If participants are interested, they will be permitted to stop their weekend work and work 30 hours during various summer programs. Existing staff, who have volunteered to participate in the program, have been rescheduled to supervise three crews. On Saturday they will work in the district mowing and cleaning parks, ballfields, and parkways. An effort is made to have three youths of various ages and from different backgrounds on a crew to provide diversity to the mentorship effort.
Some youth are more at risk than others and are integrated into the appropriate crews.
Crew Leaders are volunteers, who have been hand selected and provided with training and an orientation program to better equip them for this program. The program criteria mandates participants to stay in school in order to keep their job.