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A special visit and a special award! Click here for full story.On Wednesday, May 28, the New Avenues Ben & Jerry's PartnerShop got a visit from a very special guest. Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, celebrated his Portland visit by riding along with PDX Pedicab for a tour of Portland's Ben & Jerry's ice cream shops. At New Avenues' own Ben & Jerry's PartnerShop, he spent time talking with the youth working in the shop and encouraging people passing by to come in for a sweet treat.

In other scoop shop news, the PartnerShop was recently given the honor of being ranked in the top 10% of all Ben & Jerry's ice cream shops throughout the world! Twice each year, corporate representatives from Ben & Jerry's visit shops worldwide and evaluate them on staff knowledge, product taste, product look, customer service, cleanliness and inventory control. The ParnerShop scored a 96.89%, an impressive rating that confirms our scoop shop is one of the best of the best! Way to go scoopers!

Assistant Secretary Brent Orrell visits to learn more about our successful job training program. Click here for full story. In late March, New Avenues for Youth hosted the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration,  Brent Orrell.  Assistant Secretary Orrell met with staff of our job training program to learn first hand about the practices and successes of New Avenues school and employment programs.  The following week, the international employment policy think tank, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) also visited New Avenues.  As part of a three-state research project, the OECD sought to “meet with visionary local leaders involved in promising youth remedial initiatives” and learn about policies and programs enacted to improve school-to-work transitions and youth employment policies.  New Avenues is proud to be what the Department of Labor considers to be one of "the best of the best" national programs that assist youth as they make their transition to employment.

New Avenues for Youth initiated an in-depth evaluation of the economic impact of its programs by weighing expenditures against downstream social service and juvenile justice costs. To download the study, click here (pdf)

City Commissioner Sam Adams visits the New Avenues’ Ben & Jerry’s PartnerShop

Executive Director Ken Cowdery talks about the resiliency of homeless youth Click here for article

New Avenues opens Pacific Northwest’s first Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream PartnerShop http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2004/06/28/daily5.html