Outreach Consultation Support: Connecting Communities and Schools (Career Support)

FY2025 — Consultation Support for Teenagers Facing Difficulties

Project Purpose

To strengthen the support system for students identified by schools as facing difficulties and needing connections to community support organizations, by building regional support networks and providing proactive outreach consultation.

Activities

Upon request from schools, provide information and advice, and with the consent of students and parents, conduct direct interviews to deliver necessary support
Outreach consultation workers regularly visit schools to share information about students who need support
Simultaneously build networks with community support organizations

Education × Welfare: Project Overview

Schools

Students Support recipients
SSW School Social Workers
Counseling Co. Educational Counseling Coordinators

Core NPO

ME-net (Core NPO)

Through this project, schools and community networks that were not previously directly connected are now linked.

Network Building

Examples of Support

Livelihood Regular food delivery through partnerships with food banks
Safe spaces Partnerships with community gathering places, learning classrooms, local events, and volunteer activities
Employment Connecting to Regional Youth Support Stations when post-graduation employment is not secured
Foreign nationals Support for obtaining residency status through partnerships with bar associations and administrative scrivener associations

FY2025 Target Schools

8 prefectural high schools (selected from the Kensai, Kenō, and Hiratsuka areas)

Yamakita Odawara Higashi Aikawa Atsugi Seinan Atsugi Kita Takahama Sagami Koyokan Isehara

+ Spot support for approximately 6 additional prefectural high schools upon request

Partner Organizations (Planned)

Second League Kanagawa Regional Youth Support Station Katariba Kodomo Tempo Empowerment Kanagawa CLCA Volunteer Lawyers Group Kanagawa Administrative Scriveners Association Seishin Utsumi Juku Prefectural & Municipal Social Welfare Councils Children's cafeterias and learning classrooms across the prefecture Community centers, libraries, etc.

Expanding partnerships with organizations that accept teenagers and young people in each area

This project is carried out by ME-net (Certified NPO Multicultural Education Network Kanagawa) in collaboration with the Prefectural Livelihood Support Division, School Support Division, and High School Education Division, through the FY2025 Kanagawa Voluntary Activity Promotion Fund 21 collaborative project "Consultation Support for Teenagers Facing Difficulties."

Language

Outreach Consultation Support (Career Support)