CarINg aims at helping girls and boys in the alternative care system
become protagonists of their own future by making them feel part of a welcoming community
CarINg is a European action-research project that supports boys and girls leaving the alternative care system (care leavers) in realising their life project:
• It focuses on care leavers, involving them in all phases of the project and supporting them during the process of preparing for independence.
• It provides tailor-made training for social service professionals and stimulates the community to network around the needs and aspirations of carer leavers.
ACTION-RESEARCH
Action-research will provide recommendations on how to improve policies for care leavers with a special focus on preparing, facilitating and accompanying young people during and after the process of leaving the care system.
TRAINING
The project provides tailor-made training for professionals in protection systems focusing on the importance of listening to care leavers and their right to participate
200
Care leavers and future care leavers
80
Professionals of the alternative care system
50
Families
32
Local Authorities
The project
CarINg adopts an ecosystemic approach that brings together care leavers, social service professionals and local actors to create an integrated local model based on the Capabilities Approach.
The project follows 3 directions :
• it involves care leavers in a participatory research.
• it involves social workers in training sessions to support care leavers in transition to adulthood.
• it involves local actors to create opportunities for the autonomy of care leavers.
The action-research will provide recommendations on how to improve territorial policies that enable care leavers to shape and pursue their own life project.
Main objectives
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Main objective 1
To train and raise the awareness of all the actors in the community in order to guarantee that care leavers are listened to and that they have the right to participate in the decision-making process that affects them.
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Main Objective 2
To improve the quality of support and protecting the rights of children living in protection systems, with a focus on preparation, facilitation and accompaniment during and after the process of leaving the system.
News about the project
Workshops for autonomy: series of meetings for care leavers
What does it take to be independent? With this question in mind, the working group of the CarINg project, led by the…
Controluce – a documentary on care leavers experiences
One step away from independence, eager to test themselves and at the same time looking for points of reference, a group of…
Sine Die: portraits and stories of care leavers in foster care
In Italy, there are almost fifteen thousand minors living in foster care - with single foster parents, families or relatives. Fostering is…
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The project CarINg is co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union