Unlock Your Potential This Summer
Earn While You Learn: Youth Employment Opportunities
You May be Eligible to Earn over $4500 this Summer and Make Your Future Even Brighter!
Earn $15/Hr
PT/FT Available
(Up To 320 Hrs)
Supportive Services Available
Youth (Ages 16-24)
Do one of the following barriers apply to you?
High School Dropout
Basic Skills Deficient
Pregnant or Parenting
Homeless or Runaway
In or Aged out of Foster Care
Justice-Involved
Documented Disability
English Language Learner
Receiving TANF or SNAP
Low Income
EMPLOYERS
As an employer, you have a heavy responsibility in running your business, maintaining various aspects of the day-in and day-out operations. Sometimes finding that ideal team member to invest in the growth of your business can’t always be your top priority.
We can match youth, ages 16-24, with employers like yourself, in order to remove your barriers to productivity and their barriers to the start of a successful career.
How Does it Work?
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Our Career Managers work one-on-one with clients to understand their goals and remove any barriers which would keep them from success.
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We then work hard to match our clients to a career pathway that will not only remove their employment barrier, but put them on the road to a future of doing something they actually enjoy.
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Through our work experience and on-the-job training programs, you get a team member who’s ready to work and invest in your business, we cover their wages and workman’s compensation, and they not only get a paycheck, but a peace of mind that what they do matters.
If you’re ready to build a better future for your business while helping the Youth of Missouri build a better future for themselves, we want to help make that happen!
What is WIOA?
WIOA Youth is a federally funded program built to empower youth and foster a modern workforce. WIOA Youth is for individuals between the ages of 14-24 years of age, and assists with a variety of barriers. The purpose of WIOA Youth is to help our youth, our future, to overcome barriers that hinder them from being successful. WIOA Youth program is in place to encourage responsibility, accountability, and self-sufficiency.
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1107 Kingshighway, Rolla, MO 65401
(573) 426-6030
In accordance with 29 CFR 38.9 (g)(3), Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals will receive language assistance in all communications of vital information.
EO Officer - Korin Thurman
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