Right Track: Cultivating Saint Paul’s Future Workforce
For your company to stay relevant, it needs a workforce of the future.
Since 2014, the City of Saint Paul’s Right Track program has connected this workforce of the future to hundreds of organizations, government agencies, and businesses through internships and professional development opportunities.
Saint Paul youth are talented, diverse, and full of fresh, original ideas. Between their unique perspectives and energy, this up-and-coming generation is sure to take your business to the next level.
Apply to host an intern:
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About Right Track
Right Track is a youth mentorship and employment program led by the City of Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Department. We work with employers like you to host interns, pay for wages, and provide training and enrichment opportunities.
Right Track offers six- to nine-week internships for young people through two different programs: Saint Paul Youth Jobs One (YJ1) and Youth Jobs Two (YJ2). We are always looking for new employers to host interns for both programs.
YJ1: Building foundational job skills
Youth Jobs One focuses on supporting young people ages 14-19 who are looking to build their foundational job skills, helping them secure their first or second work opportunity to practice workplace basics. YJ1 primarily provides city-subsidized summer jobs in parks, libraries, and nonprofits. You can learn more about YJ1 here.
YJ2: Career exploration
Youth Jobs Two focuses on building on those foundational skills by providing paid internships to young people ages 16-21 at organizations and businesses of all kinds, from Children's Minnesota to the State of Minnesota. YJ2 internships generally include more project-based work. You can learn more about YJ2 here.
2025 Employers:
| 825 Arts A Pocket Full of Posies AbleNet Inc. Accenture LLP American Indian Family Center Animal Humane Society Arch Insurance ARTS-Us Baber Auto Repair Big Wonder Child Care Blaze Credit Union Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities Cadenza Music Capitol Region Watershed District Chicago Ave Fire Arts Center (CAFAC) Children's Minnesota City of Saint Paul: - Aquatics - Attorney's Office - Como Park Zoo and Conservatory - DSI - Fire Department - Human Rights & Equal Economic Opportunity - Mayor's Office - Office of Financial Empowerment - Office of Financial Services - Office of Technology and Communications - Parks and Recreation - Parks and Recreation Centers - Parks and Recreation CFPS Awakenings Program - Planning and Economic Development - Public Works - Saint Paul Public Library City of Saint Paul - Saint Paul Regional Water Services - Sprockets - Ward 1 Office - Councilmember Anika Bowie - Ward 7 Office - Councilmember Cheniqua Johnson CommonBond Communities Community Partners with Youth ComMUSICation Como Town Construction Careers Foundation Cookie Cart Dellwood Gardens Assisted Living and Memory Care Dog Days Inc East Side Learning Center Elite Repeat Elpis Enterprises Ever-Green Energy, Inc. Ezy Urgent Care Clinic Family Values For Life Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest Flava Cafe Friends of the Mississippi River Frogtown Farm Generation Next Great River Greening Greater Twin Cities United Way | Hallie Q. Brown Community Center Hazel Park Congregational United Church of Christ High School for Recording Arts Hmong Early Childhood Coalition Honsa-Binder Printer Inc. Indigenous Roots Culture Art Center Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul Irreducible Grace Foundation Its Our Neighborhoood Inc. Keystone Community Services Listen Up Youth Radio Lyngblomsten Care Center Marc Heu Patisserie Paris Metropolitan Airports Commission MIGIZI Communications Minnesota Children's Museum State of Minnesota: - Department of Administration-Facilities Management (Capitol Complex) - Department of Health - Department of Transportation - Pollution Control Agency - Public Utilities Commission Minnesota Tool Library Minnesota Voice Minnesota Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals My Digital Ladder Neighborhood House New Native Theatre North East Seniors for Better Living Rabata Ramsey County: - Assistance & Support - Communications & Public Relations - Community Corrections - Mental Health & Crisis Services - Property Management - Public Health - Service Centers - Attorney's Office - Libraries - Parks & Recreation - Parks and Recreation - Soil & Water Conservation Division - Policy and Planning - Public Works - Workforce Solutions | Rock What You Got Inc Roots for the Home Team Roseville Area Schools Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Saint Paul Port Authority Saint Paul Public Housing Agency Saint Paul Public Schools: - Agriculture Garden Project - Alternative Education - CDF Freedom Schools/Freedom Schools Express - Creativity Center for Learning & Leadership (CCLL) - Nutrition Services Saint Paul Urban Tennis Science Museum of Minnesota Scoopz LaCuchara Ice Cream SOL Of The Cities Sounds of Hope, Ltd. Spark-Y SPNN STAR House Storehouse Grocers The Canine Coach! The JK Movement The Salvation Army St. Paul Eastside Corps The Sanneh Foundation The Urban Village TopLine Financial Credit Union Towers of Power Transforming Generations Tree Trust TRIA Orthopedics Union Park District Council Urban Boatbuilders Urban Roots Visit Saint Paul Vivacity Tech PBC Warners' Stellian West Indies Soul Food West Side Farmers Market World Youth Connect Xcel Energy YMCA - Beacons Center Youth Leadership Initiative Youth Performance Company YWCA St Paul |
