Young Adults Programme
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The young adult group is divided into different groups, depending on the level of learner independence:
Life skills and employment group
Learners in this group receive intensive life-skills training to ensure that they reach the maximum level of independence and are included in a variety of employment settings. To name a few at present we have learners doing job sampling at SPAR, a florist, pre-schools, a music shop and caterers and also learners working at a foundry. Our aim is for all these learners to obtain meaningful, full-time, paid employment in the open labour market.
Small business group
The small business group is for learners who are new in our program and need intensive work ethics and life skill training before they can be considered as a candidate for the open labour market or a group of young people who would always need facilitation even in the open labour market. They will for example be a small group of young adults with a facilitator at a small factory or business.
Skills arts and leisure group
The Skills, arts and leisure group is for learners with more severe disabilities, who will not, due to the severity of their disabilities, be able to obtain employment in the open labour market. In future we would like to introduce a tea garden, party venue and a variety of small craft businesses, for which there is great scope in Pretoria, in order to provide a place for these young adults to learn new skills and become meaningfully employed.