Difficulties Facing Unemployed Youth and Their Families Observed through Job Assistance Services in a Local Area

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  • 地方の若者就労支援の現場からみる若者と家族の課題
  • チホウ ノ ワカモノ シュウロウ シエン ノ ゲンバ カラ ミル ワカモノ ト カゾク ノ カダイ

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Seishounen-Shuro-Shien Network Shizuoka (Shizuoka Job Assistance Network for Youth) has provided assistance for unemployed youth who have had difficulty in entering the job market. Their job assistance approach is called the Shizuoka Method. The Shizuoka Method not only emphasizes the idea of recovery by adapting IPS (individual placement and support) developed for mentally ill patients interested in work, but also makes efforts to have community members be more mutually helpful to others by engaging ordinary citizen volunteers as supporters for youth. It has been observed that a young person and his/her parents try to maintain pride by avoiding negative appraisals by others and keeping their self-identity as being self-reliant, as a result of which they tend to exclude themselves from others in their community. Therefore, an approach to devising support for unemployed youth should invent ways to overcome this problem of self-isolation. The Shizuoka Method has developed a number of features to overcome this problem, adapting to local situations in Shizuoka. Finally, it is suggested that families with unemployed children may escape from this impasse by uniting as problem solvers with other families.

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