District based CLD Network
About District Based CLD Network
The “District Based CLD Network” aims to connect different stakeholders in the community (including government departments, social welfare organizations, the business sector, academia, parents, and young people) to gather strength and enhance the attention and support for youth career development within the region. The goal is to create a synergistic effect through the co-construction of stakeholders, generating more resources, opportunities, and networks (RON) for youth career development, and building an enabling environment for career development, thereby strengthening youth empowerment.
District Based CLD Network Map
Activities
CLD Ambassador Training
By recruiting and nurturing young people to become “Career Development Ambassadors”, the initiative offers internship programs, training, and community career development activities to deepen the ambassadors’ self-awareness and understanding of career development concepts, encouraging them to become “promoters”. At the same time, integrating the CLAP@JC Career Development Framework, and using intervention tools such as VASK and CV360®, young people are encouraged to recognize their personal characteristics, uncover their potential abilities, and explore future pathways.
Job Shadowing And
The program invites founders and executives from various businesses to become mentors for young people. Through training, these mentors will gain a better understanding of youth culture, values, and aspirations, as well as a deeper knowledge of the CLAP@JC career development concepts, framework, and tools. By arranging individual meetings, workshops, and work experiences between mentors and young people, the initiative aims to provide early exposure to the working world. This helps young people systematically organize their “extended work” experiences and further encourages stakeholders from all sectors to collaboratively create a community environment conducive to youth career development.
Job Tasting Programme
Invite mentors to use the CLAP@JC framework and a shared career development language to share their career journey stories, industry information, and introduce the relevant knowledge and skills required (VASK). By offering career-related experiential activities, the initiative helps young people understand themselves, uncover their personal traits, redefine “success” and “work experience”, broaden their horizons and career development imagination.
Industry Sharing Example
(Business Partners/Employers)
Speaker Briefing
(Business Partners/Employers)
ART X MENTAL WELLNESS X CLD
This project is aimed at young people who have needs in career development and mental health, as well as an interest in the arts.
It connects 9 youth service units in the community to reach out to young people from a community-based approach. Through diverse artistic methods, it focuses on the growth needs of young people, using social-emotional learning to enhance the cognitive management and stabilization of emotions. By strengthening internal and external protective factors for youth, it enhances their resilience, builds a sense of psychological safety, and helps them face adversity.
Through the awareness brought by art therapy, it allows young people to grasp their internal needs, recognize their personal interests and strengths, strengthen their life motivation, ignite their hope and dreams for the future, and open up diverse pathways for the positive development of youth growth, expanding their life experiences.
The project allows young people to experience the “career development” process, obtain appropriate support and training services, discover their personal interests, abilities, and career aspirations, and cultivate core career development competencies. This enables them to make preliminary decisions about their career and life paths, establish a positive career identity, and develop their desired life aspirations.
District Based CLD Network – Case Sharing
Career development is essential for the growth of every young person. With the assistance of various stakeholders in the community, it is important to create an environment where their diverse potential can flourish. In response to this, CLAP@JC is committed to establishing a “District Based CLD Network” in different areas of Hong Kong. By connecting various stakeholders in the community, we aim to enhance awareness of youth career development and provide opportunities and platforms to support young people’s career growth, nurturing the next generation.
“District Based CLD Network – Case Sharing” will share the intervention methods employed in seven different regions, tailored to their specific circumstances. Although these methods are still in the experimental phase, they are designed to create an environment that allows young people to unleash their diverse potential and promote their career development.