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2011 Youth Initiative Summer Work Experience
This summer twenty three young people from different neighborhoods around New Haven blended together to be a part of the sixth year of the GNHHA sponsored Youth Initiative Program. Their mornings were jump started daily with energizing icebreakers, team building exercises, and thought provoking workshops that helped to "re-shape" their ideas about each other, themselves, the community we live in, and their individual futures.
After a full morning of lessons learned, experienced and processed these young adults headed out to their work sites to earn a pay check and put into practice values and concepts that were freshly taking root in their minds.
The Boys and Girls Club, Skills Camp, New Haven Reads, Yale University School of Nursing, Centro San Jose, New Haven Family Alliance, John Martinez Summer Camp, Christian Community Action -Stepping Stone, and Life Haven are on the list of local businesses and organizations that provided work settings for these promising young people.
This summer twenty three young people from different neighborhoods around New Haven blended together to be a part of the sixth year of the GNHHA sponsored Youth Initiative Program. Their mornings were jump started daily with energizing icebreakers, team building exercises, and thought provoking workshops that helped to "re-shape" their ideas about each other, themselves, the community we live in, and their individual futures.
After a full morning of lessons learned, experienced and processed these young adults headed out to their work sites to earn a pay check and put into practice values and concepts that were freshly taking root in their minds.
The Boys and Girls Club, Skills Camp, New Haven Reads, Yale University School of Nursing, Centro San Jose, New Haven Family Alliance, John Martinez Summer Camp, Christian Community Action -Stepping Stone, and Life Haven are on the list of local businesses and organizations that provided work settings for these promising young people.
In order to provide a variety of work experiences, we hope to see more businesses and organizations willing to invest in the future workforce. GNHHA and Youth @Work supply the paychecks; businesses need only provide the work.
If your business or organization is interested in providing a work experience for some young people in summer 2012, send an email to: info@helpnewhaven.org.
If your business or organization is interested in providing a work experience for some young people in summer 2012, send an email to: info@helpnewhaven.org.
Posted by Making A Difference at 1/28/2012 5:25 PM 
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