Empowering teens with practical life skills and professional training through hands-on internship experiences. Join hundreds of LA youth preparing for success after high school.
Three times a year the CLASS Parks Program runs a new track of YEIP which provides hundreds of teens with pragmatic life skills valuable for facilitating a youth's transition into life after high school. The program focuses on essential competencies including money management, professional etiquette, resume composition, job skills, communication and tolerance.
The life skills instructions are complemented by distinct internship training courses designed to provide hands-on experience in various career paths. Internship training is conducted throughout the school year on designated Saturdays, ensuring accessibility for all participants.
Awards and incentives are given to graduates of the program completing compulsory training hours as required by YEIP guidelines. Participants gain valuable work experience, professional references, and career-ready skills that set them apart in the job market.
Choose your path and develop specialized skills through hands-on training
This highly interactive class involves participants gaining practical knowledge of after-school and day camp programs. Weekly themes will be utilized to enhance creativity and teach activity planning, in regards to arts and crafts, cooking, games, science, nature, sports, and much more.
Participants in this class learn the art of crime scene investigation through hands on experiments followed up by mysteries to solve using the forensic science skills that they've learned. They will gain knowledge in fingerprinting, casting, DNA analysis, toxicology, entomology, blood spatter testing, and deductive reasoning. Participants work with the same materials and equipment that real forensic scientists use.
In this class, participants will receive hands on training and gain knowledge in basic camping and outdoor skills, survival skills, first aid, outdoor cooking, topographical maps, stars, plants and wildlife. Through experiential learning, interns will gain a new understanding of what nature has to offer.
The Technology course specializes in teaching interns technology fundamentals. Interns will gain valuable skills through activities such as coding, robotics, word processing, STEM and more.
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