"BACKGROUNDSocial exclusion and poverty among young people has grown over the course of the economic crisis and project partners are actively involved with this initiative in providing answers to the Youth strategy Field of Action ""Social Inclusion"". It aims first of all at contributing to the EU’s roles of addressing the issues of homelessness, housing, and poverty AND promoting access to services. Our final beneficiaries - young people from residential care facilities - often lack a strong family or social network to fall back on. A considerable number of homeless people has lived in their young life in an youth care institution. A significant number of them became afterwards ‘structurally homeless’ and lifelong unemployed not being able to organize all aspects in their lives in a decent way! This is often not a matter of the quality of the care, but due to an ineffective guidance in the transition of youth care to young adultness. The gap after youth care is for many vulnerable youngster to big. Current research, reports and policy briefs conclude that many homeless persons have a past in the youth care. They usually focus on the lack of means, strategies and instruments of the youth care service providers to avoid this process of becoming structural homeless but not enough attention is given to the specific needs and questions of the youth in question. GOALTherefore the project aims at analyzing, involving stakeholders, youth workers and vulnerable people in a first light but relevant process of designing and experimenting youth after care mechanisms based on personal budget. This goal will be reach with and be targeted to authorities, service providers and their workers and vulnerable young people.ACTIVITIESThe project will be structured around 4 workpackages:WP1: PROJECT COORDINATION, with 3 transnational project meetings and connection with Advisory Board.WP2 - PROMOTION AND DISSEMINATION, based on 2 Multiplying Events and targeted to authorities, service providers, representatives of the beneficiaries and their relatives, support structures who regularly will meet in the context of the Youth Care Platform, EU representatives. WP3: YOUTH CARE GUARANTEE – THE WAY TO GO, where a preliminary concept of a Model of the Youth Care Guarantee will be developed. Partners will work together on identifying alternative means of reaching young adults that make a transition from institutionalized care to independent adulthood. They will investigate current possible trajectories for young people that assures their rights to care, support and societal participation after youth care. This phase will deliver I.O. 1: Model of a Youth Care Guarantee – FIRST VERSION.WP4: YOUTH CARE GUARANTEE – FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE . This Work Package will be based on 2 complementary activities: ACTIVITY 1: Focus Groups in Belgium, Austria, Italy, will be arranged in order to review and provide feedback on evidences delivered during WP3. I.O.1, thus helping the PPs to translate it into a first operational tool. Focus Groups will involve targeted youngsters, care givers and authorities. ACTIVITY 2: A small pilot will be run in Belgium: a virtual budget for these young adults to manage. Participants will be asked to assess what they need to fully participate in society after they’ve left care. This will have the form of a ‘personal plan’ with concrete aims, services needed and a (virtual) financial budget. At the end of these activities, partners will deliver a Reviewed Model of Youth Care Guarantee with Recommendations and Roadmap (final I.O.1).The main TARGET GROUPS of the project are: managing authorities (national, regional and local), service providers (public and private, including their professionals and youth workers), young people.1) IMPACT ON PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: increased level of knowledge about steps to be undertaken to adopt after care schemes based on personal budgets2) IMPACT ON AUTHORITIES: increase their knowledge and awareness on after care schemes3) IMPACT ON SERVICE PROVIDERS: increased awareness levels about the possibility of introducing youth after care mechanisms and increased responsibility in promoting youth rights for after care services4) IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE: increased awareness of the potential of after care schemes and increased capacity of ""managing"" and ""using"" mechanisms which support their independence.In terms of long term benefits we expect to be able to introduce mechanisms which will finally guarantee the rights of vulnerable young people to be better supported also after 18 thus reducing the risk of permanent vulnerability and exclusion."

Inclusive support of ageing people with disabilities is – by definition – a trans sectoral challenge: in an inclusive society, mainstream services support all citizens, disabled or not. When people with a disability – living independently or within a residential context with others – express their wish to live as long as possible in their own ‘home’ (cfr. the ageing in place principle) and when mainstream services for the elderly or home care services are invited to support also this group of citizens (cfr. community based support), it is clear that this ‘new’ situation reveals new challenges and requires an active transition strategy in all fields involved: mainstream services for the elderly are not ready to support 'disabled' people; services supporting people with disabilities don't know how to deal with 'newe ageing related needs of their clients.Especially on the level of the professionals involved, the desired transition from the medical towards a social inclusive model, requires new beliefs, attitudes and different (additional) competences - in all fields involved. This project started from a strong conviction that organizations and professionals active in different fields need to, but also want to work together across their own field; they are open to learn from each other. -In this inclusive context, services for the elderly, need to learn how to care for and support ageing people, also when they are disabled: staff needs to acquire new, additional skills related to the needs of the disabled persons. -At the same time, services for the disabled need to acquire skills in order to create opportunities for the disabled elderly to age at the place of their choice for as long as they wish and are able to. These services need to acquire new skills, related to 'ageing'.-Both fields need to learn to support the ageing persons towards an active and valued participation into society.The fields involved can learn from each other; by doing so they improve the level of key competences necessary for inclusive support and for guaranteeing quality of life and wellbeing. This belief was the starting point for an intensive and interesting exchange of good practices among 10 European innovative organizations. The Erasmus+ project created the conditions to share ‘inclusive’ practices and to learn about the conditions and critical factors of success (or failure) of inclusive approaches. 6 international meetings and study visits, and more than 25 practices, were the starting point for critical reflections on conditions and outcomes on different levels: 1. professionals and their skills, 2. the organizations and their HR, quality and VET policies, 3. local/national policy makers and regulations, 4. education and the curriculum.The partnership - with representatives from services for the elderly and from the disability field, but also from high schools, research and international networks - produced a set of suggestions and starting points for actions (recommendations) on four themes that – already from the very beginning – were the ‘red lines’ through the practices: 1. quality of life - as focus, 2. ageism and perceptions on ageing - as hindering factor, 3. a ‘new’ inclusive professional profile - focusing on new skills, 4. informal care - as keystone for inclusion. The comprehensive final thematic report with suggestions for actions based on these 4 themes is available on the TRIADE website (http://triadeproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/171031-TRIADE-FINAL-THEMATIC-REPORT.pdf).The projectpartners have continuously received feedback from their Local Expert Groups, established in each country, with members from the same and different fields. These LEG's realized the main dissemination of the project regionally and (depending on the country) nationally. They were a strong link to education and to many umbrella organizations and their strategic working groups. This Erasmus+ project was continuously visible on European level, through the ENSA network (European Network of Social Authorities) and through a wide spread TRIADE Newsletter. The project was invited several times on European initiatives - the Annual Convention for Inclusive Growth 2016 as a most important one.Several good TRIADE practices are already implemented; the wide set of recommendations, based on the real experiences of participants actively involved at the work floor, may give directions to concrete initiatives for future actions. We hope…