One of the biggest challenges facing workforce professionals are helping youth, young adults, single parents, ex-offenders, and veterans overcome their personal, academic, and career stumbling blocks. Unfortunately, many in this targeted population consciously and unconsciously prescribe to self-handicapping behaviors and find themselves unprepared to make a successful transition to educational and workforce opportunities. These pre-existing conditions contribute to strategies that cause self-handicapping behaviors that hinder personal, educational and workforce success.
Programs across the country are looking for ways to become more innovative and comprehensive. Currently, most programs offer the same traditional strategies and approaches that keep people trapped. Many programs are doomed before they start because they do not offer training on how to eliminate self-handicapping behaviors. It is essential that workforce professionals become more innovative and think outside of the box to help participants learn to overcome their self-handicapping behaviors which stimulate personal, academic and employment stumbling blocks that create a cycle of poverty.
The Stop Tripping: Self Sufficiency & Empowerment curriculum is designed to enhance success by helping participants overcome their personal, academic and employment stumbling blocks. The New Millennium Institute’s curriculum, Stop Tripping Over Your Own Feet: The Self-Sufficiency and Empowerment Workbook is a resource for the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals that help programs implement comprehensive educational and workforce strategies and tools that reduce self-handicapping behaviors and promote self-sufficiency, employment, and educational, training of individuals with barriers entering or re-entering the workforce.
Our holistic and comprehensive process engages participants and creates a strong bond between staff and participants that generates greater customer service and success. This non-traditional pre-assessment tool equips staff to help participants overcome their barriers which stagnates self-sufficiency. Activities are designed to help staff evaluate participants’ personal, academic and employment needs and readiness. This training promotes self-sufficiency, responsibility and economic success.
Training activities include:
soft-skills
self-esteem
goal setting/decision making skills
career awareness
employer expectations
barriers to employment
life purpose
family unification
training/education and job readiness
individualized educational and employment plan