少年自立生活方案是家外安置少年，歷經兒童暨少年保護處遇的家庭重建/維繫服務等介入後的最後選項。意旨經歷一連串不安與變動的寄養或機構安置後，諸些裁量原生家庭與親屬仍無法提供少年發展性需求之個案，將再度面臨獨立生活的情境挑戰。而自立生活方案的目的，即在於協助諸些少年，妥適生活安排進而轉銜進入成年前期之社會生活適應。 本文旨在針對現行服務架構中以安置期間的自立準備，以及進入獨立生活後的生活適應階段之歷程，透過「泛家族」概念，探討少年於安置機構轉銜自立生活的經驗中，所呈現與專業人員、安置同儕間關係對自立生活方案規劃之意涵；另一方面透過「自立」概念之檢視，對應中西文化下之概念內涵，呈現個人取向與社會取向之自立途徑差異。盼從少年自立生活之本質面，探討方案規劃之基礎元素省察，回應「何謂自立？」、「安置情境下的泛家族經驗」對於方案之服務元素規劃之思維激發，盼在國內目前承襲以西方文化脈絡下，發展成形的少年自立方案，可愈加對於方案核心概念的本土意涵重視，並初步勾勒回應在地文化需求差異下之服務規劃。

Independent Living Program (ILP) is the last option to place children & adolescents outside their families after the intervention of family reconstruction and preservation services. It means that after a series of disturbing and unstable foster or institutional service, the authorities determine the adolescents whose biological families and relatives still unable to meet their developmental needs have to face the situational challenges to live independently again. The purpose of ILP is to help arrange these adolescents their current lives and then get adapted for social life when they enter their early adulthood. The theme of this article is to discuss the implications of the contrast between adolescents’ relationships with professionals and their peers in the placement environment and the plans for ILP they present from the experience they get in becoming independent from institutional agencies, based on the preparations for independence during placement under current service structures and the phases of life adaption after becoming independent through the concept of the “Pan-familism”. On the other hand, by reviewing concept of “self-supporting”, here we correspond to the ideas and implications under eastern and western cultures to present the differences between individual-oriented and social-oriented means of becoming independent. From the nature of adolescents’ independent living, we wish to correspond to the question of “What is the definition of Independent Living?” and to inspire the ideas inspired by “the experiences of the pan-familism of Chinese under institutional circumstances” in planning service components of the program. Furthermore, to develop a mature ILP under the current domestic context that sequenced from western culture will emphasize the local implications on the program core concepts more and to draw the initial service plans that correspond to local needs and cultural differences.