The Youth Employment Initiative — a new effort to provide summer and year-round jobs for Cincinnati area young people — has reached 80 percent of its job-creation goals, with 1,778 hired this spring.

TO REGISTER

• The Urban League, 3458 Reading Road, Avondale, is the lead agency for screening and training candidates for unsubsidized jobs with private employers. Enrollment hours: 4-6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and noon-4 p.m. Saturday, through June 1.     • Citizens' Committee on Youth and Community Action Agency, 2147 Central Ave., West End, is enrolling youths for subsidized jobs. Registration at CCY ends today.

        But there is still time for youths in need of jobs to enroll in the program, open to 14- to 22-year-olds throughout Hamilton County.

        “We're trying to get the word out to youth and their parents that jobs are still available,” said Simeon Goodwin, the program's director.

        So far, 1,130 youths ages 14-15 have enrolled in the program for “subsidized jobs” — jobs at non-profit organizations that are paid by city government, foundations and others, Mr. Goodwin said.

        An additional 648 youths ages 16-22 have enrolled to be placed in “unsubsidized” jobs with private employers, he said.

        The jobs begin at the end of the school year.

        Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Murray's first job will be working from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays with children at LeBlond Community Center's summer camp program in the East End.

        The East End teen will be chaperoning kids on field trips, doing arts and crafts with them, and helping with summer school homework.

        “I like kids,” said Jeremy, a Parham School eighth-grader who aspires to become a computer engineer. “Just being around them and playing.”

        Mr. Goodwin said the program hopes to enroll 1,200 youths for subsidized jobs and 1,000 for unsubsidized jobs in total. All will receive job-readiness training through the Youth Employment Initiative, he said.

        Organizers hope to raise more than $2 million for this year's program. The city is providing $300,000, while business and community leaders have pledged more than $350,000. Enquirer staffer Annie-Laurie Blair contributed.
       

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