Apprenticeships at Oak Park Place

Oak Park Place is proud to offer the Youth Apprenticeship Program with local schools and I, personally, have witnessed encouraging growth in our city’s youth as they advance towards their careers in healthcare. It has been an extremely rewarding experience to host this program on campus […] What helps make this program so effective is […]

Pharis – Youth Apprentice

Youth apprentice at work

I think any person will gain something positive out of the YA program. It gives you real-life experience in a field that school just can’t do. This is what makes YA so great […] My experience with EVCO has driven me to be more interested in engineering, which i am already enthusiastic about. Seeing the […]

Youth Apprentice Hayden

Inside of a manufacturing building with steel pipelines and cables.

Youth apprentice gains skills in manufacturing industry. Hayden is a Belleville High School senior completing his manufacturing youth apprenticeship. His goals after high school are to continue working at Cate Machine & Welding Inc. in Belleville and attend Madison Area Technical College to earn an associate’s degree in automated manufacturing systems. “In year one, I […]

Youth Apprentice Ava

Medical team looking over a chart.

Youth Apprentice continues research and science passion. When Ava was just seven years old, the number one item on her Christmas wish list was a microscope. This gift sparked her interest in science and research – a passion that hasn’t ceased since. Ava graduated from a youth apprenticeship program through DeForest High School working as […]

Youth Apprentice Bryce

Student and instructor near machine

Student continues to learn in his youth apprenticeship. Bryce is a student at Watertown High School who is completing a youth apprenticeship in manufacturing at Sussek Machine Co. He credits his mother for helping him choose an area of focus. “She said it would be a good start to learn how to use inspection tools, […]