How the Program Works

• Some partnerships are simple one-time, one-class/school visits. Others involve periodic or regular visits to classrooms/schools or even semester or academic year-long collaborative ventures.
• Community partners may host individual students at their work place for work based learning/youth internships. Or, they may host a class field trip to demonstrate how classroom subject matter is directly applied in their jobs or hobbies. Click here to learn more about the Internship Pathways program.
• Community Partnerships refers reading and academic volunteers to district schools for year-long weekly one-on-one mentoring with students in grades 1-12.
• Anyone can suggest a partnership and lend a hand in forming them.
   

The Internship Pathways Program is Seeking Partners for 2021

 There are three ways a partner can help connect high school students to careers:

1. HOST-  a remote career-based youth internship at your business or organization
               (a 30 hour or a 15 hour experience split with another organization)
2. CHAT- with students during school lunchtime career visits, mentor during their internship, or present to a class
               (a 1-3 hour commitment)
3. LEAD-  a remote career tour at your workplace 
                (1-3 hour commitment)
   
   

Students are interested in gaining knowledge and experience in many career fields including: Agriculture, Construction, Computer Science, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Science, Engineering, Graphic Arts, Health Sciences, Journalism, Photography, Web Design, Videography, and many more!

We would like to thank the below community partners for connecting high school students to career thinking.

2019/2020 INTERNSHIP PARTNERS

• City of West Linn Parks & Recreation
• Clackamas River Basin Council 
• Clackamas Workforce Partnership 
• Engaging Local Government Leaders (Josh Fike)
• Kids First Pediatric Clinic
• Metro Native Plant Center 
• Oregon City Farmers Market 
• Oregon Institute of Technology 
• PAWs Animal Shelter
• Sundstrom Clinical Services
• Wilsonville Public Library 

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MENTORS

We would like to thank the below mentors for providing support and feedback to students during their internships. 

• Charlie Hyman Photography
• Corrie Coston Photography
• Kim Elliott Photography
• Greater Oregon City Watershed Council (remote video)
• Metro Recycling (remote graphic arts)
• Nancy Steele Photography
• The Nature Conservancy (remote graphic arts)

CAREER TOUR PARTNERS

We would like to thank the below partners for hosting a career tour of your business.

• Lam Research
• Portland General Electric

LUNCHTIME CAREER CHAT PARTNERS

We would like to thank the below partners for offering your time to chat with our students during upcoming lunchtime career chats. 

• Advance Sports & Spine
• Advance Dental Arts
• Hi-School Pharmacy 
• Providence Home Health

 CLASSROOM PARTNERS

We would like to thank the below partners for presenting to classes about careers.

• Clackamas County Water Environment Services
• Clackamas River Basin Council 
• Kaiser Permanente 
• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 

If you are interested in connecting high school students to career-based learning opportunities  please contact Laura Nappi, Internship Coordinator, (503)673-7000 ext 6348, email NappiL@wlwv.k12.or.us

Program Awards & Recognition
The West Linn-Wilsonville School District Community Partnerships Program has received the following awards and recognition:

• 1997 Business Education Compact School District Achievement Award (for best innovative curriculum enrichment volunteer program in the Portland-Northwest Oregon-Southern Washington Region)
• 2002 Business Education Compact School District-Business Award (shared with Mentor Graphics as best school-business collaborative venture program in the Portland-Northwest Oregon-Southern Washington Region)
• US Department of Education Northwest Region "Innovative Practices in Education" recognition
• Hundreds of articles have been published in The Oregonian, West Linn Tidings, and Wilsonville Spokesman newspapers about Community Partnerships events and programs
• Featured in several of Portland's KATU-TV school news broadcasts
• Many Partnerships Programs have been filmed for local access TV to share with the entire community
• Program coordinator has been a featured speaker at several regional educational curriculum enrichment conferences and school-business cooperation seminars