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Ypsi program helps youth and adults build skills and confidence for careers in the trades
JAH'NIYA TREADWELL | THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2025
The Ypsilanti-based Trades Program for Youth and Adults is designed for thosewho want to learn hands-on skills, explore careers in the trades, and buildconfidence along the way.
This article is part of Concentrate's Voices of Youth series, which features stories written by Washtenaw County youth with guidance from Concentrate staff mentors. In this installment, student writer Jah'Niya Treadwell takes a look into an Ypsilanti-based program that prepares young people and adults for skilled trades careers.
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SARAH RIGG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025
Cassandra Vaughn, who co-founded Trades Programs for Youth and Adults with her husband Lawyer Vaughn, says she doesn't want to detract from local public schools' great work in promoting career and technical education. Rather, her nonprofit is looking to expand young people's ideas of the career possibilities open to them.
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