Youth Empowerments

Evangelism & Discipleship

Reaching the unreached

Building Christ’s church throughout the world is our top priority. We do this by assisting ministries in the training of disciples for the end-time Revival and support them with the resources they need to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When Our Youth Thrive, Our Cities Thrive.

Global Youth Initiative sees the limitless potential of our youngest citizens, empowering and developing youth as leaders.

MENTORING

Preparing Youth as the Next Generation of Leaders by connecting them with Caring Mentoring Relationships grounded deeply in their local context and committed to driving the wheel of change. RATOLF works to address their cities' most pressing issues.

Below is just a sample of what our network is tackling: driving collaborative action to bring about real and lasting change.

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RATOLF are committed to serving their city based on its unique needs and assets. All members of the network commit to a time-tested process and way of seeking social and spiritual change.

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Guidance: Supporting Youth to Manage Their Careers

Addressed Problem: Enabling motivated and positive career choices

Career Choices

🎓 Career Choices Complexity

Youth live in a complex society where creating sustainable career opportunities requires guidance to support motivated, smart career choices and prevent early education leaving.

Prioritizing Education

🔍 Prioritizing Education

While general education may be prioritized, RATOLM pathways often fit students’ preferences better, providing tailored guidance to focus on personal skills and interests.

Navigating Options

📚 Navigating Options

RATOLM offers diverse vocational paths with high specialization. Guidance helps students navigate these options and manage complex application processes effectively.

Personalized Support

🤝 Personalized Support

Appropriate guidance focuses on students’ strengths, fostering a positive learning attitude and preventing feelings of inadequacy by promoting engaged, active education participation.

Informed Decisions

💼 Informed Decisions

Informed decisions about RATOLM programs contribute to successful learning paths by providing essential details about working conditions, program complexities, and job prospects.

Study Support

🔧 Study Support

Study support is key for success, helping students with specialization choices, workplace transitions, and networking into their occupational communities.

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Beneficiaries

  • Early leavers from education and training
  • Young people
  • Vulnerable groups

RATOLM schools can help foster smart career choices and prevent early school leaving by providing career education and guidance at an early stage and promoting the development of career management skills. Career education can help identify and engage young people, especially the ones at risk of early leaving. It may be particularly useful to prepare transitions and it can help learners who are struggling with the program they have just joined to continue successfully on their pathway or to find a new one.

Career guidance is also suitable to help reengage early leavers from education and training. Career guidance services, employment services or social services are well placed to provide career guidance to low-qualified young people.

Teaching: RATOLM schools may provide career education as part of the curriculum (e.g., a course on self-efficacy, CV, and presentation letters elaboration, etc.). It can be delivered either as a separate subject, as part of another subject, or as a cross-curricular subject

Mentoring: Guidance activities can be delivered by professional and engaged career guidance practitioners or other professionals (e.g., teachers) operating at learning providers, careers services, public employment services, or ‘one-stop-shops’ (e.g., youth (employment) services). Across the different activities, there are important considerations to bear in mind in order to effectively use career guidance to tackle early leaving. We offer some tips on how to address these considerations

Addressing the problem

Career guidance refers to a range of activities that aim to support individuals manage their careers and make educational, training and occupational choices match their personal characteristics (e.g. strengths, learning style, etc.). It includes:

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Assessing (e.g., through psychological tests or skills portfolios)

Sampling: providing work simulations or learning tasters to allow young people to experiment with career choices.

Teaching: RATOLM schools may provide career education as part of the curriculum (e.g., a course on self-efficacy, CV, and presentation letters elaboration, etc.). It can be delivered either as a separate subject, as part of another subject, or as a cross-curricular subject.

Mentoring: Guidance activities can be delivered by professional and engaged career guidance practitioners or other professionals (e.g., teachers) operating at learning providers, careers services, public employment services, or ‘one-stop-shops’ (e.g., youth (employment) services).

Across the different activities, there are important considerations to bear in mind in order to effectively use career guidance to tackle early leaving. We offer some tips on how to address these considerations: