There are several advantages in educating and training at-risk youth for jobs in today’s environments. The benefits will not only improve and change the status of many troubled youth, but will pave the way for the next generation of entrepreneurs, environmental developers, maintenance workers and construction builders that will aid in making the future world a better place to live. This article will explain a company’s personal agenda regarding their own business endeavors in an attempt to circulate social skills and techniques that are necessary for troubled youth, as well as, reveal the accomplishments and the many creative ideas developed by a friend.
This article will offer some discussions and ideas as to how a particular company intends to improve and change the status of many disadvantaged youth through concepts of social skills that are sometimes elusive and difficult to assess. There will be an unveiling of ideas of special apprenticeship programs and a sharing of other organizational information designed to stop the critical plight of ignorance and devastation engaging many young people.
The CEO/President of an industrial, environmental cleaning and pro-construction company has developed a somewhat unoriginal but interesting take in assuring success of many at-risk youth. The awareness that many behaviors occur within a scope of environmental events proves to be evident. The company in question has inducted a small segment of its company to the training, education and awareness, advocating social skills groups geared towards many of the troubled youth in today’s society; this segment is geared towards troubled and disadvantaged youth, in a non-profit capacity, that offers an affiliate core-training piece to the company in question. They pride themselves on the many activities, as well as, great ideas under girded by a commitment to workforce training and entrepreneurial opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, written in 2003, youths in the U.S. represent 26 % of the population and account for 50% of the victims of violent acts. Research shows that regular exposure to violence is associated with psychological difficulties, language and development skills associated with poor education and juvenile justice problems. According to (The U.S. Department of Education, 1997) and (Dodge, Pettit, Bates, 1997; Kendall-Tackett, Williams & Finkelhor, 1993) “exposure to community violence is twice more likely amongst African Americans than any other race.” Because of these statistics and known facts, the non-profit seeks funding and many other avenues in order to train and educate youth.
By providing life skills training before placing youths in jobs that are both contracted and affiliated with the proposed company in question., they are able to provide the tools needed for future success. The company aspires to help young people achieve self-esteem and confidence, while developing a sense of civic responsibility. Because many of the contracts require security background checks, most of the jobs geared for at-risk youth, are through small private owned businesses such as beauty salons, barbershops, carpet cleaning companies, auto shops, and small construction sites that are guided by apprenticeship programs.
One might ask what an apprentice is. In chapter 4 of the summary by T.H. Hawkins, under the caption, What apprentices are not, an apprentice is “a trade or occupation where formal training over a specified period is given and is allied to the provision of facilities for study leading to a City and Guilds, or qualification.”
According to Mr. Hawkins his summary entitled, What is an apprentice? ‘The term “apprenticeship” has lost the weight it had when it was originally conceived in the sixteenth century, and has now (…) become a blanket term. It covers: temporary and transient -assembly line work (…) and “genuine apprentices” – including craft/trade.’
The company’s goal in developing the company in question and its core-training piece,the non-profit, is to create and develop more of the exact jobs that Hawkins mentions, for at-risk youth that will offer the necessary, blue-collar jobs derived from yesterday’s hands-on skill set; these blue -collar jobs have vanished from vocational schools and many other learning environments.
There have been and are currently in place, organizations and programs with ideas and information designed to stop the devastation surrounding many youth. Through numerous out-reach programs, The company is able to reach many of the young people who would normally have fallen through the cracks and crevices that are often prevalent when faced with neediness and neglect. In the summary referencing the 21st Century Youth article, The Department of Labor introduced a program through the Employment and Training Administration’s office of Workforce Investment Division of Youth Services, and began a YouthBuild program in September of 2006. The program provided job training and education opportunities for at-risk youth. Much like what they do in Starr Touch Enterprises and Starr Youth, YouthBuild split their time between the construction sites and the classroom, where they encourage youth to achieve GED and high school diplomas.