Through Ohel’s partnership with Work At It, clients discover their strengths and translate them into real-life careers. Learn more, below.
Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services is the umbrella organization providing mental health services and supports to the Jewish community. Ohel looks carefully at our community and asks:
what needs still aren’t being addressed?
This time, they noticed something consistent. As they worked with clients across ages and stages, people weren’t only dealing with the challenges that brought them to Ohel in the first place. Many youth and young adults were also struggling to find their place in the world, especially when it came to school, productivity and work.
So Ohel partnered with Work At It to provide an even greater level of care.
Meet Work At It, an organization devoted to helping clients discover their strengths and invest in their future through strengths discovery, career coaching, and educational advocacy.
Work At It was created to help teens and young adults who were struggling to figure out their next steps. They didn’t fit neatly into school frameworks and were left stuck without direction, failing to launch into the next stage of their life, whether that was successful high school attendance, moving on to seminary, college, or meaningful employment in adulthood ‘Our goal,’ explains Yael Wedeck, co-founder of Work At It, ‘is to help our clients answer: Who are you — and how do we build a future around that?’
So the process begins there, with strengths discovery and aptitude evaluation. This isn’t matching applicants with positions. It’s taking the time to understand what comes naturally to a person, what drains them, and how they function best, and then finding a path that fits.
Ohel now provides Work At It services to teens and young adults who receive counseling at Ohel’s mental health clinic, as apart of the individual’s care plan. Through this partnership, Work At It serves as an additional resource for job readiness, career coaching, planning next steps, and structured productivity. Clients learn how to turn their personal strengths into real-world careers.
Through Ohel’s partnership with Work At It, clients don’t just get help coping — they learn how to move forward into the next stages of their life journey. Do you or someone you know need this extra guidance and support? Reach out to Ohel, here.
