[This is a placeholder home page for a new website to the developed. as a successor to ipcpathways.org We are using this now solely to host guide teams pages.]
Imagining Your Future
A Pathways program supporting youth and young adults at Immanuel
[This home page will describe IPC Pathways program, and will have separate sections on guide teams, conversations, events, the Resource Map, Pathways at Work and the Pathways Fund. For now, this site contains only Guide teams pages for the benefit of the four current guide teams.]
Guide teams.
We want guide teams to have fun as they explore and learn.
A guide team is three Immanuelites exploring life’s important questions together over a sustained period.
The team consist of a high school student, a young adult and an older adult.
Learn more here:
Conversations.
There are over 125 Immnuelites who have registered in this suitable directory to be available for mentoring conversations.
One-on-one cups of coffee - virtually these days- between youth/young adults (whom we call seekers, or explorers) and mentors.
These are one-time conversations, with the hope that mentors will introduce seekers to others.
Learn more here:
Events.
A forum in early 2018 based on the book Designing Your Life. Here Immanuel young adults work on the “spaghetti challenge.”.
We’ve had seven forums so far for high school students, college students, young adults and all ages. A total of 185 have attended all the forums.
For example, just before the pandemic we held a vocation forum for Immanuel high school students and other select Fairfax County high school students, and their parents. The fair was designed to encourage conversations about making more informed vocation decisions. We had students from a wide variety of high schools, including Langley, McLean, Marshall, Oakton, Centreville, Robert E Lee, Virginia Virtual Academy and Cedar Lane, and home-schooled students.
Learn more here:
Resource Map.
This is a screenshot of a page on the Resource Map which contains links to
Links to books, articles, videos and blogs for further exploration.
Segregated sections for high school students, college students, young adults, and mentors.
Also, resources on spiritual issues, financial issues, and on “Pathways at Work” (internships, vacation jobs and gap year opportunities).
Our favorite part is “Mentor Stories,” which contains videos of dozens of Immanuel mentors telling stores about their life paths.
Learn more here:
Pathways at work.
Opportunities can be for one hour, one day, one week or longer. They can be paid or unpaid. The goal is to encourage seekers to explore their interests and to try things they might not otherwise try.
A bulletin board of opportunities for seekers (Immanuel youth). This virtual board has 10 listings for positions to allow seekers to explore different work environments. The opportunities include:
Internships
Shadowing
Vacation jobs
Gap year opportunities
Ideas for volunteering
Learn more here:
Pathways Fund.
Video thanking Immanuel for a seed grant to start the Pathways Fund.
Supporting Internships and Career Guidance Resources for Low-Income, At Risk High School Students
“Many underrepresented students must work throughout high school and don’t have the luxury to accept unpaid internships. Compensating interns frees them up to fully engage in a valuable workplace learning experience while being able to meet their basic needs.
“High school is a critical period for students to start exploring what they enjoy, identifying their career goals and mapping out a plan for achieving them.”
– Hechinger Report