Tasks:
● Preparing materials and conducting an
orientation seminar for the students
participating in the DAASI Summer internship
program
● Serving as a liaison between the students,
their internship employers, and their Thread
family to ensure that they are made aware of
the student’s employment progress during the
program
● Monitoring the student’s job attendance and
time logs and communicating that information
to YouthWorks, which pays the students for
up to 25 hours of work a week
● Facilitating paycheck distribution, conducting
site visits, and general management of the
program
Community Partner: Thread
Intern: Albert Chavesta
Site Supervisor: Frank Molina
What is Thread?
Thread uses a “family‐style” approach to foster the transformation
of both underperforming high school students and university‐
based Volunteers into self‐motivated, resourceful, and socially
aware leaders committed to a higher purpose of their own.
Returning as a peer mentor for my second year as part of the
Community Impact Internship Program and as an intern at Thread, I
knew what to expect going in. As such, I was able to use last year’s
experiences to dive head first into the work that I would be doing this
year and learning how to better manage a group of high school
students in their internships. The DAASI summer program places low‐
performing inner‐city high school students into internships around
Baltimore city including many non‐profits and labs on the medical
campus. The goal of these internships are for the students to develop
professional skills, have experiences that may be cultivated into a
potential career path, and for them to learn how to prepare verified
resumes. My primary tasks involved managing the students’ progress
and going on site visits to coordinate paperwork with Youth Works, the
government program that funds the students’ work. What I found most
rewarding about coming back for a second year to Thread was seeing
many of the students that I worked with last year, mature into
confident young adults and performing better academically in school.
My experience this summer has motivated me to look into potential
career paths that will help the community and motivate me to use my
talents to help push others towards success. ‐Albert
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