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City to Work With Community Action Agency on Summer Jobs
The City and the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency (CAA) will partner to offer Cincinnati’s youth summer job opportunities. Most of the 360 participants, who must be Cincinnati residents, will work in a variety of entry-level jobs at community-based organizations and government agencies. The Summer Youth Employment Program will introduce youth to the workplace, will impart valuable employment skills, and will provide youth with a summer income. The Department of Community Development & Planning will oversee the contract.
The City’s Summer Youth Employment Program, passed by City Council as part of the 2007-08 budget, will provide youth between the ages of 14-18 years with eight weeks of work making the new higher minimum wage ($6.85/hour plus appropriate fringe benefits). The jobs will be for Cincinnati residents and youth will work for 15 hours per week.
The Community Action Agency will augment the program with services the agency offers such as life skills training. The Summer Youth Employment Program will run between June 11 and August 3, 2007.
A new part of the City’s Summer Youth Employment program is a partnership wit.h Cincinnati State who will be operating a pilot program called the Entrepreneurial Summer Program for 25 of the 360 youth. This program teaches high school students the fundamentals of the free enterprise system.
All participants in the Summer Youth Employment program will be provided with a monthly bus pass during the term of their participation in this program. Applications can be picked up at CAA Offices in Bond Hill, 17640 Langdon Farm Road, Cincinnati, OH 45237 starting Monday, April 30, 2007. For more information, contact Dorn Simpson at CAA: 513-569-1840 (ext. 2417)
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