South Eastern Trust brings hope for young people seeking employment

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00:00The Job Start programme basically is an initiative through the Department of Communities which

00:16fund job opportunities within each of the trusts.

00:20Within that pre-employment programme the young people were able to develop a range of different

00:25skills linked to employability.

00:27As part of that process we were delighted to take two young people on to the HOPE team

00:34and what we're hoping to do is again build some of those employability skills with the

00:40young people and to give them an insight into what the HOPE team do and develop their skills

00:46and see where they want to go in the future.

00:48Just stick to it, keep your head into it because if you don't you're going to fall back down

00:53because I was down and then my friends and my family were just like Natasha keep pushing

00:59yourself no matter if you fail or aren't successful just keep pushing and that's what I've done

01:06and I ended up here.

01:08So it was helpful for me and big support actually to get the opportunity to start with the HOPE

01:17team.

01:18Well I've been working with some of the young people for approximately nearly two years

01:22now so it's great to see them grow and develop and see their confidence and see sort of them

01:29flourish within their job roles.

01:32Cattle was my biggest support to push me because I always think of like it's the confidence.

01:40I was happy because I said to my family I was like I got a job and they were like well

01:45we're so proud of you you know from where you were to now you've obviously moved up

01:50in the world and that was, they were just proud.