(event) Ground Hog Job Shadow Day

[Dan Bassill]

At the www.tutormentorconnection.org we show a chart that looks like a wheel. The "hub" represents a child.  It shows a timeline that starts on the left with preschool and ends on the right with "career".  Above the timeline is a circle that represents the 9-3pm time each day a child spends in school.  Below the time line are two circles, representing the 3-5pm hours and after 5pm hours.

The spokes lead out to each of the 16 career tracks which youth might aspire to (retailing, finance, education, health care, arts/culture/religion, etc).

Our goal is to recruit mentors from each of these spokes to become part of an on-going process that exposes youth to more career aspirations than a poverty neighborhood normally offers, and who become people who are advocates, coaches, tutors, (and funders) of programs and schools where the mentors and youth connect.

It is the on-going exposure to various career opportunities which influence youth.  The more choices, the more likely one will match a child's natural talent and expectations. In poverty areas there are too few positive choces and too many negative career paths.

In such a process, we'd have job shadowding every day, not just one day a year.

Dan Bassill
President
Cabrini Connections
Tutor/Mentor Connection
Chicago

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