1 Yitzhak Rabin Av
Afula
Israel
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The Center for Young Adults offer disadvantaged young adults the skills and information on which to build productive adult lives.
Services include counseling regarding higher education, vocational training and employment readiness as well as encourages community-building and leadership opportunities.
The project has clear goals, each with a specific objective:
1) To help young adults from Afula secure meaningful employment and encourage those with an academic background to develop marketable careers;
2) To market the Center to employers and local young adults as the regional resource for the creation of employment opportunities and manpower solutions;
3) To build parternships and establish joint activities with the private, nonprofit and government sectors to boost regional employment;
4) To integrate a wider cross-section of Afula's young adults into the city's social welfare activities and help them take a role in communal leadership; 5) To enable young adults to impact Afula's community and to develop forums to engage them in issues that are at the forefront of Israeli society
Among projects and activities the center creates one can find
1) Seminars on employment;
2) A program to help young people without an academic background develop employable skills;
3) Employment / Career Development Fair
4) A young parents leadership forum with seminars on general life-skills, awareness of various municipal leaders, and meetings to plan community projects;
5) Activities to strengthen communal identification;
6) The development of an Arab-Jewish alliance that will engage in various cultural and social welfare endeavors;
7) An ecology program;
8) A club for physically challenged young adults.
The center for young adults in Afula can contribute to the network in Israel by bringing the abilities and knowledge of the center to the "round table" of organizations that deal with the same target population that we deal with. Sharing knowledge, learning from each other, establish a meaningful relationship is important component for the center for young adults in Afula, for the young adults that sees the center as an address for their problems and issues and for the future advancement of those young adults.
The ALF Network offers the possibility for the Center for young adults to become more significant for young adults than today.
The connection and cooperation between organizations that involve in similar issues makes it easier for us to influence on the lives of young adults that have different needs and problems.
The ALF Network will permit us to be more efficient in young adults treatment and of course well connected to other organizations in the field.