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Professional Experience
Career Counsellor (Practicum Student)
Lutherwood Youth Employment Centre - Kitchener, Ontario - Canada(June 2007 - August 2007)
Responsibilities
- Worked closely with at-risk youth coaching them on life skills, job search and job maintenance skills as part of two unique programs targeted to youth facing the unique issues of poverty, foster-care and group-home living in the downtown Kitchener area
- Developed and delivered job search and employability related workshops to small groups of at-risk youth
- Developed and followed a Learning Plan with learning goals which were all achieved as part of my Practicum
Detailed Description
- In my first practicum experience, my focus was on learning, shadowing and making first steps into practically applying what I learned with clients. I was involved in two youth programs.
The first was called YouthAccess, a pre-employment program in a four week series of workshops which led to Job Development. Clientele was at-risk youth in the Kitchener area, many of whom had only grade 9 or 10 education, and had behavioural barriers to education. I ultimately successfully developed & delivered 3 workshops
The second program was HeadStart, a Life Skills program for at-risk youth who were not job-ready but who had the motivation to learn and attain that goal. HeadStart was often a lead-in to YouthAccess. As part of both programs, I worked with youth to create resumes and prepare for job interviews.
Company Description
- Lutherwood Youth Employment Centre is a collection of programs for youth 15-30 years of age in the Kitchener/ Waterloo Region. Their mission is to empower youth to build and sustain better and more hopeful futures through employment and housing resources, knowledge and support.
