Unaccompanied alien minors
Our commitment
Con With its commitment to unaccompanied alien minors, Fondazione Cariplo supports the strengthening of their integration, independence and inclusion in local areas, through interventions aimed at educational and psychosocial care, development of skills and consolidation of local systems.
The Foundation’s action aims to contribute to greater responsiveness from institutions and local communities, by promoting collaboration between public bodies, the Third Sector and philanthropic bodies, and by encouraging the dissemination of shared knowledge and practices on the subject.
Fondazione Cariplo launched the first interventions to support unaccompanied alien minors in 2016, by promoting trials of new approaches to reception and integration, the strengthening and dissemination of best practices for second reception, as well as their monitoring and advocacy activities at national level.
In the following years, taking as a starting point the experience of the national initiative Never Alone, the need emerged to combine the systemic approach with a more direct commitment to local areas, oriented towards the construction of integrated care systems that could overcome the fragmentation of interventions and ensure greater continuity in minors’ pathways.
Based on this evidence, in 2024 Fondazione Cariplo redefined and strengthened its commitment, by adopting a multifaceted approach that combines:
- initiatives for co-ordination and learning at a national level
- targeted interventions in urban settings where there are significant numbers of unaccompanied alien minors
- participatory planning pathways and strengthening of local networks.
The Foundation’s current commitment plays out along through three complementary lines of action, designed to operate on different scales and in an integrated way.
The Foundation’s current commitment plays out along through three complementary lines of action, designed to operate on different scales and in an integrated way.
