Everyone Wins With Exploring

Youth Benefits

• Scholarship opportunities
• Interest in continual education
• Career information; insight into future vocation
• Positive alternative to negative youth activities, such as drug abuse and involvement with gangs
• Sense of acceptance and belonging
• Safe environment for adult-like activities
• Opportunities to participate in practical, real, and meaningful hands-on experiences
• New career and personal skills
• Opportunities to develop leadership skills
• Service to others

Employee Benefits

• Greater job awareness
• Developing leadership and problem solving skills
• Re-evaluating ethical and moral values
• Opportunity for greater community involvement
• Respect from youth and community
• Identification as appropriate adult role models
• Enhancing communication, planning, and program development skills
• Greater commitment to service
• Developing interpersonal skills used in the workplace and elsewhere