The new platform will serve as a professional development hub for teens throughout Boston and Chelsea.
Ready to Work, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston’s (BGCB) workforce development initiative, is excited to announce the launch of its virtual summer campus. The new platform will serve as a professional development hub for teens throughout Boston and Chelsea.
This summer, the platform will connect more than 80 teens with work experience that builds professional skills that will lead to future job opportunities, introduce them to mentors that can advise them about career pathways, and share community service opportunities. Just as importantly, the new platform will also help educate workplaces about the talent that exists in communities they may not traditionally tap to talent.
We celebrated the introduction of this new resource with a virtual launch event that featured: Josh Kraft, Nicholas President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Kevin Churchwell, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Monica Cannon-Grant, Founder and CEO of Violence in Boston, Inc. and a former activist for Black Lives Matter.
For more information about the program, please contact Walter Weekes Jr., BGCB’s Dana W. Smith Director of Workforce Development, at wweekes@bgcb.org.
About Ready to Work:
Ready to Work is a BGCB workforce development initiative. It takes a broad and comprehensive approach to preparing teens for their entrance into the workforce, offering workforce orientations and programs catering to members’ interests. Examples of programs include the Junior Staff Program, Teamworks Program, Lifeguard Program, Technical Training & Apprenticeships, and Summer Internships.
The goal of the program is to:
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- Equip teens with valuable skills for success to enter the workforce, which may or may not require a four year college degree.
- Develop the next generation of thinkers and problem solvers prepared to fill jobs and industries growing in Boston’s evolving economy and globally.
- Provide youth and families of Boston and Chelsea with greater opportunities to career paths that can assist their economic mobility.
- Create relationships and pipelines with the business community to connect oriented youth with organizations that value diversity and the development of their staff.
- Educate workplaces about the talent that exists in communities they may not traditionally tap to talent.
For more information about Ready to Work, click here.
