New challenges and possibilities for society, traditional attitude, emphasising the importance of factual knowledge, does not fit the developing society and its activity needs. In educational institutions education, orientied to special skills, abilities and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, exausted its possibilities in attitude of modified requirements of activity system and the needs of society. Developing a social service system for children and families, the subject matter of students’ social favour needs becomes very topical and important while foreseeing the organisation forms, trends, modes and methods of social aid at school. Society and different state institutions, as well as education system, consider the needs of social aid at school to be a certain generally acknowled problem that has eventually to be solved. This problem is undesirable and menaces for the future in Lithuania. This conditioned the introduction of shifts of social educationists. The purpose of those educationists are to help to work productively with children and families which experience social risk, children with special needs, also to take up the activity of the prevention of alcoholism and drug-addiction as waell as healthy way of living and others. School in society is highly respected for developing functional skills, for the preparation for a professional career and forming the nationalism. While solving complicated maturity, social intergration, healthy way of living, social... [to full text]