A Few of the Successes from Connections Camp 2009

The Connections Camp 2009 just continues to amaze us as the outcomes were incredible. Overall, 28 of the Youth are still employed, both of those who attended the camp and of those who were placed in employment with private and non-profit sectors. It is incredible to know that our kids who are the future business owners and entrepreneurs are so underestimated. Amazingly, eight of the students came away from the camp with only one week's worth of technical design training, yet they became employed and within six weeks designed the entire WORKFORCE West Virginia Career Center in Beckley, WV. Our youth have such amazing talents and abilities, none like we have ever experienced before.

We are looking for businesses who are willing to work with our youth on design and training projects. These projects could be as little as 6 weeks of which is plenty of time for students and employers to gain insight as to the talents of our future workforce. If you are interested in working with our students, please email me at maguilar@r1workforcewv.org. Also, you may want to look at the newly released video of the summer initiative created by the team in Region 1. To view the video, please link to http://www.region1workforcewestvirginia.org/index.php?id=video.