Teen Staff Build Workforce and Leadership Skills

Over the summer, 29 teen staff developed workforce and leadership skills through projects and creating community resources.

The teen staff were divided into 3 teams. The Smoke Free Chinatown team created bilingual pamphlets about tobacco and nicotine for the community. The Special Projects team led professional development workshops for fellow youth on topics of time management, networking, and budgeting. They also led an external training on Listening Partnerships for a virtual women's group at UMass Boston's Asian American Student Success Program. Lastly, the Red Oak team tutored school aged children, provided academic lessons, and led enrichment activities.

All teens participated in youth-led and staff-led professional development workshops on goal setting and impact storytelling. Youths learned about different careers through volunteers and went through mock interviews to get feedback on their resumes, cover letters, and interviewing skills.

Teens also tackled difficult conversations about racial justice through workshops on bystander intervention, Asian American identities, the model minority myth, power and oppression, Black Lives Matter, and anti-Blackness in Asian American communities.

Special thanks to the City of Boston, Tufts Medical Center, John Hancock MLK Scholars, and The Boston Foundation My Summer in the City for their support.