A Year Up
Subtitle: helping young adults move from poverty to professional careers in a single year
By: Gerald Chertavian
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780143123705
Subjects: Occupational training; Vocational education; Year Up (Organization); Internship programs; Young adults; Poor youth; Employment; Education (Higher)
Other titles: Helping young adults move from poverty to professional careers in a single year
Description: Shares the story of a pioneering program that offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and jobs with leading companies, tracing the progress from admissions through graduation to illuminate student challenges, failures, and successes.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012"--Title page verso.

"A Plume book"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: honk for opportunity; title: "Yo, God. What are you doing?"; title: Brother from another zip code; title: Why is he doing this?; title: Ping me... please?; title: "You don't have a chance in hell"; title: Don't lose it now!; title: Oh, pioneers!; title: "Reach and strive for 2005!"; title: Guilty by association; title: "I am having an intern moment"; title: Abdul, in a state of grace; title: The soul of a new machine; title: "We are one year up"; title: I think that woman saved my life; title: Epilogue: wheels up for opportunity.