Reception of homeless young people
Homeless people are also young and educated. The economic crisis, combined with a poor support network, has increased the number of young people without resources who go to shelters and reception centers looking for accommodation and help.
The common reality in all cases is the lack of support, networks and a family that can cover the most basic needs in the transition to adult life. Most have relatives, but they cannot support them, nor do the young people want to worry them from a distance about their real situation, as in the case of young immigrants. In other circumstances, relationships with family members are good but sporadic or there are restraining orders.
The Dídac Sánchez Foundation will work to support homeless youth who find themselves in the aforementioned circumstances, offering them the tools and the most feasible solutions according to the personal situation of each of them, with the aim of achieving effective personal development that allows them in a short period of time to continue on the path of life without the need for external support.
The Dídac Sánchez Foundation will work to improve the following points
We identify three main groups of young people in vulnerable situations:
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Migration processes involve the displacement of unaccompanied immigrant minors or young people who travel without their relatives pursuing the European dream, with expectations of getting a job and being able to collaborate with their family in their country of origin. Being minors, they cannot work, lack work permits or job opportunities. They enter the child protection system until they reach adulthood, but once they turn 18, the situation of vulnerability remains. The Dídac Sánchez Foundation will collaborate with the development of labor educational initiatives, with the aim of reducing vulnerability once they leave the child protection system.
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Former foster youth are another at-risk group. Once they reach adulthood without having developed the necessary skills for the transition to autonomy and adult life, they lack a job and, therefore, their own economic resources, or they have a very precarious and unstable paid job.
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The third at-risk group is made up of young people who, for various reasons, have broken with their support and/or family networks and, although they have not been through protection resources, find themselves in a situation of exclusion or vulnerability.