Stambaugh Avenue Project5/24/2018 YouthBuild Columbus Community school completes service project; house for a homeless Vietnam Veteran. People came from near and far to celebrate, cookout and provide landscaping finishing touches. Notables attendees included the President of Columbus City Counsel and WOSU. Soon we will have a new documentary from WOSU to share!
Way to go YouthBuild Construction. Pre-Apprenticeship Program3/8/2018 YouthBuild Columbus Community School is named as an approved Pre-Apprenticeship Program for their amazing Construction Department to allow students to obtain 12 points towards End of Course exams and therefore graduation.
#YOUTHBUILD YB Earns Auditor of State Award3/2/2015 Each year, the Auditor of State hands out awards to public entities that file timely financial reports in accordance with GAAP, as well as receive a "clean" audit report. YouthBuild Columbus Community School also received this award in 2013. The press release from the Ohio Auditor of State can be found here. 
New Graduation Requirements12/30/2014 Ohio House Bill 487 establishes new requirements for graduation beginning with the class of 2018, or this year's 9th graders. Students in 10th grade or those repeating 9th grade will continue to fall under the old graduation requirements. Mainly, those students will continue to take the Ohio Graduation Tests. Students entering 9th grade in 2014-15 will be required to take end-of-course exams in English I and II, algebra I, geometry, integrated math I and II, physical science, American history and American government. Each test is scored 1-5 and students must earn a combined 18 points on those exams to qualify for graduation.
For more information on the new assessments and graduation requirements, visit the Ohio Department of Education Testing page. Class of 20146/6/2014 YouthBuild Columbus Community School congratulates its 8 graduates for the Class of 2014. The ceremony was held at the Gateway Health and Wellness Center on Jefferson Avenue, Friday, June 6, 2014. Four graduates received their STNA completion certificates and four received their NCCER certificates along with diplomas and AmeriCorps awards. National YouthBuild Day4/15/2014 YouthBuild Columbus Community School and Franklin County Youth Over Us partnered together to do community service for National YouthBuild Day. The day consisted of picking up litter from 5th Avenue to 11th Avenue in Columbus. Also three picnic tables were built with the help of Home Depot and three gardens were prepared for new plants, by pulling weeds and mulching the area. The greatest part of the day was clearing a large area of debris, moving rock and dirt to prepare the ground for a future community greenhouse. National YouthBuild day was celebrated with a cookout for all of the participants. YouthBuild Columbus Community School graduated twenty-seven students today at the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Columbus. The students left the ceremony with a high school diploma and various other certificates in nurse assisting, construction, and AmeriCorps. Check out some of the pictures of our graduates below!  YouthBuild Columbus Community School hosted theYouthBuild USA SMART Summer Training Conference in July, 2012. Conference attendees were treated to some real YBCCS hospitality, with Mr. Butler grilling up burgers and dogs, and Mr. Steward overseeing daily breakfast and local transportation for our visitors. Mr. Porter even got all the school walls re-painted and the floors cleaned and polished in time for the start of the conference. Truly, YBCCS shined in more ways than one. YouthBuild SMART (Start Making A Real Transformation) is a new DOL-funded re-entry program for recently adjudicated youth and young adults. YBCCS, along with its sister GED-track program, Franklin County YouthBuild, represent Columbus as one of nine sites located across the county that were chosen to participate in the SMART initiative. The other YouthBuild SMART sites are located in California, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.  Click for Conference Highlights We are proud to represent the Midwest in this innovative program, which seeks to apply a YouthBuild model offering special features to meet the special needs of a problematic target population. Participant counseling and program orientation often begin behind the prison walls prior to release. To help support the transformation process, immediately after enrollment SMART participants are paired with mentors, many of whom themselves had brushes with the law in their youth. In addition to YouthBuild's customary training in home construction skills, SMART offers flexible training in other vocational tracks. Here in Columbus, we are offering nursing assistant and technology training, and hope to have a logistics training track in place for the start of the 2013-14 school year.
YouthBuild Columbus Community School graduated nine students today at Columbus State Community College's Center for Workforce Development. The students left the ceremony with a high school diploma and various other certificates in nurse assisting, construction, and AmeriCorps. Check out some of the pictures below! |
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