Piarist Kilátó Career Guidance and Labor Market Development, Methodological Center (Piarist Kilátó Center)
About the Institution
The Piarist Kilátó Center was established on the 31th of January, 2018. The institution was placed in Vác, in the building of the earlier monastery owned by the Lady of Hungary Franciscan Province. As a result of the cooperation between the Franciscan and the Piarist orders, after the full reconstruction of the building, this was the place where the Piarist Kilátó Center started its operation in 2020. The building was built with wheel-chair accessibility.
The Center is an institution performing a complex set of tasks. The main goal is to support the career guidance and job finding of the young people having special education needs and/or living with disabilities in an inclusive way.To achieve this , it maintains relations with all the involved parties of career guidance and labor market, and provides personalized services for them. In addition to the complex career building of the young people, it also effectively assist parents, teachers, career consultants and employers, based on their individual needs.
At the same time, the Center also performs the role of a country level methodological, research and development center. In this role, it is an integral part of education, training and the labor market. At the same time, its comprehensive, integrating approach and up-to-date, practical, personalized supporting methods have a gap filling importance. Among its basic principles you can find long term personal mentoring, accompanying, network and teamwork based way of thinking and community development. Piarist Kilátó Center’s services are provided for young people requiring special personal attention from the age of 10 to 33.
The Center is maintained by the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order. The Center’s activities are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation.
Institution’s mission
The mission of the Piarist Career Guidance and Labour Market Development and Methodology Centre is to contribute as a service and methodological institute supporting the development of career and labour market competences, so that young people and adults can play an active and responsible role in the labour market and their communities. To help young people and professionals who need special personal attention to succeed in the labour market, we offer them the experience of creation, community and growth in values, and through this, we help them to live their life’s vocation in the labour market.
Mission of the Piarist Order
The founder of the Piarist Order is Joseph Calasanctius who devoted his life to teaching poor children.
The Calasanctius way of thinking, the Piarist service has ten identity elements:
- Central role of the children and young people
- Commitment to the poor
- High quality education and pastoral work
- Proclamation of the gospel
- Renewal of the society
- Shared mission
- Inclusion of family
- Accompaniment
- Preparation of educators
- A sense of belonging to the church
For the persons contacting the Piarist Kilátó Center the religious attitude or practice of faith is not required. At the same time, the Center performs its tasks in accordance with the Calasanctius intent, integrating in the Piarist tradition, and continuously keeping in mind its values and goals.
Main Programs
- O/N Peron program
The O/N Peron is a personal experience-based program, a career orientation day, which has five various adaptations: the program is available for the 7th grade elementary school students; for the 10th grade high school students; for the 10-11th grade vocational school students; for the 13th grade technical grade students and the Center’s specialist also adopted the program for students with special educational needs. By completing the program’s challenges of 7-10 stages, the students are able to focus on planning their future, choosing school and career opportunities, building their professional life path and possible ways forward.
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- Ready, Set, Go! Program
The Piarist Kilátó Center’s Ready, Set, Go! program is a series of sessions supporting the entry into the labor market. It was developed by the Center’s specialists for the graduating students of the Cházár András Unified Institute of Special Education Methodology. The purpose of the sessions is to enable young people, with special educational needs who are on the threshold of employment and independent adult life, to think about their opportunities after obtaining a vocational qualification or sub-vocational qualification, and to receive expert support for their future planning. During the program, which consists of four larger units, students gain more insight and information by learning more about their self-knowledge, career knowledge and labor market questions. In Ready, Set, Go! program they also participate in the O/N Peron career orientation day, which is adapted to the group. In addition to joint work with the students, the program also includes Parental Information sessions, where families can learn about labor market opportunities, as well as receive help with obtaining the complex certification and apply for state subsidies.
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- Career Planning Competence Development among Girls Living in Extreme Poverty program. (Former ‘Sparkling eyes program’)
For four years, the Piarist Kilátó Center had been associated with the Sátoraljaújhely Piarist Presence former Sparkling eyes program. The essence of the process of supporting disadvantaged and cumulatively disadvantaged Romani girls was to help the participants to complete the school of their choice and to obtain the profession that best suits them. The staff of the center helped the girls to develop their competence with a series of sessions spanning the entire academic year, primarily in terms of self-knowledge and cooperation. The joint work was traditionally concluded by the summer boot camp in Vác, where the Participant’s strengths are mapped primarily through experiential pedagogy exercises, they can explore and strengthen their values, and develop coping strategies. The joint work between Kilátó and the girls currently continues in the framework of the Career Planning Competence Development among Girls Living in Extreme Poverty Program.
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In Vác, next to the Géza király (Géza King) square, under the name “Anzelm Garden” you can find the earlier monastery being owned by the Lady of Hungary Franciscan Province. It had already a lot of functions until finally it could become a part of a new, ambitious plan.
As a result of the cooperation between the Franciscan and the Piarist orders, after the full scope reconstruction of the building, this is the place where the Piarist Kilátó Center started its operation.
The building is a wheel-chair accessible one. The personal consultations and sessions are held in the smaller rooms opening from the comfortable hall. The larger rooms are used for the group sessions and other programs.