The DC Business Gun Violence Prevention Coalition, composed of the National Association of Minority Contractors–Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Chapter, Inner Thoughts Inc., and the DC Concerned Black Businesses, will host its third East of the River Jobs Not Guns Youth Career Building Workshop on April 17.
The event is titled “A Road to Employment…Resources in the Neighborhood.” It is scheduled to take place at Ward 8’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church’s Panorama Room, 1600 Morris Road, SE. The event will run from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The Youth Workshop will recruit 75-100 senior high school youth from Wards 7 and 8. These neighborhoods have been identified by the Building Blocks DC, Office of Gun Violence Prevention’s profile and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council as critical areas that have the highest rates of youth violence in the District.
The Coalition is inviting Wards 7 and 8 churches, public and private agencies, elected officials and potential employers to participate in the Youth Workshop to provide assistance for young people to overcome barriers to participating in training and apprenticeship programs.
For more information, contact Rosalind Styles or Dottie Wade at 202-678-8840 or go to the website at jobsnotguns.org.
James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the Washington Informer Newspaper. He has worked for the Washington AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The Washington…
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