Amy Bernstein and her mentee Jasmine Henderson. (Photo by Jannah Johnson)
While Summer officially still has several weeks to go, one Summer program is ending. Baltimore’s YouthWorks, which gives student participants internships in the public and private sector for five weeks, ended July 30th.
To mark the occasion the Maryland Department of General Services celebrated those who worked for the Maryland State Department of Education, Department of Human Services, and the Department of General Services .
YouthWorks is a summer placement program in Baltimore City that provides teens in the area with paid internships for five weeks during the summer.
The ceremony took place on a sunny morning and featured speakers such as Brandon Scott, city councilman (District 2), Sam Malhotra, Department of Human Resources secretary and YouthWorks students.
Many of the students had reservations initially about being in the program, but any negative expectations they had quickly dissipated when they were actually in a work environment.
Jasmine Henderson, another student said, “I thought they would be in my face every five minutes telling me what to do. Instead, my mentor took me to meetings and let me work on projects on my own”