How to Develop a Local Manufacturing Youth Internship Program

This Toolkit—How to Develop a Local Manufacturing Youth Internship Program—is for any economic development organization working with urban manufacturers and any youth organization that wants to partner to create a youth internship program.

This Toolkit contains a step by step guide for planning and launching a youth internship program collaboratively. Each organization should read the Toolkit and create a list of local issues not covered by the Toolkit that need to be addressed. During each stage of the program launch, staff can refer to the appropriate Toolkit section. For the business and youth and recruitment and engagement steps in Chapters 3 and 4, you will find estimates of number of hours per business/youth required to complete each step.