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Young people experiencing homelessness participate in European research project |
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May 1st 2008 was the starting date of the project Combating social exclusion among young homeless populations (CSEYHP): a comparative investigation of homeless paths among local white, local ethnic group and migrant young men and women and appropriate reinsertion methods.
This three-year re-search project is funded by the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Union and it will be coordinated by MOVISIE, the Netherlands centre for social development in Utrecht.
Levels of youth homelessness vary between European countries in relation to the patterns of support that are available to them. In northern Europe interventionist programmes have been developed to work with homeless populations. The project aims to test the usefulness of two of these programmes – the Dutch 8-steps model and the Safe Moves model in the UK – when working with homeless youth.
The project involves the active participation of young homeless people: as sources of information on their own lives and histories, as co-researchers in interviewing their peers, and as contributors to the national workshops that will take place in the four countries to assess and discuss the research findings. At the end of the three-year project the results will be presented in an international conference.
>For further information: http://www.movisie.nl/homelessyouth
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