Career Guidance for Youth-at-risk in Finland

sector are based on the different needs of individuals. During last 30 years the principle of normalisation and the philosophy of integration have come strongly to the fore in the education of pupils and students in need of special support. The aim of the principle has been that the lives of disabled and disadvantaged people would be as normal as possible. Integration in education is considered to be the means of implementing this normalisation. The objective has been social integration, the opportunity for people with special needs to participate in regular instruction at schools. In this report the categories to describe the reasons of risk factors are divided into three groups: A young people with disabilities, B migrants or persons with migration background and C disadvantaged youth. Because the individuals with special needs are not divided into groups A and C in the Finnish educational system or society we will answer the questions combining groups A and C and when it is possible we will answer separately. Comprehensive educatio