Fresh STart
About
By the Numbers 2023
17
Students enrolled throughout 2023.
10
Students were assisted in finding employment last year.
17
17% Average recidivism rate of graduates, compared to Baltimore City’s rate of 52%.
Shop Custom Products
Support Fresh Start’s student-run business by shopping their large selection of quality, hand-crafted wooden furniture and gifts. Every purchase will directly benefit our Fresh Start students and reward their hard work. A wide range of custom items are also available for home and office furniture and decor. Please contact Fresh Start, scheaton@gmail.com, to inquire about a custom order.
Locate Us
East Harbor Campus
802 S. Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD 21231
FRESH START
Fresh Start provides vocational, academic, and social skills development training services to out-of-school youth ages 16-19. As a result, we can help youth reduce barriers and obstacles that may advance youth into sustainable wage occupations, earning their high school diploma, and obtaining industry recognition credentials.
Fresh Start is designed to mirror the workplace by allowing participants to practice employment skills and behaviors and interpersonal skills that will assist them in all future endeavors. In addition to GED preparation classes, the program utilizes woodworking, life skills, job readiness, financial literacy, and technology as mediums to teach the skills necessary for success.
In Person Programming
Fresh Start students are fully in person, with enrolled students excited about shop building and learning in person. Enrolled youth can choose a track, either (academic or vocational). Youths enrolled in the educational track will focus more on obtaining their high school diploma, and youth enrolled in the vocational track will focus more on obtaining employment. Fresh Start has secured funding to offer youth bi-weekly stipends.