ComEd, Partners Announce Expanded Summer Job Training for Teens Interested in the Trades - Seite 2

ComEd is teaming up with the YMCA of Metro Chicago and Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metro Chicago to recruit and conduct interviews for students interested in the program. Once enrolled, students will attend classroom sessions three times a week held across YMCA’s locations in Woodlawn, West Humboldt Park, Little Village and Palatine, and at Goodwill’s Workforce Connection Center in Englewood.

"As a core component of the Y's growing portfolio of programs in the workforce space, the CONSTRUCT Youth Academy provides our local teens with a behind-the-scenes look at jobs they might never have considered, while also empowering them to develop new, practical, and transferable professional and life skills," said Martina "Tina" Hone, chief economic inclusion & equity officer, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. "We know that introducing young people to the tremendous possibilities in these careers is a key step in setting them up for long-term success. The Y is proud to partner with ComEd again this year to expand the program, which — based on last year's astounding demand — points to young people’s rising interest in careers in energy and the trades!"

The program returns after high levels of interest from local youth, with hundreds of applications received last year. As part of an effort to expand the CONSTRUCT Youth Academy program from one to five sites this year, Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago joins as a new workforce partner assisting with recruitment and training with local youth.

“Goodwill is thrilled to support this up-and-coming program that will expand our reach to local youth in helping them identify well-paying and fulfilling careers to pursue,” said Clayton Pryor, chief mission officer, Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago. “Through this program, we are using our expertise as a leading workforce development provider to provide quality job readiness training, skill building and supportive services to teens and young adults to reach them earlier in their life journey and improve outcomes for sustained employment, career advancement and independence.”