Record High for One Summer Chicago Season

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Education

Lawndale News Chicago's Bilingual Newspaper - Education

One Summer Chicago is setting record numbers at the Le Penseur Youth & Family Services Center. The Center is one of nearly 2,000 work sites that are providing a record high 32,000 jobs and internships to youth ages 14-24 this summer, more than double from when the program first began in 2011. The six-week program provides youth with valuable work experience while keeping them safe and engaged during the summer months. Youth working at Le Penseur Youth & Family Services are one of several teams this summer that have been commissioned to build mobile community libraries as part of the new Block Club, Book Club program. The Block Club, Book Club program looks to foster reading by providing neighborhood residents with access to free books ranging from bedtime stories to fictional novels. Le Penseur Youth & Family Services is a partner in the Mayor’s Mentoring Initiative and first began building mobile libraries to better serve the neighborhoods where its young mentees lived.  For more information, or to apply for One Summer Chicago, visit www.onesummerchicago.org

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