Nowadays young people find it somewhat hard to get integrated into society when turning 18 years old. Getting a decent job as a step towards independent life is not the only problem youngsters have to deal with when building their future, though it is one of the most pressing need they have to go through.

If young people are experiencing serious problems in the current economic environment, young care leavers find themselves in a much harder situation given their lack of financial resources and affective support.

The Paris-based Observatoire National de l'Enfance en Danger (ONED), entrusted with monitoring "childhood in danger", is organizing a one-day conference on how to help support young care-leavers when leaving the national system of social protection.

Committed to supporting young care leavers, AiBi has been invited to divulgate the outputs of the research project "Life After Institutional Care" which has run from 2008 to 2009 and interested 5 EU countries (Italy, France, Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia).

AiBi will further inform on the methods applied to get young care leavers involved into the research through a participative methodology.