hi i'm lola peters and i am honored and privileged to be here with the multimedia resource and training institute having a wonderful experience of being recorded so i can have the opportunity to talk about the things that are important to me about community they do wonderful work in terms of making opportunities for our young people to learn how to use the digital media and how to use communications skills to really get their work done there's nothing more important than being able to communicate and in our world  digital communication is a mind the most important without it then other people get to tell your story and it's you know it's incumbent on us to tell our own stories before other people try and package him in a way that doesn't make get healthy and make it useful for us so i'm excited and thrilled to have been a part of their  process and to use and i'm really really happy and very honored that they would use their skills and their technology  tell my story and to help me get the word out about the book that i'm writing or the book that i've just published called the truth about white people which is about eliminating racism by really confronting the people who perpetuate it i hope you will support their work and both by using their services and  and you hello good afternoon my name is betty and i'm from m m r t i today i have a big announcement specially for you ages fourteen through twenty four this is for an afterschool program which you can work seven days a week i'm going to interview a hello my name is betty and i think you so much for coming to our studio today you can tell us your name and where you are absolutely my name is jennifer also wadi and the manager of the seattle youth employment program with the city of longer just have employment in the summer we decided to go with the trimester model and so there will be three opportunities throughout the year for us to apply and be placed in internships within the city of seattle so  be to open it up to be able to place you all year and not just limited to the summer at the age of limon the eligibility requirements for the program you have to be within the city of seattle you have to reside within the city of seattle you have to be between the ages of fourteen and twenty four and in order to be placed in the program we're looking for youth and young adults who meet our eligibility requirements they also if they don't meet eligibility requirements they can qualify in a couple other ways and maybe come from a single parent home or struggling in school things like that so there are other ways to be qualified besides just  being a low income are there other cities that offer the same programs too there are other cities nationwide that do you can point programs absolutely some very successful ones and and we've looked at those and we really feel very confident about our ability to stack up to those moments where really internship so once of youth applies they'll come in for an interview or i could job skills assessment to kind of learn a little bit more about what you enjoy doing and what you're interested in you'll be offered a placement contingent on a background check and then coming to a pre internship training at that training we're going to help you learn some twenty first century skills like maybe email writing or things like that things that are really important in this day and age we're going to teach some soft skills like how to dress for work how to speak if you're in customer service things like that we'll teach you how to fill out the necessary employment papers time sheets and then once all about is completed you'll be placed in your internship and that'll go for about eight weeks and you're able to do one hundred  fifty hours within that time so there are only a little to do one hundred fifty one hundred fifty hours is the maximum in that eight week period so if you complete that hundred fifty hours in six weeks then the internship would be up or you can take the holy weeks to do it depends on the job that you're placed in and your ability to work based on your age and if you're in school would you like to talk about the piri absolutely based on the city of seattle the youth will be paid fifteen dollars an hour all the youth who apply and get placed in our program will be paid at that rate and there's many different jobs that we work with there are city of seattle jobs like in the government in the human services department like myself i know we take a couple in turns you could work with nonprofit organizations be placed helping their private companies like starbucks or customer service jobs things like that there is lots of partners in it with the city of seattle who take interns so they use their placement they do and they're helped with who we call a youth development counselor and so they're the ones that ask you the questions about what you're interested in and helps you pick out of maybe three potential jobs which one you feel would be the best fit and which one they think that you would find the most enjoyable and we do our best to place you based on your interest so how many  allowed in one organization it really depends a lot on the employer we ask the employer how many interns they feel that they would have the ability to supervise last year we've had places where they would take ten to fifteen other places only are able to take it really depends and this first trimester which actually the application closes on january eighth i believe it is we are looking to place one hundred fifty youth in internships the internships will start february twenty ninth and run through april twenty second in the summer we're looking to place six hundred or so in internships and then in the fall we'll be placing about three hundred so we're looking at placing about a thousand and fifty youth in internships throughout the year and if you apply for the first trimester and you don't get in because of the numbers please apply again because there are opportunities throughout the whole year to apply get placed in an internship and home to complete it sure so the application deadline is january eighth and the best way to apply is  online you can go to the city of seattle and look for the seattle you complained that page and there's a link on there and it's really straightforward easy to do if you're if you don't have access to a computer we do have hard copies you could come down to our office and pick up a hard copy but again the online link is is the easiest way to apply because it's fast and less mistakes in reading ham writing and things like that so what if somebody lives the city of  seattle and they want to apply yeah so unfortunately we only accept who live within city limits but if somebody were to apply or to call us and ask us about that we would refer them out to other organizations that do in turn chips or maybe the county and we know the county has access to things like that so we would we would do our best to get them referrals are they similar to you're going to you know i don't know the answer to that maybe you could research it and tell me from the u s what do we expect from we understand that this for a lot of youth will be their first job and so we just expect their eagerness to learn to show up on time to behave appropriately at a job we don't expect them to come with all the skills that they need because that's what we're there for we're there to help them you'll have a counselor assigned to you that will check in with you throughout the entire in can ship and coach you if you need help with something or if you're not sure what you should do at a specific site that if something comes out but we just want you to will come and be present and do their best and really want to be there to learn you know what is a marriage in the program excellent so last year we did amazing things we went from one thousand to two thousand and the mayor recognizes the importance of engaging youth in our community and giving them the skills and the tools to enter the workforce successfully and we support that one hundred percent in the seattle youth employment program recognizing that the youth are very important in our community and have a lot to g