Aim of the proposal and urban challenge it addresses* (max 200) The aim of this proposal is to develop an educational program with the provisional name ‘Care and Law’. The aim of this multidisciplinary educational program is to increase the knowledge of future professionals working at the intersection …

Over the last decade, many (European) countries have created special committees or conducted special investigations into the occurrence of sexual abuse in residential and/or foster care. Many of these studies concluded that children and young people in care are at a greater risk of being sexually abused, …

Due to the digitalization new forms of media have been developed that involve a po-tential risk for adolescents. Nowadays, young adults are always online and through social networks and instant messengers they can for example be bullied easily and data can be used improperly. Moreover, adolescents are …

Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

This article explores the challenges local youth workers face at the intersection of providing social care and detecting violent extremism. Extremism and other radical ideologies are often assumed to be a harbinger of terrorism. Even though both are still a rare phenomenon among adolescents, European …

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work. Political developments require to demonstrate the added value of professional youth work to active citizenship. Due to the complex, dynamic and interactive nature of professional youth …

Behavioral change of incarcerated boys is influenced by the alliance with the group workers who support them. This alliance is partly determined by the extent to which both the needs of group workers and boys are being fulfilled. The objective of this research was to explore the views of incarcerated …

The Alchemy project of the Centre of Expertise Youth, University of Applied Sciences Leiden studies the (development of) golden professionalism of youth professionals, including teachers. The project findings will be used to improve teacher training and the education of social workers. In this paper, …