YouthWorks - a program to meet your needs
YouthWorks, Inc. provides a wide range of activities on a regular basis to help you explore relevant careers and build a career path that's right for you. We provide training to prepare you for a job search and be successful on the job when you are hired.
Here are some of the many services YouthWorks offers:
Age Up Not Out (AUNO) Program - The AUNO program is a collaboration between YouthWorks, Inc. and Jewish Family & Children’s Services (JF&CS). Specifically designed for foster care youth ages 18-24, this program is aimed to create a level playing field for youth participants by boosting their work-readiness levels, for work and post secondary education through career planning and comprehensive related support services. The AUNO program includes paid JumpStart Success job-readiness training; individualized career planning and job search assistance; financial literacy and entrepreneurship enrichment sessions; as well as direct connections to hiring employers and post secondary schools. To sign up, contact Keith Johnson at 412.281.6629 x206 or kjohnson@youthworksinc.org.
Cool Hot Jobs Workshop Series - YouthWorks brings in professionals from in-demand careers in southwestern Pennsylvania to help you see the great opportunities that await you if you prepare. You'll learn about salaries and educational preparation for a wide range of jobs in fields such as:
- Information Technology-October
- Criminal Justice- November
- Health Care- March
- Architecture and Construction- April
- And more...Employment opportunities - YouthWorks funds work opportunities at community based organizations and works with businesses in the area to provide first-time work experience.
JobBlast - YouthWorks' monthly e-newsletter keeps you plugged into important YouthWorks activities and events, community events and youth-friendly job opportunities. Click here for our Archived JobBlast E-Newsletters.
Sign up to receive our JobBlast in your email inbox today!
Job Shadowing - YouthWorks arranges in-depth visits to job sites so you can see first-hand what a day might be like at your dream career. Our Job Shadow program usually takes place one week in the Spring.
Job Tours - YouthWorks arranges onsite visits to companies that match your career interests. Learn from professionals in the field and see if you could see yourself in that career.
- Information Technology-October
- Criminal Justice- November
- Health Care- March
- Architecture and Construction- April
- And more...JumpStart Success - YouthWorks' work-readiness and career exploration training. Learn about yourself and how your skills, talents and things that make you happy connect to the larger world of work and careers. Complete this training and put it on your resume. Any future employer will be impressed. And, you'll be ready to create a career plan, conduct a job search, develop a resume and learn the ins and outs of interviewing and being successful in the workplace.
- Pathways to Careers
Pathways to Careers is a community focused project funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the United Way of Allegheny County, designed to open the world of careers to ninth grade students. YouthWorks (YW) is pleased to announce Langley High School (a Pittsburgh Public School) as the focal point of its Pathways to Careers initiative.
September kicked off a year-long program of school-based and work-based learning activities at Langley: Road Trip Nation, a national curriculum that enables youth to develop a journalistic view of a career through team video-graphic documentary projects; YouthWorks’ Cool Hot Jobs Workshop Series and job tour highlighting various healthcare careers; college visits; and job shadowing. Makes you wish you were in 9th grade again, huh?!
Our hope is to learn promising practices that can implemented further with additional youth. Interested volunteers should contact Matt Mahoney, Pathways Project Coordinator, at 412-281-6629, x209 or at mmahoney@youthworksinc.org.
It’s up to you to take the first step. Call YouthWorks today and start building your future: 412.281.6629
Unless otherwise stated, all activities will take place at the YouthWorks office:
401 Wood Street, Suite 1500, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(Arrott Building, Downtown Pittsburgh, next to the Subway sandwich shop on the corner of 4th and Wood St.)
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