Career Development | Nevada Partners

summer youth explosion

The Positive Summer Youth Explosion proved to be a huge success with the youth and the community. The major goal was to offer participating youth in Positive Youth Impact the opportunity to make a positive impact in their communities.

Over 200 youth were placed with community based organizations and companies to do more than work a summer job; they were offered community impact internships. These internships were designed in such a way that the youth earned a summer work experience while they contributed to making their community a stronger place by doing community impact projects. The final projects and the total community impact made by these youth were showcased at the Community Impact Awards Luncheon on Saturday, August 18th.

Summer Youth Explosion Prior to being placed in their community impact internships, students who were credit deficient or had not passed their high school proficiency classes attended one or two sessions of summer school. More than 150 youth attended summer school, Saturday Success Academy and participated in either a Summer Internship or Work Experience, totaling 85,000 hours of POSITIVE community impact.

Students were also required to attend Saturday Success Academy each Saturday at Nevada Partners. This Success Academy provided an opportunity for students to receive additional tutoring support in math and English, for those in summer school or those who needed to address their basic skills deficiencies. In addition, students attended Leadership and Career Development classes that helped them prepare to succeed in their summer internships or work experiences.

Finally, participants in Saturday Success Academy and the Summer Youth Explosion were afforded incentives and extracurricular activities. Representatives from Money Tree provided a grant for financial literacy classes and regional Vice Presidents were on-hand from Bank of Nevada to open savings accounts for many of the youth. Mujahid Ramadan, Chair of the SNWIB Youth Council spoke to the youth during one of the recognition ceremonies.