New Center Lab65: Vienna fights against youth welfare!

New Center Lab65: Vienna fights against youth welfare!

new center for young homeless people

The Lab65 is acted as a competence center that complements the existing offers of the Vienna homeless help. Especially young people who live in homeless help or who are threatened by homelessness are addressed. The close connection of homelessness and unemployment should be broken up through targeted support. "We are faced with the challenge that many young people come from difficult conditions and often do not have a completed training," said district manager Markus Rumelhart. Desired synergies with the Lab65 are supposed to open up the youthful educational and employment prospects.

At the same time, the Waff (Wiener employee promotion fund) has the developments on the Vienna labor market. Vienna has experienced a significant increase in employment in recent years. The growth is particularly evident in the service sector, where tens of thousands of new jobs have been created. Despite a positive overall picture, certain groups, including young people, still face challenges. The apprenticeship gap and the structural disadvantage of certain population groups remain problematic, even if unemployment has been significantly reduced in recent years, as the waff reports.

The Lab65 offers a low-threshold access option to educational and labor market integration. A team of experts will provide the young apartment and job seekers individually, with the aim of sustainably improving their opportunities on the labor market. The implementation of this initiative is particularly important in order to not only offer young people a roof over their heads, but also to integrate them into society and to enable a self -determined life.