1. Boligkonferansen 2013 SARPSBORG | 28. – 30. MAI Robert Olsen, Director, Kofoed’s School www.kofoedsskole.dk

2. 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

3. Circumstances behind youth homelessness  Structural circumstances  Institutional circumstances  Interpersonal circumstances  Individual circumstances

4. 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