WorkReady Summer Programs

MET WorkReady Summer Program provides job related skills training, career and employment preparation services, public/private relationship building community engagement services, job shadowing and institutional job placement exposure. Students receive hourly wages, engage in role playing and work site practice experiences and diversified entreprenuership training and work site placements.

We will only accept youth who we share our code with. The Netter Center & Philadelphia Youth Network School-Year and Summer WorkReady Programs recruit current 6th–12th graders ages 12 and up in Philadelphia to participate in a unique internship experience. Students will learn about a variety of career and college pathways, engage in professional development sessions and participate in virtual trips and guest speaker sessions to increase their knowledge and understanding of different careers. Students who are selected will be eligible for a stipend.

seeks to build the individual and collective power of youth to make positive change in their communities. Our program design achieves this through project based learning that is tied to community issues of importance to the youth; that places a heavy emphasis on teamwork and cooperation; that reaches out to community organizations as partners; and that includes technological and creative arts components. Through this process, youth develop the cognitive, social and civic skills and knowledge

Freedom Schools Literacy Academy offers summer and afterschool programming to: Provide teaching apprenticeships and access to in-classroom teaching experiences, mentorship and professional development to promising high school students, college students and paraprofessionals. Help increase the literacy skills, phonemic awareness, academic confidence and positive racial identity and belongingness of Black scholars in kindergarten through second grade.

Please join us for the Summer Niche Jobs program! All youth who join our program will receive a combination of financial literacy and internship experiences aligned to their future dream jobs or niches. Youth will learn about investing, banking, and financial planning. Youth will travel to, improve upon, observe, and work for a variety of Philadelphia-based businesses and agencies to explore their future career interests.

Our WorkReady program is an extension of our innovative one-year Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources CTE program. Youth engage in service learning on sustainable product making: food waste & composting; food safety (serve-safe food handler certification); and many options for natural resources projects. All participants engage in small business accelerator activities, financial literacy, food growing and cooking and product making, marketing, and sales. And field trips!

To Our Children’s Future With Health, Inc. provides workforce development training in-person at the Overbrook High School. We use a workforce readiness approach providing technical education training in Electrical, Customer Sales and Services, and Information Technology; and Community Advocacy (Philly On The Come Up) for youth in 9th-12th grades living in West Philadelphia. All youth receive Career Workforce Development and social emotional training to strengthen employment skills.

We ONLY serve students currently enrolled at the Workshop School. The Workshop School offers current Workshop students the opportunity to participate in a WorkReady Summer experience that is an extension and expansion of work students participate in during the academic year. In previous years, students participated in mural making, completed automotive projects, and engaged in internship opportunities across the city. Staff at Workshop are working hard to confirm our program offerings for summer 2023. Stay tuned for more information!