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30NCGE NEWS Winter 2011Non-FormalCareer Management Skills and the Youthreach ModelIf you access the Youthreach website and look at the ethos for this initiative, you will discover a focus on the holistic development of the individual. There is an emphasis on a safe, structured and challenging environment. Programmes focus on independence and integration. Programmes offer a cross-disciplinary curricular objective including communication skills development and health and safety awareness. There is a general emphasis on achievement rather than failure. Appropriate assessment and certification are included. There is an in-built flexibility and the programme duration is based on need rather than time. The programme is intended to facilitate young people in returning to learning and preparing for employment and adult life. Youthreach objectives include personal and social development and increased self-esteem. Promotion of independence, personal autonomy, active citizenship and a pattern of lifelong learning are key concepts. There is a focus on integration into further education and training opportunities and the labour market. Social inclusion is a primary objective. Youthreach offers a flexible programme of integrated general education, vocational training and work experience. Learners set personal and educational goals with a view to increasing self-esteem, skill and knowledge base and employability. Essential course elements include Personal and Social Development, Vocational Skills and Communications Skills. Within the National Framework of Qualifications, students undertake FETAC awards in a range of disciplines including: communications, maths and computer skills. This allows students to progress through the education system, thus allowing the development of career opportunities. The Youthreach process involves personal development and exploration; identification of needs, interests and capacities; setting learning goals; sampling general vocational skills; development of specific aptitudes; work experience and literacy and numeracy development. In many ways, what Youthreach attempts to attain mirrors many of the concepts within Career Management Skills (CMS) as outlined in the report on the work European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) 2008-2010 http://ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/english/publications/elgpn-reportThe definition of Career Management Skills within the ELGPN Report is as follows:-Career management skills refer to a whole range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals and groups to gather, analyse, synthesise and organise self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions.Career management skills should start from a strengths/abilities view of the individual (not a deficit view) according to the Report which mirrors Youthreach's emphasis on achievement rather than failure. The ELGPN's understanding of