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Urban League offers Mentoring and Employment Program

James Shelby, president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League, unveiled a plan last Tuesday called the Year-Round Employment Program. With the help of 150 businesses, the plan will employ 300 at-risk African-American teens and provide mentors to teach them life skills.
"The businesses - which have yet to be recruited - will provide the jobs and some of the mentoring. For the first three months, churches and community groups will provide mentoring on topics including how to handle money, workplace ethics, conflict resolution and birth control."
An estimated 25 - 30% of young black men live below the poverty line, and 19-44% of them drop out of high school and never finish. The Year-Round Employment Program hopes to reduce those numbers. Read more at SacBee.com.

Labels: jobs, at_risk, employment

Posted By: Aspen Education Group