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
