ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on children living in residential care and their inclusion in mainstream schools. Supporting the normalization of young people in residential care is a key issue. This urge to live normal lives among the young residents is, according to research results on a broad scale, their main motivation for changing behavior and finding a 'new direction' in life. One of the best opportunities and arenas for social inclusion and normalizing is the municipal, mainstream school system. For many young residents in care this arena has, however, proven to be a painful road to achieve acceptance and inclusion from peers as well as the professional community. We hope to show through this presentation that it is possible to succeed with inclusion when certain conditions are taken into consideration and specific methods are applied.
