Joana Frimer
Rua Carlos da Maia 24 RC
1350-068 Lisboa
Portugal
- Youth and education
I work with teenagers and young adults in the educational and professional counselling area. I will be forming my association soon together with a psychologist and a wider team of 9 people (which will include teenagers and young adults) design projects for teens in vulnerable communities (minorities, migrants and economically challenged teens). My goal is to empower these communities through education and creating access to better job opportunities. As for funding, we will be applying to national and international programmes which match our projects’ goals. The modalities of action will be projects which focus on the acquisition of formal competencies and work on hard and soft skills and tools which promote them academically and professionally (CVs, motivational letters, interview skills); we also plan to organize workshops which focus on hard and soft skills that enhance their professional profile. Lastly, youth exchange and internship opportunities are very much in our plan of action.
To empower teenagers and young people through education and access to better job opportunities and according to their vocation.
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My objectives for teenagers and young adults are:
- To help them design a life plan that motivates them.
- To create a strong professional profile that leads to a more qualified job opportunities that allow for a better quality of life.
- To promote at risk teenagers to continue their formal education and prevent drop out.
- To promote successful social integration.
- To address the person’s school or academic path
- To lead beneficiaries to identify Strengths and Weaknesses (hard and Soft, experience, complementary courses)
- To orient the design of a plan to cover those weaknesses and create a strong profile
- Develop presentation tools (CV, motivational letters, portfolio…)
- Active search principles for courses, internships, jobs and voluntary work
- Preparation for interviews
- Create workshops and specialized programmes for argumentation and writing.
The network provides some of the programmes that constitute opportunities for academic and personal development for the communities I work with, allowing for intercultural dialogue that benefits them. I can also find synergies between my work and other fellow associations and create programmes together which include this academic and professional counselling area where it is needed to promote a better quality of life and social integration for these vulnerable communities.
Because I fully identify with the Foundation's principles and most of my work is starting (and will continue to be) with teenagers and young adults from vulnerable communities (migrants, low income families...).
