Employment Opportunities About Youth4Jobs

Y4J SCALE & IMPACT IN 9 YEARS - LARGEST IN SOUTH ASIA

OUR CORPORATE PARTNERS

Inclusive Workforce | Motivate | Train | Place

EMPLOYED YOUTH.

EMPOWERED NATION.

MISSION

Partnering to co-create pioneeringsolutions for aninclusive workplace

VISIONEvery Youth With Disability Will Have Access to Education and

Employment Opportunities

About Youth4Jobs

PAN INDIA

Youth Connect25,300 Pwd Trained

70% Placed

Village Connect6.1 million households

750+Trained & Placed in

Jobs

COLLEGE CONNECT

650COMPANYCONNECT

Center of Inclusion

VI:Govt. Coaching

Youth4Jobs is South Asia’s largest organisation focussing on diversity & inclusion.

It skills less educated and educated youth with disabilities and places them in jobs across the country. Youth enrolled are with locomotor, speech and hearing impairment and with Visual impairment. Youth with Cerebral Palsy, Intellectual Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder are given Customised market-linked trainings.

It also offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution for companies which want to be inclusive, such as:

• Accessibility Audit

• Sensitization Workshops

• Sign Language Workshops

• Making HR Policy Inclusive

• Comprehensive Role Mapping

• Simple Workplace Adaptations

• Consultancies For Inclusion Including Strategy And 5 Year Plan

* Many of these services can also be done virtually.

“We have been very impressed in the way Youth4Jobs have gone about theirobjectives. The team has been very active and responsive every time we reach outto them. We are happy to be a part of this journey, where a number of studentswith disability are gainfully placed in various jobs, thus contributing to the financialindependence of these students. This has been a great journey so far and we wishthe Youth4Jobs Team to continue the great work that they do so well.”

Kesavan Balu

Vice President, KYC maintenance, Corporate Banking,

Barclays Global Service company Pvt Ltd

2011 : NCPEDP-Shell Helen Keller Award 2011

2012 : Fetzer Foundation USA Award for 2012-13

2014 : Innovation in Skill Development | Bihar Innovation Forum

2015 : Happiness Hall Of Fame

2015 : Sitaram Rao Livelihood Pan-Asian Case Study Competition

2015 : Rotary Award for Vocational Excellence

2015 : Women Super Achiever Award – World HRD Congress

2016 : Vodafone - “Women of Pure Wonder”

2016 : Americares Spirit of Humanity Award - Disability

2016 : Americares Spirit of Humanity Award - Livelihoods

2016 : Zero Project - Innovative Practices on Education and ICT

2017 : Zero project - Innovation Practice on Employment, Work &

Vocational Education & Training

2017 : National Award for Empowerment of Person with Disabilities

Divyangjan

2017 : NHRD SHOWCASE 2017 Award - Best Practices in HR

2018 : Capgemini Excellence in MIS

2018 : GoDiverse Award for Diversity and Inclusion

2019 : Qimpro Gold Standard 2019 – Education by QIMPRO

2019 : TV9 Nava Nakshatra Sanmanam by TV 9

2019 : MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge Asia Winner by MIT IIC, USA

2020 : GTSABERA AWARD 2020

2020 : CSR TIMES GOLD AWARDS

2021 : Zero Project - Innovative Practices in Employment

AWARDS

OUTCOMES

PROGRAM 1 - PROJECT PARIVARTAN (WISE)

WISE (Project Parivartan) is India’s largest Skill Training Program for PwDs. Weprovide them with 21st century portable skills like English Communication, SoftSkills, Life Skills, Digital Literacy and Orientation in industries with jobopportunities.

Alumni become

Changemakers in the villages

Mothers are largest word

of mouth ambassadors

Less Educated get Quality Jobs

Trainings provided at

Training Centers as

well as Online

Enrolment from ALL 36 States and

Union Territories

Trainees include

Widows and Single

Mothers with disabilities

30% girls with

Disabilities

SOME SECTORS WE WORK WITH

Hospitality Retail Banking & Finance BPO Textiles

IT/ITeS Travel & Tourism Telecom E-Commerce Manufacturing

PROGRAM 3 – Y4J VISI N

OUTCOMES

OUTCOMES

PROGRAM 2 - COLLEGE CONNECT

College Connect program skills Educated Youth with Disabilities in Collegesand those aspiring for better jobs.

Our innovation is setting up Smart Inclusion Centers (SICs) in Colleges /Universities

What it does: (Our Focus)

• Increases PwD Enrolment in Colleges

• Makes Educators Disability Confident

• Empowers Educators using Tech

• Assesses, Trains and Places Educated Youth

This Project is targeted towards youth with visual impairment with a focus onequipping them with skills needed to help them get eligible for HigherEducation, for appearing in Government Exams and helping them leadindependent lives. Youth4Jobs provides the training online and in our twotraining centers located in Hyderabad and Delhi. The coaching for the Govt.Exams is being scaled up currently.

What it does:

• Help youth with visual impairment to fulfil their aspirations for enrolling inhigher education by training them in English communication skills

• Enable them to learn computers using assistive technology (software) likeJaws/NVDA - Digital literacy is the heart of the VI training

• Coaches them for government jobs by giving them holistic trainings inEnglish, computers, coding, maths & reasoning, and general knowledge.

• Counsel the youth to accept, adjust, cope and set goals for theirdevelopment

• Coach them for passing their 10th and 12th grade examinations. Held twicea year as Open School Exams

• Sensitise companies by having interactions/mentorship/volunteer programwith VI youth

BENEFITS TO YOUTH WITH

VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Increased Enrolment in

Higher Education

Increased Rate of Govt. Entrance Exam Clearance

Increased Aspiration and

Motivation

Sustained Livelihood

Digital Literacy

Companies see Increased

Awareness and Sensitisation

Increased Enrolment

by 10%

Placements Increased by 400% in our

partner Colleges

Increased Career

Prospects

Quality Jobs

PROGRAM 4 - CORPORATE CONNECT

It supports WISE and College Connect by reaching out to companies actively tohelp them begin or strengthen their journey of inclusion.

This program predominantly works to create awareness and build an inclusivecorporate world. Youth4Jobs works closely with 650+ companies of which 200are first time hirers of disability. The mantra is “Hire youth with disabilitybecause it makes business sense”. Once the company experiences the benefit ofhiring, inclusion gets mainstreamed within the organization.

OUTCOMESBENEFITS TO COMPANIES

HIRING PwDs

Mandated by Govt. (RPwD

Act 2016)

Increased Productivity,

Reduced Attrition

Boosting Companies’ Bottom Line

Company becomes a

Great Place to Work

Increased Innovation

Increased Goodwill;

Builds Brand

PROGRAM 5 - Y4J CENTER OF INCLUSION

1. “THE INCLUSION JOURNEY : Integrating Persons withDisabilities in the Hospitality and Quick ServiceRestaurant Sector in India”, White paper byYouth4Jobs.

2. “Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in HigherEducation”, White Paper by Youth4Jobs and Deloitte.

3. ILO Report : Persons With Disability & The IndianLabour Market: Challenges And Opportunities

4. “Road to Inclusion – Integrating PwDs inOrganizations” White Paper by Y4J and BostonConsulting Group (BCG), commissioned by SCPwD(Sector Skills Council of Persons with Disability),Government of India

5. “The Inclusion Journey: Integrating PwDs in the BFSIsector”, White Paper by Youth4Jobs with BSE Institute& BFSI SSC (Sector Skills Council)

Cutting-edge Knowledge is the Key to advancement ofunderstanding the Disability Sector. Y4J does studieswhich are released by Senior Govt. Officials anddisseminated widely to influence policy.

Y4J adopted a vernacular Government Blind Girls’ School, where a holistic model of transformation & education has completely changed the girls’ lives.

PROGRAM 61. GOVT. GIRLS’ BLIND SCHOOL2. GOVT SCHOOL FOR SPEECH AND HEARING IMPAIRED

Digital LiteracyA computer lab was set up and the girls

were taught screen reading software

like JAWS.

Social Skills

Including grooming,

communication and safety skills.

OUT-OF-BOX ACTIVITIES

To kindle the spirit of “I Can”, Youth4Jobs did these unimaginable camps:

• Nature Walk • Textile Block Printing • Art & Clay Camps

• Visit to Ramoji Film Nagar • Visit to the Water Park • Heritage Walk

OUTCOMES

Reduces School

Dropouts

Improves English

Education

Improves Digital

Literacy

Increase Enrolment into Higher Education

Meera Shenoy has over a decade experience in market- linked vocationalskilling of rural, tribal and disabled youth from underprivileged families. Sheis considered a pioneer in the country in this field and uniquely works onpolicy and grassroot projects.

She has demonstrated for the country twice, a model for skilling rural youthfrom villages and now youth with disabilities, and linking them to qualityjobs.

She has had two stints with the Government in senior positions. She wasExecutive Director of EGMM, the country’s first job mission for rural andtribal youth, which she helped set up from scratch in 2004. Her nextposition was to support the Office of the Chairman, NSDA.

OUR FOUNDER

E: [email protected]

Meera Shenoy

She is on the Governing Council of SCPwD (Sector council for Persons with disabilities) and the CIICommittee on Special Abilities. She was one of the few Indians to be invited to speak at theprestigious TEDxBerkeley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp7JfZDJPWo)

Youth4Jobs FoundationPlot 135, Avenue 2, Road No. 13, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad,

Telangana, India – (500034)

Website: www.youth4jobs.orgE-Mail: [email protected]

For Enquiries Contact:• Sameer Nair | M: +91 91212 95240 | [email protected]• Ramesh Duraikannan | M: +91 63820 69647 | [email protected]

• Silky Sehdev | M: +91 85888 84142 | [email protected]

This mission formed the template of Government of India Skilling Programme for Rural Youth. Shehas also consulted with the World Bank across South Asia and was senior advisor UNDP for skillingand unemployment.

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