Host an intern.
We place young adults who have been bullied into internships with companies willing to give them a first start. Many arrive with good grades, no network, and no confidence that anyone would hire them. The placement changes the second two more than the first.
What we are asking for.
A real placement with real work. Not a shadowing week, and not a title with nothing under it. Something with a deliverable at the end, however small, so the intern leaves with a thing they made and a person who can speak to how they made it.
Paid is better and we will say so plainly. Where a paid placement is not possible, tell us, because for some of these young people an unpaid opportunity is still the only door that has opened.
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Six weeks or longer. Shorter than that rarely gives anyone enough to point at.
What we do
Screening, matching, and a check-in partway through with both of you.
What you do
Name a supervisor, give real work, and be willing to serve as a reference afterward.
Fit
Any industry. Trades, professional services, media, hospitality, logistics.
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Some of these young people will be quiet for the first week. That is usually not disinterest, it is a habit built over years of being told to take up less room. Most of them come out of it once they are given something specific to own.
What you are contributing is not charity. You are contributing a reference, a line on a resume, and evidence that someone thought they were worth the time. Those three things are what a network is, and they arrived at adulthood without one.