Young Adults
Embrace opportunities for tutoring, employment, leadership, mentoring, and more to shape your path to success. Unlock the potential of Young Adult Development Services.
Shaping Your Path to a Bright Future
Traditional employment and young adult development services provide valuable guidance for individuals, empowering them to foster positive relationships with responsible adults and peers. These services encourage the exploration of community service opportunities, nurturing a sense of responsibility and civic engagement. Moreover, they focus on cultivating essential leadership skills, enabling young adults to become confident and effective community leaders.
Empowering Youth Through Tailored Support
Traditional employment and young adult development services provide valuable guidance for individuals, empowering them to foster positive relationships with responsible adults and peers. These services encourage the exploration of community service opportunities, nurturing a sense of responsibility and civic engagement. Moreover, they focus on cultivating essential leadership skills, enabling young adults to become confident and effective community leaders.
As part of these comprehensive services, each young person undergoes a skills assessment to identify their strengths and areas for growth. This personalized approach ensures that every individual receives tailored support, addressing their unique needs and aspirations. Engaging in activities designed to foster personal and professional development, young adults are equipped with the tools they need to thrive in various aspects of their lives. Through these transformative experiences, they become ready to embrace challenges, make meaningful contributions to society, and forge their paths toward a successful future.
Young Adult Services
Young adult services may include the following opportunities:
- Tutoring and study skills training
- Alternative secondary school
- Summer employment opportunities
- Paid and unpaid work experiences, including internships and job shadowing
- Occupational skill training
- Leadership development
- Comprehensive guidance and counseling
- Supportive services
- Adult mentoring
- Follow-up services
- Financial literacy education
- Entrepreneurial skills training
- Labor market and employment information
- Activities to help prepare for training and education
Vocational Growth for Young Adults
Job Corps
Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24. Job Corps’ mission is to help young people improve the quality of their lives through vocational and academic training aimed at gainful employment and career pathways.
NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
In partnership with North Carolina’s educators, the NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS) provides Pre-Employment Transition Services at no cost to students eligible for special education-related services. Vocational Rehabilitation also provides more intensive case management services to help young people with disabilities explore career options, develop goals for their future and overcome challenges they may face.
Iredell County Resources
NCWorks Career Center - Mooresville NextGen Services
Tania Jones, Career Development Specialist
NCWorks Career Center - Statesville NextGen Services
Tania Jones, Career Development Specialist
I-CARE, Inc.
Job Corps
Wigena Tirado, Admissions Counselor