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