YouthWorks Creates Leadership Opportunities for Young Workers

In 2023, near­ly 7,900 Bal­ti­more City youth applied to Youth­Works to gain sum­mer employ­ment expe­ri­ence, and some 500 busi­ness­es, agen­cies and non­prof­its signed on to meet this demand.

The pro­gram — found­ed 50 years ago — oper­ates out of the Bal­ti­more City Mayor’s Office of Employ­ment Devel­op­ment and receives fund­ing from the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion (among other foundations). It is unique in that it guar­an­tees every qual­i­fy­ing appli­cant — Bal­ti­more City youth between the ages of 14 to 21 — at least five weeks of sum­mer employment.

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Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation