The project "CarePath: Empowering public authorities and professionals towards trauma-informed leaving care support" is co-financed by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (REC 2014-2020). It aims to develop develop an integrated approach for the protection of children ageing out of care in EU, empowering professionals and public authorities towards trauma-informed approaches.
The CarePath library includes all the project's publicly available deliverables and results/outcomes.
The Carepath online platform will accommodate the training programme (MOOC) for professionals working with traumatised children in care
CarePath service provision mechanism will be a web-based system aiming to bring together relevant stakeholders and professionals working with children leaving care (e.g. public authorities, NGOs, social services, child protection agencies and psychotherapists, healthcare), and to make available processes to cover a range of multi-dimensional interventions based on trauma screening and assessment.
On 13 October 2020, the CarePath Partnership held our online conference, Aftercare for Care Leavers: Learning lessons across Europe, to conclude our two years of cooperation and to raise the issue of aftercare for children and young people on the EU agenda.
We have reached the closure of the CarePath Project and look back at 2 and a half years of hard work, interesting exchange and the creation of impactful results.
The transition to adulthood and independent living is a challenging time for many young people. Thankfully, most have their families to fall back on when life doesn’t go exactly to plan. Young people who have grown up in public care usually don’t have that luxury. And too often state support is removed, or cut back when a young person turns 18. The consequences can be devastating not only for the young people involved but for society as a whole.
The availability of ‘aftercare’ - state support for young people who have left care - varies between and within European countries in terms of availability and quality. The COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures have only accentuated the challenges these young people face.