The Cookie Cart is a youth employment program that provides quality, paid, first-time employment training for neighborhood teens. Through the retail bakery, youth age 15-18, get hands-on job training and learn basic employment skills such as appropriate work behavior, time management and problem-solving. The multi-year evaluation looks at the effectiveness of the program in helping youth gain employment skills.
This report includes results of a parent survey completed in 2019 that asked parents to evaluate their child’s improvement in core outcome areas. It also includes employment data for youth who successfully completed Cookie Cart training between 2013 and 2018.
This report includes results of a parent survey completed in summer 2018 that asked parents to evaluate their child’s improvement in core outcome areas. It also includes employment data for youth who successfully completed Cookie Cart training between 2012 and 2017.
The Cookie Cart, a youth employment program in North Minneapolis, provides quality, paid, first-time employment training for neighborhood teens. Through the retail bakery, youth age 14-17 get hands-on job training and learn basic employment skills such as appropriate work behavior, time management, and problem-solving. The multi-year evaluation looks at the effectiveness of the program in helping youth gain employment skills.
The Cookie Cart, a youth employment program in North Minneapolis, provides quality, paid, first-time employment training for neighborhood teens. Through the retail bakery, youth age 14-17 get hands-on job training and learn basic employment skills such as appropriate work behavior, time management, and problem-solving. The multi-year evaluation looks at the effectiveness of the program in helping youth gain employment skills.
Cookie Cart is a nonprofit employment program that offers young people ages 15 through 18 an opportunity to build life, interpersonal, leadership, and transferable job skills through training and employment at a commercial bakery with a retail store. This is a summary of the full evaluation report.
Cookie Cart is a nonprofit employment program that offers young people ages 15 through 18 an opportunity to build life, interpersonal, leadership, and transferable job skills through training and employment at a commercial bakery with a retail store. The program provides a first paid job experience for participants and helps them develop the skills necessary to transition to traditional employment. This is the full evaluation report.
Cookie Cart is a nonprofit employment program that offers young people ages 15 through 18 an opportunity to build life, interpersonal, leadership, and transferable job skills through training and employment at a commercial bakery with a retail store. The program provides a first paid job experience for participants and helps them develop the skills necessary to transition to traditional employment. In order to assess the effectiveness of the Cookie Cart strategy in helping youth gain employment skills, Cookie Cart contracted with Wilder Research to design an evaluation of the program. This is a summary of the full evaluation report.
Cookie Cart is a nonprofit employment program that offers young people ages 15 through 18 an opportunity to build life, interpersonal, leadership, and transferable job skills through training and employment at a commercial bakery with a retail store. The program provides a first paid job experience for participants and helps them develop the skills necessary to transition to traditional employment. In order to assess the effectiveness of the Cookie Cart strategy in helping youth gain employment skills, Cookie Cart contracted with Wilder Research to design an evaluation of the program. Both participants and parents are involved in the evaluation.
Cookie Cart, a youth employment program in NorthMinneapolis provides quality, paid, first-time employment training for neighborhood teens. The program�s unique combination of environment (a community, nonprofit bakery), classroom training, and peer team building provides youth ages 15-17 the opportunity to gain transferable job, life, interpersonal, and leadership skills. This report summarizes the results of surveys completed by youth and their parents over the last two years. In the current year (2011-2012), youth participation decreased slightly compared to the previous year, while parent participation decreased significantly.
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