Expanding Career Connections for Youth in Foster Care

The Works Wonders® curriculum aims to connect young people in foster care with careers that interest them. Under the Works Wonders model, staff members customize learning plans and recruit local companies to employ older youth with foster care experience. Typical programming includes coursework, mentoring, job shadowing, paid internships, and career guidance. This blogpost examines the adaptation and expansion of the Work Wonders model at Monroe Harding (a Nashville-based nonprofit) in Tennessee and Foster Success (a start­up business training program) in Indiana to better serve their local youth.

Record Type: 
Stakeholder Resource
Publication Date: 
December, 2022
Date: 
December 2022
Source: 
Partner Resources
State: 
Indiana
Tennessee
Topics/Subtopics: 
  • Employment
  • Education and Training
  • Special Populations
    • Youth in Transition
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