Youth support service and conditions of youth poverty in France

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26885067
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Matsubara Hitomi 大阪市立大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 特別研究員 (70736347)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 若者 / 貧困 / 格差 / 地域 / フランス / 付添い支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Missions Locales (ML) are associations specializing in youth issues in France. They play a role as a platform of global services and encourage integration of young people into social and professional life. Each young beneficiary is followed by a personal counsellor, and gets advice and help on school, housing, health and other social problems as well as job seeking, training and career guidance. However, individualization of support services have structural problems. On the one hand, counsellors of ML grasp the situations of young people by means of an information sharing system effectively. On the other hand, the ML's information sharing system also shows that the young are exposed to the risk of poverty due to the difficulties they experience in accessing employment; lack of education, lack of qualifications, district of residence and transportation.

Free Research Field

フランス社会政策