Columbus Dispatch: “Pathways Project Gives At-risk Youth a Start Toward Technology Jobs”

By Rita Price, The Columbus Dispatch

Stephen Booker has learned plenty over the past eight weeks. He picked up hard skills, soft skills, an information-technology certification and, just as important, the confidence to put it all to use.

"I also learned not to sell myself short," Booker said after his graduation ceremony on Friday at Per Scholas, a nonprofit agency that provides free technology training and employment services.

The Columbus Foundation wants to make such programming available to dozens more young people in Franklin County, and last month it started the Pathways Project to help guide 125 at-risk young adults to in-demand technology careers.

Read the full Columbus Dispatch article here.