Quick and Easy: The Art of Work Gala

Celebrate Youth Job Center’s 30th anniversary and support underprivileged youth with job-readiness and placement programs. The Youth Job Center (YJC) has been a leading provider of employment-related services for disadvantaged and at-risk youth in Evanston and Chicago, and they’ve served more than 20,000 young people during their 30-year history. YJC was founded on the belief […]

by Lisa Zimbler

Because Young Women Are Precious: Youth Job Center of Evanston

Precious Wright, 25, may be as young as the women she’s advising, but her words carry an authority beyond her years. Wright, the program coordinator for WILL (Women Invested in Learning & Livelihoods) at the Youth Job Center of Evanston, was once a DCFS ward of the state. Three foster homes, one diploma from Walter […]

by Laura Tiebert