Youthtown

YEP - Youth Employability Programme

The main focus of the programme is the development of the the seven key employability skills that employers say they feel are essential to make a successful start in the workforce and establish a career. 

The programme is composed of two main components:

• Skill-building workshops
• Work experience

The practical workshops are delivered by a skilled facilitator and are designed to draw on the student's ideas and experiences in order to position them at the centre of their own learning.

The voluntary work and work placements provide students with the opportunity to get, develop and practice their employability skills in a safe and structured context and connect with their local community.

The generic programme includes: 

• 18 - 20 hours of skill-building workshops
• 10 - 20 hours of community service
• 80 hours of work experience with a local business
• Skills based assessment

Youthtown

The school holidays, before, during and after school we do it all! We also run community events, project groups, workshops, youth hubs and camps and tramps too! We are an MSD-accredited OSCAR provider. We also carry an Outdoorsmark accreditation for our EOTC work nationwide.

Everything we do at Youthtown is designed using our Youthtown Curriculum. It's our guide, filter, inspiration and it's a living thing that grows every time we learn something new! In everything we do, we are intentional: we plan for outcomes, deliver our programmes for outcomes, and evaluate and review for outcomes. We operate in a way that is proactive, preventative and powerfully positive. Youthtown's safe practice is guided by the Code of Ethics For Youth Work in Aotearoa New Zealand.

We love the Mana Taiohi framework for those working towards youth development, and we celebrate the journey that the Native American and First Nations Circle of Courage model is undertaking through Lloyd Martin's work on the Pacific-centred "Circle of Mana".