Young People Earning, Learning, and Working: SEEED is recruiting students for enrollment, as well as professionals and employers to volunteer their expertise for the Spring 2022 Career Readiness Program.
SEEED, it’s not misspelled or a typo, but an acronym for “Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development,” which offers pathways out of poverty to young adults 18-24 years old.
After a pandemic pause, SEEED is excited to offer its 2022 Spring Career Readiness Program and to reengage community support to uplift Knoxville’s most vulnerable young adults.
The Spring 2022 Career Readiness Program training course begins Feb. 8, through March 31, 2022. The CRP is an 8-week course that meets three days a week, 11 am to 4 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with a break for lunch (that may be provided). Space is limited to only 12 students. Applications are accepted now! Interested participants should apply here seeedknox.org.
The 8-week “paid” accelerated course is structured to equip young adults with the needed training to find and keep a job in their chosen field. The CRP prepares young adults for the next step towards a sustainable and rewarding lifestyle. through teaching life skills, job skills, and job placement assistance.
The course is structured to prepare young adults for the next step towards a successful and rewarding lifestyle through, assisting with obtaining a GED, teaching life skills, job skills, and getting and keeping a job.
The 8-week CRP condensed curriculum:
- Teaching life skills – Assistance in creating a personal and professional development plan, time and budget management, personal accountability, conflict resolution, critical thinking and teaching the value of community service and engagement.
- Job acquisition training – Job interview practice, building a resume, dressing for success, job shadowing, casual networking with potential employers, and scheduling actual job interviews.
The paid Career Readiness training (CRP) teaches life and job skills, healthy living, emotional and mental health management. “Nothing stops a bullet like a job,” according to CEO Stan Johnson who stands firmly on that principle.
SEEED GREW TO WATER SEEDLINGS
While volunteering at nonprofit Tribe One in 2009, Stan, Joshua Outsey, Jarius Bush and Jerome Johnson became deeply engaged in a conversation about the emerging green economy and how they could help to prepare low-income young people in Knoxville to fill be skilled and ready to fill those jobs.
Since then, many young adults have completed the program and went from homeless to building homes, from drifting to finding purpose, from high school drop-outs to trade school and college grades.
SEEED has established partnerships with area reputable businesses, employers, agencies and organizations that provide training in key areas. Classes are taught by volunteer qualified instructors with years of experience in their respective fields.
The program invites qualified volunteers interested in passing their knowledge and expertise forward by instructing/speaking to a class at the SEEED facility at xxxx Dandridge Ave, or in a field trip to their office or worksite. If you are interested, please contact Program Coordinator Darcy Ayers by email at (darcy@seeedknox.org).
The support of SEED partners is crucial to the success of students in the Career Readiness Program – for each one, to teach one.
The Career Readiness Program emphasizes classroom team participation and culminates in an individual project. The course is structured to build self-awareness and skills to enable and inspire participants to plan and take active steps towards the future of their choice. The program strives to develop the intellectual, creative, and social capacities of Knoxville’s young adults to find fulfilling, purposeful, and stable work and a means to contribute to their communities.
Upon successful completion of the CRP, graduates have the option to immediately continue in a SEEED Bootcamp. The 4-week Bootcamp (April 12 – May 5) offers hands-on experience and intensive training in one of the three fields listed:
- Community Engagement
- Green Construction
- Edible Forest
For more information and to get involved; visit the website at seeedknox.org; email darcy@seeedknox@gmail.com; or call 865.766.5185.
ABOUT: SEEED is a non-profit organization co-founded by Stan Johnson in 2xxx. The office, classrooms and Edible Forest are at 1617 Dandridge Ave. in the Morningside Center near Haley Heritage Square.