Comm 2320
Basic Reporting for the School of Communication at ECU

With a rising unemployment rate and a declining economy, finding work has become a job in itself. The most vulnerable are those who have trouble finding work even in stable economic conditions. STRIVE is an organization that seeks to prepare the hardest-to-employ individuals for finding long-term work.
STRIVE stands for “Support Training Results In Valuable [...]

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The STRIVE youth program, or Project Center Stage, was a very interesting organization. It has a lot to do with STRIVE but they are also so different in many ways. They call it Project Center Stage because they want all eyes to be on the kids as their main focus of attention. [...]

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As Dominique clocked in for work, she hurried to the deli department located in Food Lion. Crisp, nicely creased khakis’, nice blue polo, and a name tag that read: Dominique. Her friendly personality escaped as she greeted customers with “Hello what can, I get for you today.”
Dominique is one of the 2,000 individuals that [...]

Filed under: 2007 Fall, 2009 Spring, Community Partners | 2 Comments »

STRIVE is a program that helps adults in the Greenville community learn necessary skills to enter the job force. My focus on the report was a current STRIVE student, Erica. Although Erica has only been in the program for a week, she had a lot to say about what she was learning and [...]

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Joyce Jones is the Executive Director of STRIVE as well as the Executive Director of LIFE of North Carolina. According to the Web site based out of New York “STRIVE, which stands for Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees, is a recognized innovative leader in job-readiness programs combining attitudinal training with fundamental job skills, [...]

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