1. YOUTH ACTIVE PLUS Companionship, support, internships, job projects
- short overview -
Sieglinde Ritz
Lawaetz-Foundation Hamburg
November 2017

2. Basic information Duration of the project : 01.01.2017 – 31.12.2020
Project management: Johann Daniel Lawaetz-Foundation
 focus on coordination, administration, etc.
Subpartners: 12 partners: community based organisations –
 located in all districts
 focus on target group
Funding: European Social Fund (ESF) (28 %) districts of the City of Hamburg Ministry of Labour, Social and Family Affairs and Integration (9.5 Mio. € in total/ 4 years)

3. Basic information
Target group: NEET´s (age 18 to 25/ parents up to 27)
with multiple social problems and no job prospects
not reached by the regular system; social benefits are cut
Aims
to empower vocational and social (re-)integration of the target group
to develop new connections between facilities
to build up new networks and cooperation structures on local and on regional level (between all districts)
to develop strong interfaces to the youth employment agencies

4. Success factors youth welfare system Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
Cooperation /networking on a local and regional level
youth welfare system
Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
The cooperation works in both directions:
1. the social workers accompany the clients who are not registered or who have problems with their requests to the YEA
2. the employees in the YEA (district or jobcenter) - send the clients with various social and vocational problems to the project, too.
know-how transfer between districts and facilities
2. Counselling on an individual base and low-threshold access
success in reaching and integration the target group
3. Work moduls/ Internship
placing the young people into jobs/ practical training
to develop social skills such as reliability, teamwork