Our Youth Employment & Educational Services

Youth Outreach provides both job readiness opportunities and education supports with individualized assessments and goal setting according to a youth’s needs and interests. Available job readiness services include workshops on resume writing, interviewing skills, employment soft skill development, and filling out applications both in person and online. Business partnerships for youth shadowing and volunteerism are available to help youth gain valuable work experience that can lead to employment.  

Working in tandem with other program services, staff helps youth remove the barriers that hinder their ability to find gainful employment such as living arrangements or conflicts at home, academic supports such as basic needs, school supplies, and tutoring, completing high school credit recovery or GED attainment, assisting with transportation needs, case management and life skills. Youth Outreach provides academic support for distance learning as well as ongoing mentorship from staff and work study students and interns from local colleges and universities.

We have a “Resources Bank” of employers and others from around the county, who will commit to the support of youth opportunities for employment.   This support also includes a cadre of resource sites where youth who have yet to find a paying position can volunteer on a regular basis to improve and learn skills, demonstrate appropriate job behaviors, and develop a work ethic which will add to their long term skillset.