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“How to co-operate for the most disadvantaged youth 16-25 years old?”

FLARE member: Vagen Ut!

Location: Hotel Kusten, Viken hall. Kustgatan 10, in Majorna, Gothenburg,

FLARE member “Vagen Ut!” organized the “Season of Legality” event in Goteborg, Sweden. “Vagen Ut!” is a cooperative that since 2002 focus their work on the social inclusion of former inmates and drug adicts showing that social entrepeneurship and social empowerment is possible.

 

Additionally, in the past months the city of Goteborg – through the efforts of FLARE and of Vagen Ut! – has shown much interest towards the possibility to open up doors for the inclusion of a law regarding the social reuse of properties confiscated to organized crime. On this matter, FLARE will function as an expertise provider. Together with Serbia and Macedonia, Sweden represents a country in which the debate on the social reuse of criminal properties has already started.

Program

Moderator Elisabet Mattsson, Vägen ut!co-operatives.

8.00 Coff ee and sandwich

8.30 – 8.50 Pernilla Svebo Lindgren, CEO Vägen ut! co-operatives welcomes the participants.

Dan Gaversjö, Head of Ung & Trygg, Lennart Palmgren, Head of Prison and Probation Service in West Sweden and Sven Bartilsson, President of the Social Economy in the Regionof Gothenburg (GSE) begin.

8.50 – 10.00 Why are we not capable of taking care of this particular group of young people?
Diff erent activities in Gothenburg give their version of how it is to work with the most disadvantaged young people, and the failures in that work, by characterize of the target group and examples.
Kojo Ansah-Pewudie, Ung & Trygg, sums up and draws parallels to what Ung & Trygg experience in their avtivities.

10.15 Coff ee

10.30 – 12.00 Good examples from Italy, Great Britain and Gothenburg
Luigi Ciotti, President of the Italian NGO ”Libera”, reports how they involve young people for social purposes as a force against the organaized crime. Among other activities, ”Libera” occupies youth in agriculture work on land confi scated from the maffi a. Libera is one of slightly more than 40 European NGO:s within FLARE. FLARE is an umbrella organisation that fi ghts crime cyndicates and organized crime all over Europe.

Kent Lundberg, co-ordinator in Biskoppsgården reports from fortunate activities with a diffi cult target group – students at Vingen Constructing. Th e project took place during 2007 and 2008.

Head of Ung & Trygg, Dan Gaversjö tells, among other tings, about Foyer activities in London.

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 Workshop: How to co-operate around ”The most disadvantaged youth”?
Seminar leaders Malin Kennerud, Vägen ut! Co-operatives, and Leif Tjärnström, Ung & Trygg, take charge of idea activities with the entire group.

14.30 – 14.45 Coff ee

14.45 – 15.30 Refl exions from the workshop

15.30 – 16.00 Summary discussion: How to continue our work together?

16.00 – 16.15 Finish
Dario Espiga, local politician (s) with a responability for social aff airs and chairman of the board for Social resources.