The nine-week-long paid internship is a five-year pilot co-sponsored by Cleveland Clinic and PNC Bank. It is an expansion of the Clinic’s existing summer internship program. PNC will fund the program and provide financial literacy to the participating students and their families, according to the report. The internship is named after the late Louis Stokes (D), a Cleveland native who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The program aims to give youths from Cleveland and East Cleveland experience in law, information technology, marketing, human resources and building operations for healthcare, according to the report.
“I can’t think of a more gratifying way of continuing my husband’s legacy of public service and his longstanding commitment to the youth of Cleveland than the establishment of the Cleveland Clinic Internship in his name,” Jay Stokes, Mr. Stokes’ widow, said in a statement. “Lou would enthusiastically support this ambitious job training initiative for our next generation of leaders.”
Participants will return to Cleveland Clinic every summer throughout high school to continue the learning experience. During the summer after graduation, students will have the opportunity to pursue additional training or full-time employment, according to the report.
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