City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0311R

• File #: 11-0311R
• Version: 0
• Name: Expanding YouthWorks into a Year-Round Program
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 8/15/2011
• In control: City Council
• Title: Expanding YouthWorks into a Year-Round Program FOR the purpose of calling on the Mayor and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development to add a year-round component to YouthWorks in order to allow it to better meet the needs of Baltimore’s young people.
• Sponsors: William "Pete" Welch, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, Carl Stokes, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, President Young
• Indexes: Resolution, Youthworks

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/15/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
8/15/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Welch

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Expanding YouthWorks into a Year-Round Program

FOR the purpose of calling on the Mayor and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development to add a year-round component to YouthWorks in order to allow it to better meet the needs of Baltimore’s young people.
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Recitals

The 2011 YouthWorks program ended just over a week ago on Friday, August 5th. Through this program, as has been the case every summer for nearly three decades, thousands of Baltimore City youth received their first introduction to the working world and thousands more added vital job skills and experience to their resumes.

As we reflect on the continued success of the YouthWorks program it is also appropriate to consider how the program could be expanded and improved to continue building on these successes. One question that springs to mind concerns the end date for the annual YouthWorks program; or, rather, why it should have a fixed end date at all.

YouthWorks offers jobs to youth ages 14 to 21, a demographic currently suffering with a staggering 30% unemployment rate. This intimidating job market does not magically improve on August 5th. Many student’s seeking after school work, or young people looking for their first positions as their school days draw to a close, could benefit from the entry and training level posit...