CHANCE

The ‘CHANCE – Changing Lives by Community Engagement’ project main goal is to contribute to the implementation of effective community-based measures. It aims to develop a set of recommendations on child-friendly and rehabilitative community-based measures in Europe. 

This is expected to be achieved through the project’s main activities, which include the training of professionals working within juvenile justice systems, and an awareness-raising campaign geared towards civil society on the benefits of the implementation of community-based measures.

The principal direct beneficiaries of the project will be professionals from youth justice services, local authorities and NGOs which implement community-based measures on their premises, whilst the children and young people faced with the sanction will benefit indirectly.

This project is coordinated by Freedom Gate Greece, and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The partners participating in the ‘CHANCE’ project are the following: European Strategies Consulting (Romania), Silta-valmennusyhdistys ry (Finland), United Professionals for Sustainable Development Association (Bulgaria), Courage Foundation (Bulgaria), Fundación Diagrama Intervención Psicosocial (Spain), UISP Comitato Territoriale Cirie Settimo Chivasso (Italy), Asociația Județeană Sportul Pentru Toți Suceava (Romania), and the Greek Probation Service. 

In conducting the project in a transnational manner, the project has build on the existing good practices, evaluating them in different cultural and judicial contexts and extrapolating them at the European level.

Project started in 2029 and concluded in 2021