In collaboration with City of Ghent we, together with the actors, are examining the cooperation between youth welfare work, youth assistance and education (bridge figures, pupil guidance, ...) with vulnerable young people between 15 and 25 years old.
Artevelde University College works with Finnish and Swedish partners to increase labor market opportunities and reduce dropout rates among young people with a migration background.
In order to stimulate gender-conscious thinking and action in school teams, teams within the care of babies and toddlers, and out-of-school care, we are developing a support trajectory for care workers and teachers/school teams as part of this two-year project.
This project aims to offer schools a tool that should improve the cooperation between formal education and youth care, welfare. During the research process, special attention is given to active involvement of parents and pupils.
Through qualitative case studies, we learned more about the perspective of adolescents, parents and professionals in the Flemish youth care system. Adolescents and their parents had many recommendations to the youth care system. They encourage professionals to invest in good level quality youthcare in acting, not just in words. They ask youthcare to be more strenght- and demand-oriented and to have more participation in decisionmaking.