Internships for Students Involved With Chicago’s Youth Guidance and All Stars DSY Programs
Each summer, Hilco Global hosts several summer job internships for some of Chicago’s most disadvantaged inner-city youth who are involved with Chicago’s Youth Guidance and All Stars DSY programs.
Youth Guidance is a leading provider of outcomes-driven programs and capacity-building initiatives, directly serving about 11,000 youth in more than 80 Chicago Public Schools across the city of Chicago. The specific and strategically developed delivery areas provided include, Counseling & Prevention; Community & Afterschool; and Youth Workforce Development programs.
All Stars Development School for Youth (DSY) allows inner-city teenagers to learn how to create a professional performance in partnership with corporate leaders. They experience the business world through a series of rigorous, high-level workshops and trainings where they learn to perform as professionals. The students interact with business leaders from top companies at various workshops that train them in leadership and business including resume-writing, networking, public speaking and dressing professionally.
The Hilco Helps internship program works with students from both organizations and it is designed to provide these students with real-life job experience, by helping them build upon the skills learned in the Youth Guidance and All Star programs and giving them the tools they need that they may not otherwise have access to in order to break the cycle of poverty.