VET - Mariaberg

Vocational Education and Training

  • Quality Management. 
  • Rehabilitation Apprenticeship in 17 professions.
  • Work supporting services.
  • Social-emotional support in rehabilitation.
  • Projects to close the gap between school and work – especially for people with mild learning disabilities and school problems. 
  • Financing: national employment agency mostly tenders by law.
Vocational Schools
  • Special needs vocational school 
  • Special needs vocational  schools for social services
  • Job preparation school for youth with mild learning needs
Residential homes
  • 10 homes for youth taken into care. 
  • 2 social therapy living communities (soul-disability)
  • 1 day structure service
  • Special services: apprentice-community, assisted living.
  • Financed by the youth welfare office (yearly negotiation)
Main Challenges
  • Staff recruitment – (working times, challenging behaviour, competiton in the labor market)
  • „system sprinkler“ – young people who doesn ́t fit in the system activities (school, work, living)
  • Mental health issues – additional to learning needs
  • Invest in nonformal education • Populism as easy answers (open youth work) • Time for democratic processes
  • Youth work as supporter for schools??
  • Digitalization
  • Inclusion of refugees, poverty, disability