secondchance programmes offer a flexible learning environment often with a residential component that is well adapted to early school leavers needs and designed to help them back into education probably the largest residential secondchance programme is the us job corps which has been operating since it targets disadvantaged youth up to age and includes academic tuition vocational training counselling social skills training job placements and also health care oecd e in australia a smallerscale secondchance programme is offered through the socalled youth foyers of which there are currently across the country oecd a