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COMMUNITY

HELPING ANY WAY WE CAN
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HAWWC Helping Any Way We Can Nonprofit Organization is a fiscal sponsored 501(C)(3) non-profit organization that promotes sustainable communities, encourages the education system and to help young adults in their transition to adulthood. Youth Employability Programs and Mentorship in Petersburg Virginia which will be our focus. The main problem is through repeated failures in the classroom and the development of destructive habits, at-risk young people have lost faith in the possibilities that await them if they are successful in putting their lives together.  HAWWC Helping Any Way We Can Nonprofit Organization goals are to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills and reassert a sense of hope in the future. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the commitment to follow through on the path of adulthood with a sense of pride and accomplishment. To accomplish this goal young people must be in a caring inclusive learning environment that promotes their best effort and reinforce personal respect. HAWWC Helping Any Way We Can Nonprofit Organization is a program that is in direct response to the growing number of young people that are falling through the cracks at school or are already entangled with the juvenile court systems.  This program will pair a youth with a mentor for 12 months. During that time the two will participate in weekly planned activities to strengthen the relationship between the two and improve the young persons confidence and hopefulness.  Our program will have continuous training throughout the year for our mentors and they will participate in monthly meetings to report the young person’s progress. This will give each individual the opportunity to get professional exposure and develop edifying communication techniques. Our program will train in high quality career preparation services and offers personalized job placement through an interactive 7-week workshop.  

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The program will target youth between the ages of 16-24 who are at risk of dropping out of school or have dropped out of the formal educational system, are unemployed or employed in precarious conditions, and are living in poverty in specific geographic locations. Many of them live in communities that are highly prone to violence or are vulnerable to recruitment by gangs or organized crime groups.

 

The program will be implemented using suitable training spaces available in each community, such as local community centers, to make it as accessible as possible for the youth participants. HAWWC will work with the team of facilitators, counselors and mentors assigned to each community to promote the project in these communities and select youth participants through a rigorous three week application and interview process. Youth will be recruited to participate in a particular community location. This is considered the ideal size range for an effective training and HAWWC staff will train several groups of youth at the same time but in different locations.

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The team of facilitators, counselors and mentors will serve as a strong support for each young person. While the youth are still in the training workshop, the counselors will scope the local job market research and source potential job opportunities that match the youth beneficiaries' skills and interests. Given the limited educational attainment of the youth beneficiaries, decent entry-level positions, with some growth potential and benefits will be targeted. Upon graduation, youth will begin to receive four months of personalized job placement guidance and support from their assigned mentor. Youth will be introduced to local employers through a job fair as well as through direct connections to job opportunities that the mentors and counselors have identified. Over the four months, the counselors will help the young people prepare for their interviews and follow up with them to provide mentoring and advice after they have been placed in jobs.

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HAWWC will require the youth  to have completed monthly and quarterly reports to evaluate the progress and confirm that the participant population is the focus of the program. The team in charge of getting this information will pass out surveys that will include the following questions:

 

  1. What do you want to get out of this program by the time you finish?

  2. In what fields of work are you most interested?

  3. Has your time with us been productive?

  4. Do you feel like you’ve learned edifying skills and techniques?

  5. Have you been exposed in the professional environment enough? How?

  6. Are you proud to be part of this program?

  7. Would you recommend this program to others?

 

The information provided in these reports will help HAWWC fully understand and appreciate the effort and will include the prevailing methods that will act on developing youth leaders, and their recruitment, the success and application of the workshops, partnerships achieved through job fairs and conventions, and the efforts of the program to ensure participants success.

 

The surveys will help maximize the integrity of the program trainees, leaders and participants. There will be a survey before the program to fully understand what the participants wish to accomplish by the end of the program. The survey at the end will ensure that program leadership has accomplished their goals for the participant population. HAWWC Nonprofit will review results and after gathering all information they will send them right over to HAWWC to communicate results.

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