CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA recently completed the successful training of the fourth generation of young participants of the Youth Career Initiative (YCI) educational program.

The participants, Victor Balderas, Alicia Navarro, Fabiola Fernandez, Juan Vejar, Fernando Morales, Selene Martinez and Dulce Martinez, had the chance to develop new interpersonal and professional skills with the objective of opening up a wide range of opportunities and choices for their careers, thanks to the valuable support of the managers and associates of the CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA.

YCI is an initiative supported by the International Business Leaders Forum, a non-profit organization founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, with the mission to promote economic and social development, sustained through leadership in the private sector.

With YCI, the hospitality industry provides valuable education and vocational skills for high school graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta provided them with an intensive educational program that combines theory and practical instruction in operative and functional workplace situations.

The managing team of the hotel carries out the program, which includes instruction in personal finance, interpersonal skills, English language and computing skills, as well as personal health and wellbeing.

YCI allows the young students to be in touch with successful hospitality industry operations in every day situations. With YCI's program all the young participants can increase their potential and self-esteem while learning how to make wise career choices.

For the Marriott hotels involved in this project: CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA, the JW Marriott Hotel Mexico City, and CasaMagma Marriott Cancun, YCI is already part of their social responsibility programs, becoming an effective and active tool to help the local community and a platform for their associates to contribute actively in the professional career of future generations.

In 2007, Mexico became the second country to implement this initiative in Latin America, 2 years after Brazil. YCI is a global initiative presence in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia. In its 15 years of operation, YCI has offered this valuable opportunity to over two thousand five hundred (2500) young people around the world.

To celebrate the end of the CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA YCI program the managing team organized a very special graduation ceremony, in which the graduates received their certificate from Alberto Cánovas YCI's Operations Manager and Teresa Paredes, Director of Operations of CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA.

The graduates shared this important occasion with their families, hotel volunteers and various personalities like Chief of Municipal Social Programs, Ana Noelia Zepeda García, who congratulated the graduates of the YCI.

For further information on the YCI program, please visit YouthCareerInitiative.org.