Last week, we were contacted regarding possible youth intern positions at the Seatle Department of Transportation. Several of the 2014 teens were asked to prepare for school-year employment opportunities and get their resumes out of the computers for printing. We were told that 5 positions were opening and to notify as many teens as I could who went through the 2014 project this summer.
We were able to field four teens and four positions were filled with Yesler 2014 teens!!! Word back has it that the training and exposure this summer aided in preparing them for the interviews, as well as provided the ability to have an informed conversation about some of the fundamentals of urban planning and design.
Yesler 2014's mission is to provide professional development for teens 14-19 through urban planning, design, and the community engagement process. Making self-sufficiency more accessible to those that most in need of the information; youth, teens, and young adult in communities that do not have their economic or political capital supported fully. Yesler2014 is working with the future of the community to ensure success.
Project Outline
- Creatives4Community
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Creatives4Community and Yesler2014 works with and through the Planners Network (Seattle Chapter) and Youth Planners Network who are an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems through active participation at the ground-level in community, neighborhood, and city planning and design.
August 31, 2008
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