Italian Ai.Bi Amici dei Bambini association -in collaboration with Emilia Romagna Regional Administration, the Social Department of Bologna Municipality and the CEIS and CSAPSA cooperative associations - will held, on Wednesday 2 December 2009 a round table meeting to deal with the issue of out-of-family youths leaving the childhood protection system and their subsequent social inclusion.

Creating a network to support social inclusion of out-of-family youths: this is the objective of the specific event.

The activity is part of the Life after Institutional Care project, co-sponsored by the European Commission. On of the activities carried on within the project was qualitative and quantitative research, carried on in five European countries (Italy, France, Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria) whose aim was to promote effective social policies for a full and effective social inclusion of out-of-family youths.

The Bologna event is going to be an ideal setting for an exchange between the parties involved in the project, local and central authorities, youths and charities that help children and adolescents with family problems, in order to create an ever-improving network to assist these youths that, after turning of age, must start a difficult journey towards independence.

The result of the research carried on in Italy was useful to draw out some guidelines that may be helpful to promote concretely the professional and social inclusion of those boys and girls as well as suggesting some solutions to the problems of lodging, health care and financial independence.

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Round table agenda

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