**Youth Foundation, Seoul Metropolitan Wait-time Center, Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled Employment Development Institute: Jointly Hosted**
**Talk Concert with Youth, Workplace Representatives, and Job Mentors**
The Youth Foundation (hereafter referred to as the Foundation), the Seoul Metropolitan Lifelong Education Support Center for Youth with Borderline Intelligence, and the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled Employment Development Institute successfully held a performance sharing session for the “2024 Youth with Borderline Intelligence Job Competency Reinforcement and Work Experience Pilot Project” (hereafter referred to as the Pilot Project) at the Locause Hotel in Yongsan, Seoul, on the 11th.
The pilot project, which started in February this year, aims to discover unemployed young people with borderline intelligence who wish to explore careers. It provides a tailored program consisting of three stages: ▲ career consulting, ▲ vocational training, and ▲ work experience. The Foundation supported a total of 143 youths with borderline intelligence to find their aptitude and smoothly transition into society through three educational courses in 2024.
The event included a diverse program that all participants in the pilot project could enjoy, such as ▲ watching a video reminiscing about the program, ▲reading thank-you letters from participating youth, ▲a talk concert with workplace representatives, job mentors, and youth, and ▲a congratulatory performance by the youth club “Do Dream Band.”
In her commemorative speech, Park Joo-hee, Secretary General of the Youth Foundation, stated, “Through this project, conducted jointly by three organizations, we have confirmed the limitless potential and passion of youths with borderline intelligence,” and emphasized, “We will continue to cooperate with related organizations to support young people with various characteristics to integrate well into our society.”
Lee Gyo-bong, Director of the Seoul Special City Lifelong Education Support Center for Youth with Borderline Intelligence, expressed gratitude by saying, “Thank you, everyone, for doing your best in your positions over the past year,” and added, “The Meme Center will also spare no effort to support youth with borderline intelligence so that they can confidently become solid members of our society.” Jo Yoon-kyung, Director of the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled Employment Development Institute, commented, “It was a project where the cooperation of the three institutions shone,” and expressed hope that “this experience will serve as a basis for establishing a meaningful social entry model for youths with borderline intelligence.”