Young Adults

Internship programs are a vital piece of our workforce system, giving businesses the opportunity to recruit emerging talent, gain fresh perspective and have an extra hand to assist with projects [...]

Five years ago, Next, our region’s only youth career and employment center, opened its doors to provide holistic career, education, training and support services for young adults ages 16 to [...]

The 2022 Opportunity Youth Report, from Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) and its Columbia-Willamette Workforce Collaborative (CWWC) partners, found that an estimated 34,400 16-to-24-year-olds [...]

As we celebrate Internship Awareness Month, Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW) takes pride in providing internship opportunities to local businesses through two programs, SummerWorks (for high [...]

How would our lives change if we could change our mindset to be prepared to respond to challenges that we come across? That’s what The Underdog Mentality aims to answer. Launched by Tyler Monk in [...]

Launched in Fall 2018 as an initiative of Workforce Southwest Washington (WSW), Next is a youth career and employment center, serving young adults (16 – 24 years old) across Clark, Cowlitz and [...]

When Julie Gorham and Esther Pisano met at a Vancouver gym, there was serendipity in the air. Julie Gorham is the Marketing Architect at Marketing EQ, a marketing agency in Vancouver, WA offering [...]

For summer 2021, WSW is expecting 80 young adults to participate in our SummerWorks program, a 100-hour internship, with approximately 40 businesses hosting the interns. Before the internship [...]

The Future Leaders Project is an initiative of Workforce Southwest Washington, Columbia River Economic Development Council and WSU Vancouver that seeks to connect students from historically [...]