SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH
NEET youth (Youth who are Not in Education, Employment or Training) is on the rise in India. A 2019 UN study found that more than 50% of Indian youth are not on track to have the education and skills necessary for employment by 2030. Another category of youth is the more well-to-do youth who have access to resources for education, employment and training, but little or no exposure to social realities other than theirs. The need of the hour is to create opportunities that enable and empower all youth to make important and satisfying choices related to their lives. This is what we aim to achieve through our academic courses, livelihood workshops and internships for adolescents and youth.
HOLA Tarang
A fragile part of this NEET population is youth who come out the 9000+
ChildCare Institutions (CCIs) in the country. These are youth who had been orphaned, abandoned, sexually abused, trafficked, victims of child marriage etc. Almost half of such children, once they become young adults, fail to find paid work.
Headstreams has been working with Government CCIs for the past four years. Our interventions consist of skill development and life skills training through a self-directed learning and guided play methodology. We continue to facilitate sessions 4 times a week and have covered 2000+ girls and boys aged 6-18 yrs of age in three Homes in Bengaluru. Our intervention also includes a 10-day experiential entrepreneurship course that seeks to introduce entrepreneurial skills and mindsets to the children.
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Youth Livelihood Workshops
Workshops
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This year, Headstreams is piloting a Youth Livelihood Workshop series for children in both Government and private CCIs. The purpose of these workshops is to enable adolescents and youth gain self-employable skills and a knowledge of the basics of entrepreneurship. The hope is that this exposure would help adolescents and youth pick up skills that they can turn to and monetise after they leave the CCIs, as and when they need to.
As a long-term vision, Headstreams hopes to establish a year-long internship for youth from CCIs, so they can learn employable skills and be mentored to set up their own self-sustaining enterprises.
The vision is that this helps the youth become not only financially secure but also job creators, paying forward the learnings and opportunities they will receive.
B.Voc. Certificate Course
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Bachelor’s in Vocational Education (B.Voc.) in Software Development.
Headstreams offers a Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development. This programme is conducted in association with Tata Institute of Social Sciences – School of Vocational Education (TISS – SVE).
It is a three year programme recognised by UGC and the certification is awarded by Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Participants are mentored and given practical work exposure by employees of TCS.This course is offered to students who have completed 12th standard or equivalent. The programme is designed for rural youth who are seeking a professional degree to enhance their skills and improve their socio – economic conditions.
This course is particularly useful for students aspiring to pursue careers in Software, Application Designing, Web Designing or in other technology related areas.
The USP of the B.Voc. model is the exploratory learning approach that is used in the sessions and its focus is on solving real world problems as part of the work – integrated model.
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Academic Courses
Courses
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Academic Courses
Headstreams offers PG Diploma and Certificate courses in play and human development, for post-graduate and undergraduate students in Bengaluru. Having begun in 2015-16, these courses span 90 to 120-hours of theory and practical sessions (with children who are part of various Headstreams programs). Due to pandemic restrictions, the course was adapted as a self-directed online course, with live online practical sessions. These courses are offered in collaboration with Snehadhara Foundation, Bengaluru.
In addition, Headstreams also does short Play and Human Development, Play Therapy and Play Design workshops with colleges on-demand around the country.