Aim:
The study session aims support homeless service adapt trauma informed care for the needs of young people.
The specific objectives of the study session are to:
- Framing youth homelessness as a violation of human rights
- Understanding what trauma is, and the connection to experiences of homelessness
- Understanding the connection between trauma and how young people engage or disengage in services.
- Connecting trauma as an obstacle to accessing human rights
- Understanding how to apply trauma informed care.
- Developing competences to adapt trauma informed care to their services, including target groups such as LGBTIQ youth, unaccompanied minors, young with experience of gender-based violence and young migrants.
About the organisation
FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless. Established in 1989, FEANTSA brings together non-profit services that support homeless people in Europe. FEANTSA’s work on youth homelessness focuses on developing youth orientation solutions that meet the specific needs of young people at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness in their transition to adulthood and independent living. Current youth priorities include promoting the European Framework for Defining Youth Homelessness, promoting youth specific practices and building an awareness for intersectional approaches to combatting youth homelessness.
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