Enroll In 16-Week Ex-Offender Training Program At Kennedy-King College

Second changes are hard to come by when you have a criminal record. But the Chicagoland Youth and Adult Training Center is all about making second chances a reality. The CYATC is a progressive educational initiative designed to train ex-offenders and at-risk young adults in automotive repair techniques.

The organization is a unique collaborative effort among Ford Motor Company, the New Cities Ministers Coalition, the Pastor’s Network, the Baptist Ministers Conference of Chicago and Vicinity, Kennedy-King College, the Cook County Juvenile Court Division, the City of Chicago’s Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, and the Metro Chicago Lincoln Mercury and Ford dealers associations. The partnership demonstrates how private sector, faith based community organizations and the government, can join together to achieve a win-win result for everyone involved.

Currently, the training center is seeking applicants for a free, 16-week class to teach ex-offenders how to repair small engines and outdoor power equipment. Participants will receive vocational and soft skills training, employment placement assistance and may be eligible to earn a small stipend while enrolled.

One caveat: CYATC programs are for serious learners only: students are expected to be on time for class, and actively participate classwork, jobs searches and other related activity. Students who are late either for program application, orientation or classes will be banished from the program. All students are expected to help one another succeed.

The next session of classes will begin in late January, 2009.

Students will meet three times a week from 5 to 9pm @

Kennedy-King College, 747 W. 63rd Street, Building V, Room V-229, in Chicago

Contact:

Chicagoland Youth and Adult Training Center

Phone: 773.783.4022 or 773.960.7715

Email: brianlbanks@ameritech.org