{"id":66,"date":"2015-07-15T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2015-07-15T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T17:48:55","slug":"youthworks-is-preparation-for-the-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/2015\/07\/15\/youthworks-is-preparation-for-the-future-2\/","title":{"rendered":"YouthWorks is Preparation for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/IMG_0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/IMG_0009-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford talks to YouthWorks students about the positive experience gained from a summer job.  \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/IMG_0009-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/07\/IMG_0009-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford talks to YouthWorks students about the positive experience gained from a summer job.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the YouthWorks Kick-off last\u00a0Monday, I looked out at the 64 students participating in the program and I felt confident about the future. Sitting there were potential future CEOs, community leaders, public officials \u2013 maybe even a Secretary of the Department of General Services! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Indeed, as our guest speaker, Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, noted, he never thought he\u2019d be Maryland\u2019s Lieutenant Governor when he got his first summer job as a dishwasher.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The students include 23 interns who have been placed in various divisions within DGS, 24 interns placed at the Maryland State Department of Education\u2019s Baltimore City headquarters, and 17 students placed at the Department of Human Resources. YouthWorks started on June 25 and runs until\u00a0July 31. The program gives Baltimore City youth between the ages of 14 and 21 opportunities to work with mentors who are helping them develop positive work habits and job readiness skills. And the students are getting training in financial literacy and guidance in developing a personal career portfolio. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The program\u2019s slogan, \u201c<\/span>Summer Jobs Launch Careers,&#8221; speaks to the future, because the YouthWorks experience is also a launching pad to adulthood. The students are instilled with a work ethic that will serve them well throughout their lives, as well as responsibility, accountability and respect for authority. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">I\u2019m so excited about DGS\u2019s participation in this program. We\u2019re making it a worthwhile experience that the students can look back on and say it made a positive difference. Maybe five or\u00a0ten years from now, one of these students will return as a DGS employee.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the YouthWorks Kick-off last\u00a0Monday, I looked out at the 64 students participating in the program and I felt confident about the future. Sitting there were potential future CEOs, community leaders, public officials \u2013 maybe even a Secretary of the Department of General Services! Indeed, as our guest speaker, Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford, noted, he<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/2015\/07\/15\/youthworks-is-preparation-for-the-future-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secretarys-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}