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Introduction
This working paper concerns the social policy intervention Cohousing and case management for Unaccompanied young adult Refugees in ANTwerp (CURANT). CURANT is an ‘innovative urban project’ funded by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The project is led by the City of Antwerp and implemented in collaboration with a consortium of five other institutions. The central target group of CURANT are unaccompanied minors with refugee status or subsidiary protection, who have recently turned 18 and thus entered adulthood, or are about to do so. CURANT…
Abstract
In residential youth care, a positive living group climate is one of the main pillars for having a child grow up and develop optimally. Despite its importance, the development of a positive living group climate seems to be “under pressure,” due to recent evolutions in residential youth care all over the world. This article describes what could be learned from a project focused on monitoring the living group climate in a residential youth care service in Flanders, Belgium. The objectives were (a) to investigate the implications of this project specifically aimed at improving the…