Minnesota Teen Challenge
Walmart Associates,
Minnesota Teen (and adult) Challenge is excited to be a participant in the Walmart Foundation’s Associate Choice Program!
We strive to meet the needs of underserved populations in Minnesota and help individuals access to a better life.
If chosen as the “Associate Choice Winner,” Minnesota Teen Challenge will utilize funds to reduce relapse, crime, loss prevention and unemployment by providing over 400 teens and adults with job training, counseling and support services to help improve work-related skills before they graduate from our program. Funds would provide:
1. Tutor support to program participants who struggle with reading or need computer training so they could get a fresh start on their education, complete a high school degree or GED, or put together a resume and fill out a job application.
2. Job skill certification for work activities and duties completed while in the year-long recovery process such as home health aide, customer service, small engine repair and administrative assistant to increase dependability, responsibility, punctuality, thoroughness (residents fulfill 20-hours of work experience each week.)
3. Recruit corporate volunteers as job coaches and mentors to provide life skill training to our residents on financial literacy, how to maintain a good credit rating, interviewing techniques, keeping a job, or putting together a resume and filling out a job application.
4. Provide individual career assessment tests to determine ability and the skill level required for success in the workplace
5. Cultivation of face-to-face connections with area businesses and employers to create an "Employer Network" willing to provide three, six or nine month employment opportunities to program graduates.
The Associates Choice Award would be promoted on the Minnesota Teen Challenge website, in newsletters to over 8,000 donors and supporters, at our community events such as our Annual Golf Tournament and our Walk for Hope. In addition, our community liaison would recognize Walmart's support in face-to-face connections with area corporations, business owners and employment managers to promote Walmart Foundation’s Associate Choice Program.
