Subsequent care - funding for previously placed young people

This report is a mid-term evaluation of ten municipal trials of subsequent care, paid for by the public pool of funds earmarked for disadvantaged groups in 2007 as part of the government’s action programme “Equal Opportunities”.
The main object of subsequent care is to prepare young people placed outside their home to stand on their own feet. The trials are already having a positive impact on the young people in the projects. At the same time, the report concludes that flexible subsequent-care initiatives are necessary, as previously placed young people struggle with multiple problems with anything from low education/training and poor support from their family to loneliness, mental disorders and crime. The trial projects have particularly good experience with offering young people permanent adult support in the form of contact-person schemes. However, young people themselves point to the importance of being able to meet and exchange experience with other young people who have been placed outside the home. This is possible in some of the projects, through establishment of drop-in centres and offers of various joint activities.
The report has been commissioned and financed by the Ministry of Social Affairs.