Prevention through
work readiness
Reducing vulnerability by connecting the next generation to jobs
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Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP)
Research shows that human trafficking is best fought through prevention. The Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) is designed to strengthen our most vulnerable community members through a trauma-informed, emotionally intelligent, and empowering work readiness and placement experience offered to at-risk youth ages 14-24 in the Houston, Texas area.
We provide six weeks of hybrid coaching through the essentials of work readiness and professionalism followed by a career fair curated towards the cohort's interests where participants will test their soft-skills while navigating the fair. We will assist participants in securing paid employment for the next six weeks and maintaining parallel mentorship.
The YEP Experience
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Learning Tracks
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Work Readiness
Teaching the essential skills necessary for entering the workforce—like interviewing, conflict resolution, team work, and emotional intelligence—through online and in-person sessions that spark action and reflection
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Trade Training
Preparing participants to understand what the most common trades are and the expectations of those trades, including working conditions, company values, appropriate dress and equipment
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Entrepreneurship
Participants will learn the fundamentals of running a business and will have the opportunity to accelerate their own business idea into reality by incorporating with the guidance of MiCreate
Enrollment - Open for Partnership
In its current design, YEP partners with youth organizations to enroll qualifying classes of cohorts.
Youth who are not enrolled in school; are experiencing homelessness, foster care, or unemployment; or identify as a person of color, LGBTQ+, non-binary, or gender non-confirming are at greatest risk of trafficking.
If you are a community leader who engages, mentors, or provides case management for youth groups experiencing these vulnerabilities, contact davina@micreate.org to get started on bringing the YEP experience to them.
Current Cohort Partners
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The Youth Entrepreneurship Program is made possible by the coaches who share their time and expertise at no cost.
Thank you to our grantors and sponsors:
Vision Galveston / 2022 Philanthropitch Competition
United Way of Greater Houston / Out-2-Learn Grant
Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston
Walmart Foundation Community Grants
Thank you to our curriculum material donors:
David Richo / How To Be An Adult In Relationships
Sonya Renee Taylor / The Body is Not an Apology
Daniel Goleman / Emotional Intelligence