Investigative action

The most urgent problems of the individual homeless person, which can be of a social, legal and health-related character, are remedied through an investigative action of an acute and supportive character.

The starting point is each individual person’s situation and need of help. The central aim is to build up a relationship based on confidence between the homeless person and the co-worker who can support him/her in taking better care of his/her own existence. If the user wants help for rehabilitation in the home country, projekt UDENFOR will see to support being given to the home journey and contact with the relevant institutions in the home country.

The many years’ experience of projekt UDENFOR with investigative and outgoing work of relation forms the background of the direct work with the foreign rough sleepers. The keywords are time, patience and focus on contact and reduction of damage. However, the foreign rough sleepers distinguish themselves from the group of Danish rough sleepers as far as their legal status is concerned and consequently their possibility of getting support from the public system. The street-level co-workers of projekt UDENFOR will therefore be limited in their possibilities to act and only in a limited way be able to offer the individual homeless foreigner a sufficient help. The experience of projekt UDENFOR is, however, that the most marginalized homeless have a special need of contact, support and damage reduction in the street.
This is what is offered in this project.

So far our experiences of projekt UDENFOR show that culturally some of the homeless foreigners distinguish themselves from the Danish homeless. Some of them will for instance find it difficult to accept help from a social worker. A fundamental value in the work of projekt UDENFOR is that all people want contact with - and support from - others. It is therefore a task in the project to develop new and test known methods to reach the target group.