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Boligkonferansen 2013 SARPSBORG | 28. – 30. MAI Robert Olsen, Director, Kofoed’s School www.kofoedsskole.dk. Kan historien si hva vi kan lykkes med i fremtiden? Erfaringer med å bosette og integrere sett fra Kofoed skole. About Kofoed’s School.
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Boligkonferansen 2013 SARPSBORG | 28. – 30. MAI Robert Olsen, Director, Kofoed’s School www.kofoedsskole.dk Kan historien si hva vi kan lykkes med i fremtiden? Erfaringer med å bosette og integrere sett fra Kofoed skole
About Kofoed’s School • Established 1928 for excluded groups: long term unemployed, addicts, homeless, vulnerable groups, immigrants • Provides education, work shop training, counselling, homeless services • 4.200 students per year, 700 daily. 125 staff members • Method Help to self help • Kofoed’s School activities in several countries • Youth hostels for 34 young homeless: places for 50 homeless
Circumstances behind youth homelessness • Structural circumstances • Institutional circumstances • Interpersonal circumstances • Individual circumstances
Development and experience in Denmark • Better service, more educated staff • Focus on more than one problem • Decentralisation • Housing first • Earliere intervention • Support in own home • Flexibel rent contracts • Alternative housing