Youth Employment in Parks program offers students real world job experience

Some kids need extra help learning what’s expected of them in a work place.
Juneau Parks and Recreation and Southeast Alaska Independent Living have a summer program that gets them outside and teaches them interpersonal skills they’ll need.C. Allen Truitt, who coordinates the Youth Employment in Parks program, drives a bus packed with six teenagers from Zach Gordon Youth Center.
The back is filled with shovels, rakes and wheelbarrows.
“We do things like work on our city tr