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Guiding at-risk youth through learning to

work: lessons from across Europe

The global economic crisis has given greater focus to improving TI-BC-09-001-EN-N
guidance services for at-risk youth to support social inclusion, active
participation in lifelong learning and smooth integration into working
life. This Cedefop report draws attention to guidance measures and
initiatives applied across Europe to aid school completion and
education-to-work transitions of young people who risk dropping out of
mainstream education and training or who already have done so.
The study suggests that coordinated approaches should be
combined with outreach work to identify and reach those individuals
who are in most urgent need of support. The partnership between
different actors needs to be based on mutual trust and respect but
also needs to place the interests of the young people first. Guidance
professionals and teaching staff providing guidance services should
learn how to establish a good working relationship with at-risk youth.
Further, parental involvement, together with competent teachers,
guidance practitioners, youth and social workers, labour-market
actors, and healthcare providers, are considered essential support in
the young person’s transition.
The findings of this Cedefop study should encourage future
action in the Member States on improving guidance service provision
to at-risk youth. The overall goal across the European Union is to
create good conditions for supporting young people’s smooth
transition from adolescence into a meaningful adulthood, with career
and learning opportunities, partnership and parenthood, financial and
residential independence.

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