The aim for this study was to investigate how young adults describe their emerging adulthood, when coming from problematic teenage years. Three people around the age of 25 were interviewed. They had experience of non-institutional community care during their teenage years. To capture the narrative the informants gave of their youth, a life course perspective and resilience theory was used to understand if and how they have managed stress and adversity in their life. The study shows similarities to earlier studies on youth leaving institutional care or foster care, with heightened risk of school failings, shortened transition between youth and adulthood and a continued problematic life situation. The study shows the importance of meaningful relations outside of the family context. Transition periods and other turning points offers the possibility to explore new roles and with time incorporate the interventions of the non-institutional community care which can lead to personal growth.

This master thesis is based on the service non-governmental organizations (NGO) which provides mainly social services to the public. The master thesis focuses on the service and non-service activities of this organizations with an emphasis on the non-service activities. This thesis investigates how these NGO's theoretically realize the functions of NGO's through these activities and with what functions are the certain activities connected. The important element is to describe and categorize the non-service activities and explain how they were realized, why they were realized and if they are important for the head of these organizations. The master thesis also directs on financing of NGO's and on the problem, that service NGO's are very often dependent on the state financial sources. This thesis shows how the financial system of researched NGO's relates to the non-service activities of these organizations. The branch of my research are youth clubs. Key words: Functions of NGO's, groups of activities of NGO's, financing, youth clubs, problematic youth