In School Program is successful model developed by Youth 4 Jobs for underprivileged Schools.

Underprivileged Schools

An innovative program "Communication and Soft Skills" was launched in 2008 in association with Andhra Pradesh Government's Social Welfare High Schools for the SC/ST. This pioneering public-private-partnership model aimed for the following outcomes

• Develop employability skills at the school level
• Raise awareness about various career options
• Ensure more SC/ST students complete high school and enroll into better institutes of higher learning
• The program started in 2008 with the needs assessment which was done by British Council in two schools for students in class 11th & 12th
• Vernacular Medium
• English Medium Schools

The following were the steps taken

• Developed a 200 hrs course curriculum on " Communication and Soft Skills" in partnership with British Council.
• Created audio-visual teaching aids for effective learning and trained the government teachers and school principals
• Developed a Quality Control Team to visit the schools every fortnightly
• Covered 112 high schools with 15,000 students benefiting every year, at the end of the course the students also appeared for Cambridge Certification

Outcome

• SC/ST students developed employability skills along with major improvement in English and enrolled into better institutes of higher learning
• Now other State Governments are replicating the model