Youth Workforce Development
Our Youth workforce development program, READY (Recruit, Employ, Advance and Develop Youth) is designed to provide a safe, structured and engaging environment to impart practical tools of employability to teenagers. The program offers youth character development by helping them realize a positive work ethic, and also introduces them to important concepts of business leadership and management. We have also found the importance of tutoring workforce trainees so that they are proficient in at least 6th grade level math and reading. READY has had over 250 teens come through the program. We are committed to placing teens in jobs. Those jobs range from our businesses to McDonalds to Olympia Entertainment. Our retention rate, i.e., how many have stayed on the job after one year is 64%. The full READY program narrative is below.
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Our Youth workforce development program, READY (Recruit, Employ, Advance and Develop Youth) is designed to provide a safe, structured and engaging environment to impart practical tools of employability to teenagers. The program offers youth character development by helping them realize a positive work ethic, and also introduces them to important concepts of business leadership and management. We have also found the importance of tutoring workforce trainees so that they are proficient in at least 6th grade level math and reading. READY has had over 250 teens come through the program. We are committed to placing teens in jobs. Those jobs range from our businesses to McDonalds to Olympia Entertainment. Our retention rate, i.e., how many have stayed on the job after one year is 64%. The full READY program narrative is below.
