Desarrollo de Habilidades Esenciales para la Vida

Esperanza Juvenil's provision is a comprehensive, holistic programme designed to support children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds through education, residential care, and personal development. They offer a structured learning environment that includes quality schooling, academic reinforcement, socio-emotional support, values and spiritual formation, and health and nutrition services. Alongside this, Esperanza Juvenil provides safe residential homes that foster responsibility, independence, and healthy relationships. As students progress, they are guided through vocational orientation, university access, and ongoing accompaniment during higher education, preparing them for employability, leadership, and active service to their communities, enabling long-term personal and professional transformation.

This programme supports essential skills development by focusing specifically on listening and speaking skills. The process begins with training the educational leadership team (directors, coordinators, and administrative staff) to actively practice effective listening and clear, purposeful speaking in meetings, decision-making, and daily interactions. Through a multiplier effect, these skills are then modelled and reinforced with teachers and caregivers responsible for children’s homes, who intentionally apply listening and speaking strategies in classrooms, residential settings, and daily accompaniment. Students practice these skills through discussions, presentations, collaborative activities, and everyday communication, ensuring listening and speaking are consistently applied across academic, residential, and family-related contexts.

The educational leadership team reflect on their own essential skill development using the Benchmark tool and attend training sessions designed to develop their listening and speaking skills.