Year Up

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The Vision
In the future, every urban young adult will have access to the education, experiences, and guidance required to realize his or her true potential.
The Mission
Year Up's mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.

Year Up achieves this mission through a high support, high expectation model that combines marketable job skills, stipends, internships and college credits. The holistic approach focuses on students' professional and personal development to place these young adults on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency.

Challenging students to reach their potential.

The program emphasizes academic and professional rigor, setting expectations high for quality of work and professional behavior. A strong structure guides students through the steps necessary for achieving success in the classroom and the workplace.

For the first six months of the program, students develop technical and professional skills in the classroom. Students then apply those skills during the second six months on an internship at one of Year Up's 250+ corporate and government partners.

Students earn up to 23 college credits and a weekly stipend, and are supported by staff advisors, professional mentors, dedicated social services staff, and a powerful network of community-based partners.

Since its founding in 2000, Year Up has served over 6,000 young adults

The results
100% placement of qualified Year Up students into internships
Over 90% of corporate partners would recommend the Year Up program to a friend or colleague
84% of graduates are employed or attending college full-time within four months of completing the program.
Employed Year Up graduates earn an average of $15 per hour – the equivalent of $30,000 per year.

• Desktop and Network Support
• Help Desk
• Hardware Repair
• Operating Systems
• Disk Formatting, Partitioning and Ghosting
• Peripherals
• Software Installation
• Viruses and Malware
• Microsoft Office and Outlook
• Networking and TCP/IP
• Investment Operations
• Customer Service
• Fund Accounting

Website: www.yearup.org
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/pages/yearup
Twitter: www.twitter.com/YearUp
YouTube: www.youtube.com/YearUpInc