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New Brunswick, New Jersey (1)
Grant Period: 1996 - 1999
Community Initiative
The first New Brunswick Bridge to Employment (BTE) partnership, funded by Johnson & Johnson, began in 1996 with the formation of a partnership between New Brunswick Public Schools, New Brunswick Tomorrow, and Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters. The BTE grant supported the New Brunswick School-to-Work initiative, a five year plan to bring systemic change to the New Brunswick public schools.
The BTE program offered work-based learning experiences for 11th and 12th grade participants, field trips, CPR courses, and opportunities for working with mentors. Over the course of the three-year award, the BTE partnership also:
- Established a career center at a local high school;
- Developed a K-12 Career Development Curriculum; and
- Collaborated with Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce to create the Educators Institute.
As a result of the program, students became aware of career possibilities in science, technology, and health care fields and talked to career counselors about post-secondary education and training opportunities. Before the BTE-initiated career center, students and adults involved in the program reported that the young people had little awareness of possible career choices. According to data collected by the BTE program evaluators, over 75 percent of the students in a participating high school used the services offered at the career center.
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