abstract: 'The European policies through its own funding programs underline the

  increase need for creating educational models for people at risk. Many

  official documents speak about vulnerable groups of the European

  society, constantly creating categorizations that are not always

  understandable and relevant for social workers with activities in social

  inclusion. Slightly less is discussed about the failure of some

  implemented programs to facilitate the social inclusion of vulnerable

  raised within the social assistance systems of the Member State. In

  Romania also, for some years now, a series of social integration models

  for youngsters which come from the child protection system was

  experimented, which unfortunately can''t always be considered good

  practices. These young people abandoned by their families, are abandoned

  for the second time after graduation by the system in which they grew up

  and which offered them a range of services and protection measures, but

  without access to the labor market. Through the opportunities opened by

  the adult education system it is possible to develop some innovative

  training concepts for these young people which often do not require

  state protection by basic services, a house and food, but adequate

  employment opportunities. This article analyses the European and

  Romanian possibilities for the inclusion of youngsters at risk by

  proposing the implementation of a training and employment system through

  apprenticeship in local workshops or Small and medium enterprises

  (SMEs). This model offers youngsters a place of work where they can

  practice their competencies, a mentor from which they can learn, the

  experience of a job environment and of course a minimum income for their

  work. This training concept can be included and valorized by

  establishing a legal framework to facilitate the public-private

  partnership, the cooperation between adult education institutions, local

  businesses and child protection systems, for the benefit of this

  disadvantaged category. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

  This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license

  (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/3.0/).'
affiliation: Gafiuc, Petru Vasile, Reg Assoc Adult Educ Suceava, Suceava 720228, Romania.
author: Gafiuc, Petru Vasile
author-email: pvgafiuc@gmail.com
author_list:
- family: Gafiuc
  given: Petru Vasile
booktitle: 'ADULT EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES: LOCAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES'
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.652
editor: Vasile, C
files: []
issn: 1877-0428
keywords: 'adult education institutions; apprenticeship; social inclusion;

  youngsters at risk'
language: English
note: '4th International Conference on Adult Education, Iasi, ROMANIA, APR

  27-30, 2014'
number-of-cited-references: '5'
pages: 481-486
papis_id: 2668dad2d3fbe23b4d0af039c54e706a
ref: Gafiuc2014educationalconcepts
series: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences
times-cited: '0'
title: Educational Concepts for Social Inclusion on the Labor Market of Young People
  at Risk
type: proceedings
unique-id: WOS:000345346000075
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
volume: '142'
web-of-science-categories: Education \& Educational Research
year: '2014'