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.

Customer service with Chocolate Shoppe Ice CreamOur 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.

Youth and workplace mentor at Prairie Music AcademyAfter 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.

NOW HIRING! PASS AmeriCorps Member

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Challenge yourself while building a better community!

Develop a broad skill set while helping teens
transform their lives!

Common Wealth Development’s Youth Programs seeks two motivated and energetic individuals to join our team as full-time AmeriCorps Members. The AmeriCorps Members will help deliver our youth employment and financial education, college access, job placement, saving, and mentoring programs. Members will provide...


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