Youth Services Program
The Youth Services Program is Funded by the Chicago Department of Human Services, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, the Albert J. Speh, Jr. and Claire R. Speh Foundation and Home Of Life Community Development Corporation.
The Home of Life Youth Services Initiative Program seeks to improve and support positive changes within our communities by striving to achieve the following goals:
1. Improve youth and family well being by providing services such as
a) After school activities including tutoring
b) Workshops and family nights that promote school partnerships
c) Community workshops on planning and decision making
2. To support systematic changes, with youth involvement, designed to improve collaboration, coordination and resource sharing between community agencies. The Youth Services Initiative Program impacts the community by extending a comprehensive treatment and prevention strategy that seeks to effect the lives of the very young and continues to address the needs of the pre-adult age group.
The Youth Services Initiative Program has three service components; After-School activities including Tutoring, Financial Services Job Training and Placement and Violence Prevention.
Through our strategic partnerships we have on-going development and implementation of programs in the form of needs assessments, surveys, interview advisory board participation, etc. We have programs for designed to improve Interpersonal and Social Development through the use of workshops and/or training on cognitive development skills, problem solving, reasoning skills, social skills, conflict resolution, violence prevention, drug abuse prevention, gang prevention and gang intervention.
The program best serves the unskilled and unemployed young adults, the youth (14 and older) who are thinking of summer and after school employment and after school development skills. We have a job training and placement program in place that is certified with the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development. This program is for individuals who are seeking job placement or looking for career changes or are interested in the Financial Industry. Our New Beginning program targets individuals that do not fall under the traditional components of the other programs, these individual might be disabled, homeless, have substance abuse, ex-offenders, students that have academic issues and so forth. And for parents who are seeking employment and need assistance with Childcare or Daycare, Home of Life has a Childcare and Daycare program available for them.
The Youth Services Initiative Program will provide other workforce development strategies such as:
· Educational skills and practical experiences that are relevant to the local job market, particularly in high skills/high wage industries such as financial services, bank teller, real estate, construction.
· Development as well as a full array of services to local businesses.
· Developing post placement and retention services which accommodate employed participant work schedules and address career path progression.
· Developing activities which offer participants clear and meaningful connections between academic and occupational learning.
· Providing activities and experiences which promote leadership development and enable participants to effectively negotiate situations arising in the workplace.
· Developing a comprehensive outreach and recruitment system which highlights careers as the outcome for the program.
· Developing pro-active follow-up activities that highlight the successes of completers and layout upcoming goals and new challenges.
Begin making a difference and call 773-626-8655
info@homeoflife.org