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The transition from school to professional life the first few years of employment adolescents and young adults often need support in this important phase of life. City of Vienna and AMS Vienna offer their offers for professional educational and social matters for all under-25-year-olds under one roof. On Monday Social Councilor Peter Hacker AMS state manager Petra Draxl and councilor Ursula Berner visited the joint facility in Meidling which was put into operation in summer 2020 and took a look at the offers of the U25 in practice.The new offer of MA 40 and AMS Vienna for teenagers and young adults between 15 and 24 years in Vienna has been available at the joint location in Meidling since summer 2020. The aims of the cooperation include increased labor market integration of the target group and better coordination and simplification of support and service structures. The care and residence times in the Vienna minimum income are to be reduced. The joint care of young people and young adults with the AMS Vienna aims to improve the quality of care and to enable an uncomplicated and more efficient exchange between MA 40 and AMS Vienna.In a crisis situation you dont need fair weather speeches but concrete actions to cope with them. Here U25 together with the Corona training package from the City of Vienna represents an essential part of the package of measures to reduce the dramatically high youth unemployment again. Around 10000 people under the age of 25 are currently receiving minimum income in Vienna. Each of them is one too many. With U25 we give young people and young adults a new perspective and help them to live on their own two feet. Peter Hacker City Councilor for Social Affairs Health and SportIt is precisely here that young people receive competent and emphatic advice and support on labor market issues training and social issues bundled under one roof. This is how common governance works in Vienna for the people in this city. Ursula Berner local councilor and member of the state parliament social and family spokeswoman for the Greens ViennaRight now it is important that we pay attention to adolescents and young adults and encourage them to move towards an apprenticeship qualification or another good educational qualification. This enables them to take up employment after the crisis from which they can live and in which they can develop. The great advantage of the U25 is that the advice and support for this age group is now from a single source whether these are concerns that the City of Vienna is implementing or whether it concerns the support from the AMS Vienna. Petra Draxl AMS regional manager for ViennaThe project is designed for the long term but is already showing initial success after the first few months. With the Vienna Youth Support we meet the target group-specific orientation of the City of Vienna in the social area. It is a unique lighthouse project with which the federal government and the City of Vienna have created a joint offer for young Viennese and have adapted their systems to one another. Agnes Berlakovich Head of MA 40The house offers around 13000 m2 of space for the offers of the City of Vienna and AMS. A total of around 27000 young people and young adults are looked after by around 100 employees of the City of Vienna MA 40 and around 220 employees of the AMS Vienna. The location is modern and youth-friendly in order to be able to advise and support the young Viennese as best as possible. Bundling the resources and services of Municipal Department 40 and AMS Vienna in one location has two main advantages continues Berlakovich The creation of the one-stop shop increases customer friendliness and improves social accuracy. With the expansion of the quality of support we are creating a win-win-win situation for customers the AMS and the city of Vienna.
