Venue-a-Thon Seeking Talent
The Venue/APFT is looking for performers, volunteers, actors, comedians and talented youth in our community. The Venue-a-Thon is a live broadcast telethon on May 15 benefitting both APFT and KCAT educational programming. For more information, click here.

Project Cornerstone: Asset Champions Breakfast
We encourage you to attend this terrific event on March 24, and to support Project Cornerstone. They do great work and will recognize the 2011 Asset Champions at the breakfast, which will feature our own Los Gatos Police Chief, Scott Seaman. 

Client Profile:   A Place For Teens 

We are very pleased to introduce you to our newest client, A Place for Teens (APFT).  This organization has been providing a fun and safe environment for local teens The Venue for over 25 years.  They were part of the inspiration in forming TeenForce, as we feel that work experience can build on the great opportunities that APFT already provides.   

APFT has recently announced important changes, including hiring Mike Loya as full-time Executive Director.  Mike and the APFT board are working hard to expand the mission of APFT and develop programming that is both fun and sustainable.  We are pleased to be helping the new team with administrative assistance for the next few weeks.  And, we look forward to growing together with APFT as we each rely on our

strengths to help develop healthy, caring and responsible youth. 

We encourage you to visit the APFT web site and to support their upcoming Venue-a-thon, which showcases our talented youth on KCAT television.  This program was successful in its first year in 2010 and they are looking to build on and exceed that performance this year. 

Call for Help:  Community Training Partners

We are thrilled to have provided work experience to 49 teens so far.  But, we have met with 150 teens, which means that there are over 100 who haven't directly benefitted from their time with TeenForce yet.  We want to provide job search and skills training services to these youth while we are seeking work assignments for

Elly Detweiler

them.    

If you or your company can provide training, please contact Elly Detweiler, our Youth Development Coordinator.  Elly will work with you to handle the administrative details, recruiting, scheduling, etc. 

We look to you to provide the curriculum and training.

We are open to any training ideas that you have.  These are some of the areas we have discussed:  Social media marketing, office equipment skills, retail skills, sales skills, resume writing, interviewing, web development, food safety, medical office skills, and receptionist.  We look forward to hearing from you, our talented audience!  

Summer Internships:  Now is the time!

Nancy Westreich, our Director of Internships, has been hard at work connecting with employers and teens to create terrific matches for career-oriented summer opportunities.    

Nancy Westreich

Our program is uniquely suited for small to medium businesses that may not have considered an internship program before because they don't feel they have the resources to recruit, select, structure, train, etc.  We can help cut through many of these issues, all the way to helping craft a job description for the summer assignment.  And, of course, we can streamline the selection process and remove all of the administrative and hiring hassle with our staffing model.  We can assure you that the end result will be an enriching experience for both the student and the employer.  Please think about your own businesses and your associates and contact Nancy to see how she can help you create a great opportunity for our local youth.