Freeholders Appeal to Employers to Join Summer Jobs Initiative for Teens
For Immediate Release: April 15, 2009
Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH

Camden County Freeholders urged employers in and around Camden to participate in the campaign to put trained young people to work this summer under the Summer Help Employ Area Teens (HEAT) program.

“Our goal is to help 300 to 400 young people obtain summer employment in Camden County,” said Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. “Employers should know that each program participant between the ages of 17 and 24 receives at least eight hours of life skills and other job training before being sent in pursuit of a summer job.”

Cappelli said transportation is also provided, either through the South Jersey Transportation Authority or participants are provided a bus pass. Cappelli said the goal for the Summer HEAT Program for now is to create a job bank of at least 600 positions that would provide a minimum of 20-hour work weeks at $10 per hour.

He said many of the employers who participated in 2008 are on board again this year. Included are Live Nation, the Camden River Sharks, Clementon Amusement Park, Adventure Aquarium and Bellmawr Industrial Park.

Cappelli said the staff of the Camden County One Stop Career Center is coordinating the Summer HEAT program in cooperation with Gov. Jon Corzine and state Sen. Dana Redd of Camden. The effort will culminate with a job fair on April 30 at Woodrow Wilson High School. Cappelli added that employers interested in joining the more than dozen already participating should call Frank R. Filipek Jr., assistant director of the One Stop Career Center at 856 968 4230.

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