Resources

• AmeriCorps
  NCCC requires an intense, ten-month, full-time commitment by young people aged 18-24 year-olds. The program is residential, team-based, and modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and the U.S. military. Members serve in teams of 10-12 individuals and are assigned to projects throughout the region served by their campus. They are trained in CPR, first aid, and mass care before deploying for their first service project. In addition some members are also certified in chainsaw operation and wildland firefighting. During their service, members receive lodging, meals, uniforms, health benefits, student-loan forbearance and a living allowance of about $4,000. Upon successful completion of their term, members receive an education award of $4,725 to help pay for college or graduate school, or to pay back qualified student loans.

• Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

• My2A (Motivating Youth to Achieve) and the Artisan Baking Center (ABC) Partnership:
  Recently the CWE (Consortium For Worker Education) partnered with the Catholic Home Bureau and the Central Labor Council in an initiative, “Motivating Youth to Achievement”, (MY2A). This project provided ABC the opportunity to train foster care youth who are aging out of the system with six weeks of career training in the food service industry and to prepare them for jobs in that sector. This project provided ABC the opportunity to train foster-care youth who are aging out of the system in six weeks of career training in the food service industry and to prepare them for jobs in that sector. The young adults in this program demonstrate the drive and determination required to enter the workforce as adults, commanding the salary and respect offered to new and successful workers.