Youth-Business Mentoring Program with Common Wealth Development
Common Wealth Development has been providing area teens with training and enriching first job experiences since 1991. With the current economic climate, the unemployment rate for the nation’s teens is approximately triple that of adults. Our Youth-Business Mentoring Program helps level the playing field.
Our Youth-Business Mentoring Program provides youth an intensive three week pre-employment training followed by a job placement with a supportive business. We begin by teaching teens how to effectively find, apply, and interview for jobs. The key, however, is the next step when we work with them on keeping and excelling at a job once they have one. Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream partners with us to show our participants how to provide superior customer service and exceed employer expectations.
After a teen successfully completes our training, the real fun begins! We place them in a job and together with their workplace supervisor, our staff mentors program participants during their job placements. This double-mentoring ensures that a youth has the support he or she needs to make the most of their employment opportunity and overcome problems that may arise in a first job.
Join our youth programs team and have fun while helping a diverse group of teens build skills vital to succeeding in the real world!
Common Wealth is hiring for a position in our employment and financial education, college access, job placement, saving, and mentoring programs for economically disadvantaged youth. Please take a look at the Job Announcement below.
Interested in Volunteering?
Go HERE and fill out the form on our volunteer page.
There are many ways to get involved with our programs and make a meaningful contribution to the youth we are working with. Just click on the links below to get started.
You can partner to hire and mentor one of our program participants at your business!
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