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SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Youth Advocates of Sitka students will shortly be peddling smoothies and coffee as a approach to benefit genuine life work experience.
A food truck, called Latitude 57, will be a youth-run business, and is set to open shortly, YAS Assistant Director Jessica Clark told Sitka Chamber members during a luncheon in January.
“We’re sharpened for this summer,” she said.
Trainers will work one-on-one with a teenagers to rise interpersonal skills, time management, patron use and income doing skills, Clark said.
“Some youths are going to need a small additional support,” she said.
The youths will acquire vocational credit as good as a contribution for operative on a cart, reported a Sitka Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2jfscfW).
The thought for a smoothie and coffee lorry came during an entrepreneurial category during Pacific High School, where YAS and teenagers talked about what it takes to run a business, she said. Money from a Alaska Mental Health Trust helped buy a truck.
It will be partial of a non-profit mental health agency’s newer practice program, that helps teenagers learn how to find and secure employment, set career goals and even bond them with businesses in a community.
This is a third year of a practice program. YAS is still building it and removing it established, Clark said.
A pre-employment life skills category covers all from cover letters to pursuit talk attire.
“If you’re going to go on a fishing boat, don’t go in your three-piece suit,” Clark pronounced as an instance of a life skills lesson.
The classes also cover skills that are critical to business owners here, she said.
Two years ago YAS sent out a consult to 70 business owners with dual ubiquitous questions: What skills are we looking for? Which skills are ordinarily lacking in entry-level candidates?
Fifty-five businesses responded and a formula for both were strikingly similar, Clark said. Employers wish workers who are punctual, reliable, have a clever work ethic and are means to follow directions.
“This is what a business universe is looking for in Sitka,” she said. “When we grown a life skills category that’s what we focused on.”
The module targets youths ages 14 to 21 who have a separator to gaining and progressing employment.
YAS also runs a Hanson House, a residential diagnosis core for kids ages 10-18; healing encourage caring for kids ages 4-21 to assistance those who are traffic with trauma; and a Family Resource Center, where a life skills classes are held, and that is accessible as a protected space used for overdo and prevention.
The non-profit also has community-based programs and partnerships with other organizations such as 4-H, a Sitka Sound Science Center and a Sitka Fine Arts Camp.
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Information from: Daily Sitka (Alaska) Sentinel, http://www.sitkasentinel.com/