By Glenda Quintini.
Youth who have disconnected from the education system and are not working or planning to return to training are at high risk of marginalisation. Some of these young people are homeless, have disabilities, have been in foster care and/or are known to the justice system. Efforts to create programmes that succeed in reconnecting these at-risk young people to education, the labour market and society more generally as early as possible are key. However, this is easier said than done. This group of highly-disadvantaged youth face multiple challenges in addition to lacking the skills and qualifications to reintegrate school or the labour market. Any intervention requires addressing all these needs in a comprehensive way.
Like other programmes to facilitate school-to-work transitions, those targeted on disconnected youth focus on providing participants with strong cognitive skills. This includes both foundation skills – such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving –…
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