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Crittenton, Inc. was established in Boston, MA in 1836, to provide temporary homes, employment assistance, and guidance for young women who came to Boston from farms and foreign countries. [10] Until its merger with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in 2006, [ 8 ] Crittenton, Inc. offered programs in housing, education and child-care ...
Youth on Board (YOB) was a nonprofit youth empowerment program based in the Boston, Massachusetts area for more than 20 years. It was a youth-led, adult supported program that worked in more than 5 countries, 27 states, and over 100 schools. It was a project of YouthBuild USA.
With a $1.7 billion annual budget (in 2014 and 2018), it is the U.S. Department of Labor's largest-budget training program, providing about 37,000 training slots for young people annually. [2] [3] Starting in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered the closure of Job Corps physical sites, and the organization attempted to shift to online ...
In July 2024, American Student Assistance partnered with Jobs for the Future to create a new center to empower individuals ages 16-24 to navigate education and career pathways after high school by providing access to career resources and opportunities. [12]
The Boston Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) (est.1866) [1] [2] was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, "to aid the young working-women of Boston, without regard to their religious belief." It was incorporated in 1867 by Pauline A. Durant, Ann Maria Sawyer, Hannah A. Bowen, and Clara L. Wells. [ 3 ]
Career Pathways is a workforce development strategy used in the United States to support students' transition from education into the workforce. This strategy has been adopted at the federal, state and local levels in order to increase education, training and learning opportunities for America’s current and emerging workforce .
Breaktime is a part of the City of Boston's long term plan, "Rising to the Challenge," to end young adult homelessness in Boston [4] and is one of the 54 recipients of the City of Boston's 2022 Youth Development Fund, which provides $1.25 million in funding for youth and young adult violence prevention.
Prior to his arrival at Boston College, Harrington was an executive with Hewlett-Packard Company for twenty years. Harrington's teaching and research focuses on career management and work-life integration, mobilizing and leading organizational change, and contemporary workforce management strategies. In the past two years, Harrington and his ...