ETHM’s Pathways to Career Success Program is
a competency-based, in-school and community-concentrated career development model that will systematically prepare students to meet present and future workforce needs in Prince George’s County, Maryland (PGC). 

The Pathways to Career Success Program has been designed by Reverend Addison to provide students with life skills that prepare them to pass High School Assessments (HSAs), in order for them to graduate.  

Pathways to Career Success is the flagship program of the Youth Development and Empowerment Program (YDEP) Institute at Bladensburg High School (BHS), that began in 2006-2007 academic year.   Pathways to Career Success is being piloted under the umbrella of the PEACE (Promoting Educational, Academic and Character Excellence) program model. 

The specific goal of the Pathways to Career Success Program is to prepare students for the workforce and/or college by helping them achieve the following objectives:

ETHM’s 12-year experience in the progressive improvement of delivering systematic life skills development services to our County’s have culminated in the design of the Pathways to Career Success Program. Over many years, the constituent programs of the Youth Development and Empowerment Model (i.e., YCs, JFY, CRCs, FIAWO, and LEP) have each undergone successive iterations of improvement - by way of intensive evaluations, feedback, and analysis - leading directly to organizational enhancements of program, management, content, and delivery. The most successful and repeatable components of YDEM have been thematically integrated, and strategically adapted for the in-school context of the PEACE Model at BHS.  The Pathways to Career Success Program is the pinnacle of ETHM’s continual process improvement for curriculum development.

           
Participation in the Pathways to Career Success Program provides students with job readiness training, jobs, literacy enhancement HSA tutoring and tutoring in English, reading and math; career assessment testing that leads to career planning; internships; conflict resolution training with their parents; leadership training; and community service activities where they earn community service hours. These latter components are integrated into a specialized conflict resolution centers module—the Young Ladies of Distinction Club—which additionally incorporates etiquette and professionalism training for girls and their mothers. Partnerships with a diversity of businesses provide internships for students who desire to pursue trade careers.

This holistic career development approach provides students with the competence, confidence and competitiveness to enter into career fields that meet PGC workforce needs that result in students being economically self-sufficient.