YWCA Youth Employment Services

Agency Report
Liz
University of Phoenix
Field Experience 1/ BSHS 341
Group SC07BHS08
April 10, 2008

Agency Report YWCA Youth Employment Services is a non-profit organization program designed to provide youths with employment services. They serve youths that are between the ages of 14 through 22. The YWCA Y.E.S program opens their doors to anyone that walks in through their doors, no matter what their gender or ethnicity is. The purpose and goal of the Y.E.S program is to assist the youth to obtain employment by providing them the tools they need, there for, Y.E.S will promote pride, dignity, and self worth to the youths. To assist the youth to obtain employment Y.E.S provides the youths with resume building, interview skills,
For interviewing skills Y.E.S provides the clients with a pamphlet of what they can expect for a job interview. This pamphlet contains information on what to wear for a job interview, what to take and what not to take, and the kind of questions that are commonly asked by interviewers. The clients are also given an opportunity to practice and experience an interview through a mock interview provided in the office of Y.E.S. If the client chooses to start or work on their resume, the Y.E.S assists the client on resume building. Y.E.S provides their clients with a guide for resume building, where it contains information for clients to start or improve their resume. Now a day, there are different ways to apply for a job, and Y.E.S assist their clients by giving them information on how to fill out a job application as well as assist them to fill it out, whether one has to fill out an
Per month Y.E.S provides their services to around 50 to 70 youths. In January of 2008, 69 youths were served by Y.E.S and 42 of those youths served applied to Y.E.S for the first time (Youth Employment Services January 2008 Statistics). Y.E.S opens their doors to anyone who comes in through their doors, no matter of their gender, ethnicity, or economic status. From the Y.E.S January 2008 statistics out of the 42 new applicants for the Y.E.S 26 youths were male and 16 were female; ethnicity was 64% Mexican, 21% other/ Hispanic Latino, 7% White, 7% Asian American, and 2% other Non Hispanic Latino; the economic status of these youths range 38% were low income, 33% moderate income, 12% extremely low income, and 10% other