Trapezistak is a one-stop-shop integral model to promote successful transitions to adulthood of (migrant) youth in social disadvantage and without family references:

Framed in the Basque youth and migration policies, focused on rights and inclusion, is co-designed and developed from an inter-institutional perspective and in cooperation with the Social Third Sector in Basque Country.

Designed from the experience of the last pandemic for the experimentation of innovative, person-centered and multi-dimensional solutions, is inspired also by successful European practices adapted to our context.

Specifically designed and strongly oriented to generate measurable impact (with an integrated monitoring and evolutive evaluation scheme) for subsequent replication and scaling up.

The fundamentals of Trapezistak are:

• Youth and migration policies as the ordinary framework.
• Emancipation right and rights (subjective or objective) linked to emancipation.
• Need of specific emancipation policies (to leave parents home and consolidate it).
• Emancipation and social inclusion as goals (enhancing autonomous living).
• Transition to adulthood as a longer process.
• Positive action inside a normalized emancipation network (gender, origin…)
• Emancipation as result of several factors (employment, housing, income + capacities for autonomous living, cultural framework…)
• Multidimensional (one-stop shop) and community approach (community model).
• Public leadership and cooperation between sectors.
• Focus on rights and duties.
• Universal Declaration on Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, and the European Pillar of Social Rights as references.
• Starting profiles and limits of the program.
• Regulated access to citizenship / youth interventions with people who is in Euskadi.
• Model of reception and social inclusion (vg: arrival resources oriented to agile integration with the participation of the community, and interculturality vs multiculturality or assimilation models).

The Keys factors of success of Trapezistak

1. A local network of more than 20 non-profit social third sector organizations from de Basque Country.

Agintzari participate in this local network and also coordinate the program. Each organization offers at least, neighborhood-based housing solutions and social-educational intervention and a personal reference to the young and the local community, enhance both capacities and opportunities. Some of them additionally offer training-labour intermediation services.

2. Measuring of the impact

Integrated dual monitoring process:

quantitative indicators (milestones/scales)

qualitative (evolutive evaluation model; Aguirre Lehendakaria Center / AC4-Columbia University).

Combines strategic (Coordinating Team), technical (intervention team) and individual (the Trapezistak themselves) assessment.

 Documents:

• Trapezistak (PPTX, 3 MB)
• Summary 2023-2024 (PPTX, 1 MB)

 Links:

• Videos and news about the program:
  • Irekia Eusko Jaurlaritza - Gobierno Vasco: El programa Trapezistak crece y acompaña a 606 jóvenes sin red familiar en su proceso de inclusión social a través de la formación, el acompañamiento social y los recursos habitacionales
  • Irekia Eusko Jaurlaritza - Gobierno Vasco: El Programa Trapezistak acompaña a 374 jóvenes sin red familiar en su proceso de integración social a través de la formación, el asesoramiento y los recursos habitacionales
  • Irekia Eusko Jaurlaritza - Gobierno Vasco: El Gobierno Vasco presenta el programa Trapezistak de acompañamiento a 115 jóvenes sin red familiar para evitar su exclusión social
• Recognitions:
  • The European Committee of the Regions recognized Trapezistak as one of ten success stories featured in the European Union’s 2024 Annual Report on the State of Regions and Cities. Trapezistak was specifically highlighted as a success story in the area of demographic challenges (page 40): EU annual report 2024. The state of regions and cities.
  • Trapezistak has also been included into the best practices bibliothèque of European Social Network, the European network of public institutions working in the field of social services:
    Trapezistak - Tightrope Walkers | ESN
    
  • In addition, the Basque Government has been invited to participate in various European-level events to present the program. Among them was the Summit of Regions and Cities held in Mons, Belgium:
    Minister Mrs Nerea Melgosa presents the “Trapezistak” program at the Summit of Regions and Cities in Mons, Wallonia, as a reception model for other regions of the EU