Vulnerable young people: Job and life skills

Date of commencement of program execution: April 2017
Expected Program Completion Date: September 2017


The following report sets out the progress of the project in question, covering the months of April - September 2017.
During this period, 14 programs were developed in public secondary schools in the City of Buenos Aires. The programs consisted of two meetings of 3 hours each. About 280 young people participated in the project.
The Workshops are Reflection coordinated by professionals who will address issues related to the world of work, such as readiness to work as a team, adoption of proactive attitudes, responsibility to the task, planning, division of labor, setting schedules.
We also worked deeplyon family imaginary, personal, institutional, etc.
Design of unique strategies:
Programs developed in order to reach the active participation of young people in the various activities proposed, aimed at young people being able to build a work project, where their own desires and interests have a privileged place.
Work on self-diagnosis: self-perception, recognition of skills, abilities, attitudes and skills. Detection of areas that require further consolidation or development.
Our interest lies in the concrete possibility of expanding the opportunities for development and growth of young people in situations of social vulnerability and the promotion of equal opportunities in the construction of educational and work projects.
The FOP conducts supervisory meetings to which our team assists and that gives us the possibility to work on the emergents of the group process, as well as share and socialize methodologies and tools.
The programs we develop at the Foundation aim to reach the active participation of young people in the various activities proposed so that they themselves are able to build a work project.
We work on self-diagnosis: self-perception, recognition of skills, abilities, attitudes and skills. Detection of areas that require further consolidation or development.
The dynamics and contents of the workshops are intended to elucidate the juvenile subjectivities and to intervene over them with respect to work as a mode of social bond, as a way of expanding the living space.