Summer Youth Business Camp

The Prevention Force Family Center worked with 14 young people between the ages 13 to 18 years old this summer. The youth were hired to work with other youth participating in the Summer Youth Business Camp program. The programs included were the Hip Hop Dance Club, Junior Digital Photographer, The Teen-N- Talent Design Club, Make A Job: Future Entrepreneur Team, North Lawndale Friends of Library I Dare to Dream Garden Club and I Dare to Dream Club at varies sites.

The youth workers were trained in the clerical field. They also learned basic job skills that included completing time sheets, work schedules, working with office machines, and learning company policies. They learned how to properly introduce themselves, and explain who they were to others. The workers participated in planning and organizing summer community activities at Douglass Library Branch, Fifth City organization, and North Lawndale Friends of Library . The youth workers attended staff meeting every day and worked on team community projects. In additional, they learned about saving accounts and banking services from a Washington Mutual bank employee. Some of the young people opened a saving account at Washington Mutual Bank.



The youth workers visited Hamburger University(McDonald Training Center) in Oak Brook, Illinois. They were able to learn about the history of McDonald Corporation, and the training that the university offered to restaurant managers, mid-managers, and Executives. Many of the youth had been interested in working at the McDonald Restaurant's in their community, but after touring the university they became interested opening a franchise, and
working at a local McDonalds.