Everyone Wins With Exploring

Exploring will be one of the best opportunities you offer your organizations, your employees, and the youth of your community.

Organization Benefits

• Impact on the education process of youth
• Team-building attitude within the company
• Opportunity to interpret adult occupational roles for youth
• Preparing young adults for transition from school to work
• Creating a “safe haven” for the healthy development of adolescents
• Developing future responsible and caring adults
• Ensuring that young people see how your business relates to the free-enterprise system
• Helping young adults gain insight into the ethics and ideals of business
• Visible commitment to the welfare of your community

Employee Benefits

• Greater job awareness
• Developing leadership and problem-solving skills
• Re-evaluating ethical and moral values
• Opportunity for greater community involvement
• Respect from youth and community
• Identification as appropriate adult role models
• Enhancing communication, planning, and program development skills
• Greater commitment to service
• Developing interpersonal skills used in the workplace and elsewhere

Youth Benefits

• Stimulated interest in continual education
• Career information; insight into future vocation
• Positive alternative to negative youth activities, such as drug abuse and involvement with gangs
• Sense of acceptance and belonging to the “right” group
• Safe environment for adult like activities
• Opportunities to participate in practical, real, and meaningful hands-on experiences
• New career and personal skills
• Opportunities to try leadership roles and develop skills
• Cooperative relationship between adults and youth
• Service to others