For youth in vulnerable life situations, pathways to employment can bechallenging, suggesting the need for coordinated services. The aim ofthis review is to explore the existing research on coordinated servicesfor youth in vulnerable life situations. Considering the heterogenousnature of the literature, we adopted a scoping review methodology. Weselected works from a base of 92 papers on youth, coordinated services,and pathways to work that were published in English during the periodof 1990–2018. Additionally, to identify research streams, we performeda bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer to create network maps basedon shared terms in the papers’ titles and abstracts. The synthesisedfindings show two streams of research that we refer to by the followingnarrative titles: (1) ‘Enabling transition to adulthood for youth withdisabilities or severe health problems’, and (2) ‘Preventing the socialexclusion of youth at risk’. The first stream seems to represent a moreestablished area(s) of research, while the second stream appears to bemore fragmented. The life situations of the youth in both streams,however, overlap, indicating possibilities for knowledge exchange, suchas social workers engaging in policy practices and advancing effortstowards enacting system changes.