Preventing youth homelessness in rural areas The case of North Rine-Westfalia Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe: key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness 8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic Alexander Sbosny
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Preventing youth homelessness in rural areas : the case of Northrhine-Westfalia
Presentation given by Alexander Sbosny, StadtRaumKonzept (DE) at the 2013 FEANTSA conference, "Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation: policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness" http://feantsa.org/spip.php?article1596&lang=en
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Preventing youth homelessness
in rural areas
The case of North Rine-Westfalia
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
The state programme in NRW
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
established in 1996 to support
communities and non-communal
institutions of the welfare sector
(co-payment 20%)
exemplary instead of structural
funding with a focus on the
prevention of homelessness (total
volume per year ~ 1.1 million €)
premises: innovation, orientation on
social environment, transferability
(funding period max. 3 years)
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
The project WohnPerspektiven
duration: 02/2010 - 02/2013
target group: young homeless people
and those threatened with
homelessness (aged between 15-27)
aims: survey youth homelessness in
3 rural areas, develop and test
different kinds of help
resources: additional employees for
the participating institutions, project
management, scientific supervision
and evaluation
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
The project WohnPerspektiven
survey
interviews with key players
of the support system and
homeless people to learn
about youth homelessness
conferences to activate the
dialogue between the
different institutions of the
support system
public relations
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Findings about the target group
youth homelessness in
rural areas is an invisible
phenomenon, no data
concerning the quantitative
dimension exists
multiple problems underlie
housing insecurity,
permanent conflicts with
parents / partners as main
triggers
clients and support system
do not match!
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Findings about the target group
everyday life
family/ friends
range of movement
5 kilometres
changing housing situations
in a small radius
clients often search for
private solutions beyond
the institutional support
system, especially with the
help of friends and family
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Findings about the help system
wide range of community
facilities and social
institutions in most rural
parts of NRW as well
no specific support system
for the target group
surrounding support system
(e.g. Debtor Consulting
Agency, Counselling Centre
for Drug Addicts) is
overstrained with youth
homelessness
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Findings about the help system
“marshalling-yard”: shifting
the responsibility for young
homeless people in rural
areas
on average 8 „false helps“
are necessary to get the
„right help“ in the Housing
Emergency Support
approach 1:
Preventing youth
homelessness in rural areas
needs all local expertise and
personal resources!
instrument: navigation aid
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Results of WohnPerspektiven
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Results of WohnPerspektiven
approach 2:
Preventing youth
homelessness in rural areas
needs explicit competences
and responsibilities!
instrument: case
conferences
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Results of WohnPerspektiven
approach 3:
Preventing youth homelessness in rural
areas needs a dialogue between the
Housing Emergency Support and the
Educational System!
instruments: study guide and
collaborative teaching units
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
Results of WohnPerspektiven
general:
networking is the missing
link between clients and
support system
dialogue between the
different stakeholders of
social welfare has to
become a routine
benefit: less excessive
demand and acceptable
solutions
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
We achieved a lot..
Results and findings of WohnPerpektiven were transferred across
the state and to stakeholders.
In some regions the co-operative model of preventing youth
homelessness is working steadily.
North Rhine-Westfalia is still operating its yearly statistics on
homelessness and focuses regularly on youth homelessness.
The state department for social welfare organizes dialogues
between stakeholders of the homeless and the youth welfare
services to find a connecting model for the prevention of
homelessness and the support for young homeless people beyond
local arrangements. Open end!
Investing in young people to prevent a lost generation in Europe:
key policy and practice in addressing youth homelessness
8th November 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
Alexander Sbosny
But…
There is no systematic funding or claiming of prevention networks
for young homeless people.
Local solutions depend on traditions, connections and political
opinions.
Young homeless men and women are a target group with only a