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Guiding at-risk youth through learning to work
Lessons from across Europe

process until they have settled in education, training or employment. Throughout,
they need to receive support in as holistic a manner as possible to address their
diverse needs, wishes and aspirations.
Across the range of examples identified, it is also possible to identify a
number of common features and elements that make them successful. These
common factors are illustrated in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Elements of successful reintegration routes

Source: GHK Consulting, 2009.

5.3.1. Guidance
Guidance plays a central role in measures to reintegrate young people into
education, training or employment. It is a crucial element in a support package to
help young people to identify and understand how to overcome the barriers they
face in accessing education or employment. Further, guidance can support them
in developing their self-esteem by recognising their own strengths and
formulating goals for the future.
Tracking measures are an example. Tracking alone is not enough to ensure
young people who have dropped out are able to reintegrate into education and
training. Tracking provides a means of identifying young people at an early stage,
before disengagement is entrenched. However, tracking must be accompanied
by a robust system of guidance and other support measures, to enable them to
address and overcome the issues which led them to drop out of school.

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