Question 9534 — young people

Summary

In the current context of recurrent economic crises and weakening of social bonds, the transition to adulthood and autonomy often proves to be long and difficult, these difficulties being multiplied for young people marked by situations of vulnerability, whether young people in care or leaving child welfare (ASE). The question of the autonomy of young people leaving ASE is complex because they are often poorly prepared for this deadline by the services that support them. On the one hand, on a psychological level, they have been weakened by a difficult past marked by neglect, even mistreatment and often breakups. They often present with psychological disorders linked to this past. The social and family network can be unstructured, absent, or even hostile. Furthermore, the articulation between the actors and the systems specific and common law is difficult, which does not facilitate access to autonomy for these young people. For young people taken care of by the ASE, the more chaotic the care process has been, the more difficult it is to become adults and become independent. The mobilization of departmental councils, which, as an extension of their child protection missions, makes it possible to ensure support for these young adults up to 21 years intended to promote their integration, with the establishment of contracts for young adults. As of December 31, 2016, 299,600 minors and 20,900 young people under the age of 21 benefited from a child protection measure in France (child welfare). The measures taken by the law of March 14, 2016 relating to the protection of children have laid down milestones to improve support towards the autonomy of these young people. These measurements are, in particular the establishment of an interview at 17 years of age to prepare a project for access to autonomy (article 15) and the signing of a departmental partnership protocol, in order to better support access to autonomy for young people taken into care or leaving child welfare and judicial youth protection systems, between those involved in training, employment, health, housing, etc. (article 17). In extension of the 2016 law, work was undertaken recently to set up specific bridges between the ASE services of the departmental councils and the public employment service via the registration of young people from the ASE in the instruction relating to the implementation of the contractualized support pathway towards employment and autonomy (PACEA) and the Youth Guarantee of May 17, 2018. This involves mobilize the actors of the ASE and local missions so that they work jointly with the young person, before their exit from the child protection system, to develop a project for access to autonomy adapted to the skills, desires and needs of the young person. Informing these young people about their right to support towards employment and autonomy, implemented by local missions from the age of 16, will promote readability for young people and ASE professionals from all facets of the professional integration policy that they can mobilize. Finally, if the young person from the ASE wishes to benefit from socio-professional support, carrying out the diagnosis planned upstream of the PACEA will make it possible to strengthen the assessment of the capacities and needs of the young people from the ASE and to develop the most appropriate guidance and assistance possible. This provision will promote comprehensive care combining protection and professional integration and will facilitate access for these young people in parallel with ASE support to common law systems specifically dedicated to young people. In this same perspective, the strategies currently being developed (strategy for preventing and combating child and youth poverty, national strategy for child protection and the plan five-year plan for housing first and the fight against homelessness 2018-2022) provide for measures to notably improve preparation for leaving the ASE, articulate the services offered by departmental councils to young adults aged 18 to 21 and common law systems, particularly accommodation/housing or support towards employment, so that no young person leaves without a solution. At the same time, work study are undertaken on the one hand to better understand the profile and situation of young people aged 16 to 21 supported by the ASE services and on the other hand to have a better knowledge of the practices of departmental councils in this area. It also involves assessing the needs of young people and their level of autonomy in order to better support them in their social and professional integration. Finally, work will be launched at the end 2018 on the situation of young people, those most at risk of breakdown, who leave the ASE as soon as they reach the age of majority either according to their own will or because they have been refused or shortened an extension of their support by the ASE. This involves providing suitable solutions allowing some to return to request the ASE by reaching out to them and for others to offer support methods with a low threshold of requirements in order to avoid a break with institutions and more broadly the social group.

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