A publication of Flint & Genesee Education & Talent,
a division of the Flint & Genesee Group
Summer Youth Initiative: Meet the 2022 Employers
Each year, Summer Youth Initiative (SYI) connects hundreds of TeenQuest graduates to employers seeking to fill summer job openings. Recently, more than 25 businesses and nonprofit organizations met with local high school students and recent graduates at the SYI Job Fair, held April 30 at Genesee Career Institute.
Full STEAM Ahead: Promoting STEAM in afterschool and home
While YouthQuest is continually empowering students to explore science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics, or STEAM, the afterschool program believes so much in the importance of these fields that it also offers something called STEAMQuest at least once a year.
On the Job: La’Asia Johnson
It’s been just over a decade since La’Asia Johnson graduated from TeenQuest and participated in Summer Youth Initiative (SYI). Twelve years later, she’s getting involved with SYI again. This time, however, she’s not working for the program. She’s serving as an employer.

YouthQuest Highlights: April
In April, students had story time with a local author, played make-believe on the high seas, learned how to sew in advance of a fashion show and helped prepare their school's garden for warmed weather.
YouthQuest Highlights: April
TeenQuest’s final session of the 2021-22 school year wrapped up in April with a graduation ceremony at Grand Blanc High School. Here, one of the alumni, Ceana Thornton, reflects on her experience in the program.
YouthQuest, TeenQuest and Summer Youth Initiative are programs of the Flint & Genesee Education & Talent, a division of the Flint & Genesee Group, and funded in part by Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Centers.