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UU Sjælland Syd CASE STORY

– a Youth Guidance Centre By Manager
Per Højland

Our main aim is to give every trade unions or employers’
young person the guidance and organisations. UU ensures that all young peo-
support that he or she needs in ple between the age of 15 and
relation to education-, training- As for young people outside 17 have a plan for their educa-
or job-related decisions. Plenary the education system, we tion, that they are enrolled
classroom guidance sessions for have three local offices in the in an education, or that they
all pupils in lower secondary three municipalities, located are doing other activities that
schools are provided at public in places that are easy to find strengthen the young person in
and private schools. We arrange for young people. Any young relation to completing an educa-
introduction courses at differ- person is welcome to visit us at tion.
ent youth education institutions our offices or to contact us via
for all pupils in form 8, as well phone, e-mail or text message “We are informed auto-
as work placement periods for to make an appointment for a matically when a young
pupils in forms 8, 9 and 10. A guidance session. Our website person drops out of
one-week bridge building course provides all relevant contact school or college and
takes place at different youth details. We are informed we then contact him or
education institutions for all automatically when a young her to discuss available
pupils in form 10. person drops out of school or options”.
college and we then contact
We are in close contact with him or her to discuss available We work in close cooperation
enterprises and the social part- options. Furthermore, our own with the Job Centres on educa-
ners in our area and we act as a administrative system regularly tional guidance of young people
mediator when schools want to reminds our guidance counsel- under 30 who apply for public
visit e.g. a specific type of enter- lors to contact the young peo- aid and receive an educational
prise, or if they wish to invite ple whom we consider to be order from the Job Centre. In
representatives from enterprises, “at risk” for various reasons. two of the municipalities, we

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