of unaccompanied foreign minors.
These objectives will concretely take the form of several outputs such as a Toolkit detailing the special procedures linked to assessment and family tracing; an Intervention Manual to help professionals create individualized programmes for the concerned minors; and Guidelines, which will act as the founding document of a permanent network (NET FORUm) fostering a cooperative strategy between organisations and stakeholders working at a local, national and international level.
Overall objective: The Net for U program aims at making up for the lack of information, training and guidelines when it comes to unaccompanied foreign minors. To this extent, it should assess the existing inspiring practices developed and / or implemented at a European level, which should led to the drafting of a common action framework for professionals, to the elaboration of a permanent network of experts and to the broad dissemination of this project’s findings at both a local and European level through courses, workshops and exchange events.
Objectives:
- Improving the integration of unaccompanied foreign minors
- Facilitating the assessment and family tracing of the aforementioned children
- Assisting professionals in creating targeted programmes for unaccompanied foreign minors
- Fostering the creation of a network of professionals dedicated to defend and ensure the rights and well-being of unaccompanied foreign minors
- Elaboration of a knowledge-based intervention model to improve helpful practices both of ongoing special assessment and of family tracing procedures
- Development and fostering of appropriate opportunities of training and education, of social and leisure activities, and of an active participation in cultural life for the children concerned
- Creation of a permanent transnational cooperation within professionals, stakeholders, social workers and all other figures who work and are dedicated to the rights and well-being of unaccompanied foreign minors
Istituto don Calabria (Italy) - Applicant
Istituto Psicoanalitico per le Ricerche Sociali (Italy)
The Smile of the Child Association (Greece)
Christian Association of Youth Villages (Germany)
Pupil Parent Partnership (United Kingdom)
Fundacion Diagrama Intervention Psicosocial (Spain)
Association Diagrama Intervention Psychosociale (France)
International Juvenile Justice Observatory (Belgium)
Cooperation: Synergia (Italy)