Creativeworks is a tuition-free, paid internship program supporting youth and young adults' college and career readiness in prince george's county, MD

Creativeworks helps young adults establish a career to build wealth and achieve life goals, through training in creative industry fields and life skills while providing career planning. Activities performed the core creativeworks program involves: 75 hours of technical theater training and projects; 120 hours of digital media training and projects; 60 hours of career and college readiness programming; 25 hours of advanced training work; and 40 hours of storytelling, spoken word, and performance training in phase 1. In phase 2, participants complete: 75 hours of specialized training on their subject of choice; 40 hours of college and job placement support and supervised practice on progress toward goals; 12 hours of exposure through career fair, executive speaker series, and workshops; and a graduation event. In addition to the core program, creativeworks will offer year-round resources for high school seniors and creative suitland RE-entry program participants for career planning to help them meet their career goals. Deliverables each of the 60 participants in the core training cohorts will: graduate on time with a high school degree; create a professional resume and cover letter that can be used to apply for creative employment and educational opportunities; experience applying to five or more employment or educational opportunities; complete an internship; and apply to college, certification programs, and scholarships to support debt-free graduation. Specially, program participants will achieve the following: • at least 85% of participants will complete all program benchmarks. • at least 95% of participants who are high school students will graduate from high school on time. • at least 90% of participants will achieve one or more of these goals: a) enroll in higher learning; B) secure full-time employment; and/or C) commit to further job training. Outcomes of the creativeworks college and career counseling sessions: • serve 40 high school and RE-entry participants • at least 90% of participants will achieve one or more of these goals: a) enroll in higher learning; B) secure full-time employment; and/or C) commit to further job training. Intended beneficiary creativeworks will enroll 100 total participants. Creativeworks fills a large deficit in education, arts-centered programming, and workforce development for some of prince george's county's most underserved residents: youth and young adults of color ages 17-24. JOE's recruits individuals who have enrolled in art classes at local high schools and have expressed an interest in creative industries, as well as students starting arts-related degree programs at pgcc. Participants for an expansion of creativeworks to creative suitland arts center will be recruited via a new arts-based reentry program at creative suitland and local transition houses. Subrecipient activities N/a