Extra-adult

Important results from the project

The intervention extra-adult aims to fill a void in the social services´ range of interventions and prevent that youths are left without support. Youths want emotional support from their Extra-adult and for this reason we have developed a solid support material consisting of various exercises and films. During the project, we collaborated with 4 municipalities. The goal was that they would implement and grant Extra-adult and that the work would contribute to system change in the municipalities. This has been reached in 2 of our municipalities and the remaining are working towards that.

Expected long term effects

Our main results is that more youths in the municipalities have the opportunity to be granted support in a timely manner based on their needs. As this is a group of youths who have previously been left without adequate support, we see that this can have a positive effect for the municipalities that have the opportunity to give support earlier and prevent the youths situation from deteriorating. In addition to this, we see that the municipalities have a new different view on support and now grant more interventions solely for the sake of youths regardless of the familys possibility to change.

Approach and implementation

During the project, we have established collaborations by entering into an IOP agreement. Clarifying early in the process what is expected of both parties has benefited us during implementation. This has meant that we have been able to start large-scale activities in the municipalities relatively quickly. Due to the pandemic, we have held the majority of the meetings digitally, which was not the plan from the beginning. Due to this we have saved time that would have been spent on travel and enabled to collaborate with more municipalities in the future, regardless of where they are located.