YOUTH INTERN PLACEMENTS NEEDED
Do you have an interest in hiring a youth intern (with barriers) this summer? Keep reading if you would consider it and I will provide some further explanation from
Christine Ameigh,
Owner of Slide Food Cart and Beyond Catering,
Director of Let's Eat Out!, and
Director of Carts for Community.
This is the third year of our program in partnership with Briarpatch Youth Services. We are looking for 20 or so small, local food businesses where the youth will have an opportunity to work directly with entrepreneurs.
Details of the program:
Business owner will interview eligible youth for summer employment by mid-April
- Youth will receive basic customer service and food preparation training prior to their first day of work.
- Youth will receive ServSafe training and take the ServSafe test prior to their first day of work.
- Carts For Community will be an available liaison throughout the employment. As these are some of Madison's highest risk youth, there may be a need for assistance in communicating with and understanding the youth. C4C will be on-call should the immediate need for assistance surface.
- Youth must be paid $9 per hour - if the required hours are met, business owner will be reimbursed for 60 of the total hours.
- Business owner must agree to employ the intern a total of 120 hours from June 17 - August 19, an average of about 15 hours per week.
- Business owner must commit to a 3-4-hour training session on how to work with youth who have barriers and commit to our code of ethics.
- Business owner must commit to a 4-hour retreat with their new intern (June 12th).
- Business owner must legally employ the youth on reported payroll and carry workman's compensation insurance (if this is your only barrier to hiring, we can help on our end).
- Youth will not be able to work on Fridays, as they have training that day.
I realize that this was a lot of information up front. I appreciate you making it this far! I would like to plan a business owner orientation meeting for February. This meeting will go into further detail about the program. You will also hear from business owners who have hired an intern in the last two years and from one of our interns from last summer.
Please respond to me directly if you would be interested in attending the meeting and I will put together another email with further details about the orientation. Attending the orientation will not commit you to the program, it will just provide further information about it.
Even if you had an intern in the past two years, I strongly encourage your interest in attending the meeting, as some things have changed and improved!
Thank you,
Christine Ameigh
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