Officials celebrate the opening of the RISE Innovation Center the The Warehouse in Wilmington on April 11. | DBT PHOTO BY JACOB OWENS
WILMINGTON – Hundreds of city teens have explored career pathways through The Warehouse’s teen career training program in the Riverside community, and thanks to new support they will be able to better explore entrepreneurship too.
Called Reaching and Investing in Youth for Sustainable Employment, or RISE, the 26-week program runs out of the nonprofit community center that provides teens and young adults, ages 14-24, with the skills needed to secure sustainable employment. Since its launch in 2021, more than 300 youth have been employed through the program.
The first eight weeks of RISE are spent developing soft skills such as financial literacy, time management, conflict resolution, and more, while the following eight weeks are spent in…
